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Axiom : Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise. -- E. M. Forster
Axiome: la haine du bourgeois est le commencement de la vertu. Axiom: Hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom. -- Gustave Flaubert
The Axiom of Choice is necessary to select a set from an infinite number of socks, but not an infinite number of shoes. -- Bertrand Russell
To choose one sock from each of infinitely many pairs of socks requires the Axiom of Choice, but for shoes the Axiom is not needed. -- Bertrand Russell
Axiom: you are a sea. Your eye- lids curve over chaos My hands where they touch you, create small inhabited islands soon you will be all earth: a known land, a country. -- Margaret Atwood
Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence. -- John Searle
Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat. -- Walt Alston
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically. -- Aneurin Bevan
This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting. -- Fernand Leger
It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly. -- John George Nicolay
The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we should look into contrary assumptions. -- Alonzo Church
You want at least 5% of the population being serious. That five, 6% of the population carries the rest of the people. You've heard that old axiom: 5% of the people pull the wagon; 95% are in it. -- Rush Limbaugh
There's an axiom I live by: 'There is no art without politics.' You either choose to engage it, or you choose political apathy. This ties in with ideas around real-time performance and feedback. -- Chris Jordan
As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and privacy can be stated in an axiom: the defense of privacy follows, and never precedes, the emergence of new technologies for the exposure of secrets. -- Jill Lepore
There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things. -- Gustave Flaubert
The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much from the folly of others, and from his own superiority, as he can. -- Moses Mendelssohn
Words are really powerful. I don't believe that axiom at all - words can absolutely hurt you. Words can wound. They can do a lot of damage. I think they can do way more damage than sticks and stones. I'll take sticks and stones. -- Mary-Louise Parker
We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals. -- Robert Caro
My axiom is, to succeed in business: avoid my example. -- Mark Twain
Summation of Leviathan: "The axiom, fear; the method, logic; the conclusion, despotism." -- Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper
It's an old axiom of mine: marry your enemies and behead your friends. -- Robert N. Lee
The institution of taxation rests foursquare on the axiom that somebody must rule somebody else. -- Frank Chodorov
The fundamental axiom, then, for the study of man is the existence of individual consciousness -- Murray Rothbard
The first axiom of the family vacation is that someone, possibly everyone, will get sick. -- Marni Jackson
Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. -- Ayn Rand
Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat. -- Walt Alston
There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married. -- Ouida
an axiom of sorcery: If you come to know yourselfno one else can know you -- Rodney Hall
Let this serve as an axiom to every lover: A woman who refuses lunch refuses everything. -- Enid Bagnold
The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence. -- Edward Abbey
There is a just Latin axiom, that he who seeks a reason for everything subverts reason. -- Epes Sargent
They say that loving eyes can never see, but that's a fool's axiom. Sometimes, they see too much -- Stephen King
It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear. -- Maxwell Maltz
I imagine as an axiom you could say that the better the play, the less "creativity" the director need exert. -- Edward Albee
It is an axiom nowadays that no bank fails for lack of capital; unprofitable lending is always the underlying cause. -- James Grant
Simplicity design axiom: The complexity of the information appliance is that of the task, not the tool. The technology is invisible. -- Donald A. Norman
This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting -- Fernand Leger
a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics. -- Maria Edgeworth
Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves. -- James A. Garfield
My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists - and in a single choice: to live. -- Ayn Rand
you may take it as an axiom that you cannot profit in Wall Street by continuously doing the obvious or the popular thing -- Benjamin Graham
AXIOM. â?? Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own. -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute also. -- Thomas Jefferson
This is not new: people do business with people they like, know and trust. Taking that axiom in to account, would YOU trust YOU? -- Beth Ramsay
We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man. -- Lynn Townsend White, Jr.
It is an axiom of political science in the United States that the sole means of neutralizing the effects of newspapers is to multiply their number. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
The demand that we love our neighbor as ourselves contains as an axiom the demand that we shall love ourselves, shall accept ourselves as we were created. -- Max Frisch
What we need to do is follow the axiom of World War II which was 'Loose Lips Sink Ships' and the media has really got to follow that. -- David Hackworth
It is an axiom of political life that you never raise expectations, whether in a political or military campaign, because your defeats are then magnified and your victories discounted. -- Charles Krauthammer
School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. -- Ivan Illich
...the mathematician uses an indirect definition of congruence, making use of the fact that the axiom of parallels together with an additional condition can replace the definition of congruence. -- Hans Reichenbach
Be guided by the axiom: There are no limits to the ability to contribute on the part of a properly selected, well-trained, appropriately supported, and, above all, committed person. -- Tom Peters
My fundamental axiom of speculative philosophy is that materialism and spiritualism are opposite poles of the same absurdity-the absurdity of imagining that we know anything about either spirit or matter. -- Thomas Huxley
There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they commit but never for the opinions they have. -- Harry S. Truman
Many successful people are no more talented than unsuccessful people. The difference between them lies in the old axiom that successful people do those things that unsuccessful people don't like to do. -- Harvey Mackay
Money does not pay for anything, never has, never will. It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services. -- Albert J. Nock
At first it seems obvious, but the more you think about it the stranger the deductions from this axiom seem to become; in the end you cease to understand what is meant by it. -- Bertrand Russell
Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature; not any thing framed to fill up empty cantons, and unncecessary spaces. -- Thomas Browne
It may safely be received as an axiom in our political system, that the state governments will in all possible contingencies afford complete security against invasions of the public liberty by the national authority. -- Alexander Hamilton
What government supports, government controls. This is an ancient axiom repeatedly ratified by experience. . . . Indeed, as is well known, acceptance of tax aid has led to the secularization of many church-related colleges and universities. -- Edd Doerr
There is a social injunction implied in the positivist and analyst methods. This social axiom is that :;:;:;:;:;:; We OUGHT to act in such a way that what IS true can be verified to be so. -- Jacob Bronowski
the old axiom that 'all power corrupts' has doubtful validity, because it derives from our neglect of Plato 's advice to find men carefully and train them by methods which make them fit for heroes. -- Oswald Mosley
The controversy as to whether socialism is possible has been settled by the fact that it exists, and it is a fundamental axiom of my philosophy, at any rate, that anything that exists, is possible. -- Kenneth E. Boulding
It is practically an axiom in psychiatry that precocious intellect combined with physical weakness can give rise to many unpleasant character traits - avarice, delusions of grandeur , and obsessive masturbation, to name just a few. -- Sam Savage
For Stirner, the social axiom of conservative, liberal, and socialist schools of political thought alike is in itself repressive: it disguises as potentially redemptive an order whose central function is inhibitory of the individual's interests. -- John Carroll

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