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This was an axiom in videogames, and would be until humans invented true artificial intelligence.† (source)
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A questionable axiom: so often it's both.† (source)
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Moreover, as the ground thawed, his route turned into a gauntlet of boggy muskeg and impenetrable alder, and McCandless belatedly came to appreciate one of the fundamental (if counterintuitive) axioms of the North: winter, not summer, is the preferred season for traveling overland through the bush.† (source)
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It's a very old axiom, but do you believe the end can justify the means?† (source)
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He kept thinking about Bossie, bawling and bawling and bawling until she couldn't bawl anymore because she was dead, and another of those great axioms of Life on the Western Slope was just this: Dead cows don't bawl.† (source)
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The idea of "order from chaos" was one of the great Masonic axioms.† (source)
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Axiom: the best place to conserve your water is in your body.† (source)
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Unfazed, I presented my revelation that in the principles and theorems and axioms of plane geometry—these truths that stayed true across the universe—God had sent us a message.† (source)
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It became an axiom for me.† (source)
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Even in the matter of the species...Well, the two axioms of Darwinian theory—the continuity of nature and adaptable design—have never been validated by a single empirical discovery in nearly a hundred and fifty years.† (source)
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It was an axiom of his that any swelling in a woman's abdomen was a pregnancy until proven otherwise.† (source)
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The axioms of the few are shared by the many; the latter believe superstitiously what the former believe soberly.† (source)
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I always remember the regent's axiom: a leader, hesaid, is like a shepherd.† (source)
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The literal digestion of these instructions resulted in one of the most fantastical exhibitions of print-vending ever seen: fortified by his own unlimited cheek, and by the pious axioms of the exhortations that "the good salesman will never take no for his answer," that he should "stick to his prospect" even if rebuffed, that he should "try to get the customer's psychology," the boy would fall into step with an unsuspecting pedestrian, open the broad sheets of The Post under the man's nose, and in a torrential harangue, sown thickly with stuttering speech, buffoonery, and ingratiation, delivered so rapidly that the man could neither accept nor reject the magazine, hound him before a grinning† (source)
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But my mother-in-law taught me another axiom one day, when she was aggravated with her husband: "Obey, obey, obey, then do what you want."† (source)
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Yet his eventual importance to mankind was perhaps lessened by his large and complacent ignorance of all architecture save the types of houses turned out by speculative builders; all landscape gardening save the use of curving roads, grass, and six ordinary shrubs; and all the commonest axioms of economics.† (source)
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