Sample Sentences for
maxim
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    Maxims of Baloo  (source)
    Maxims = short sayings that express general truths or principles
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    They soon progressed beyond maxims to applied practice.  (source)
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    Like some of those who reached out to Luma for advice, I would sometimes press her to explain her philosophy, to attach words and maxims to the deeds in order to provide a framework for others who hoped to replicate the kind of program she'd created.  (source)
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    "It's only numbers, cadet," Hauptmann says, a favorite maxim.†  (source)
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    Nations ignore rules and maxims that, in their very nature, run counter to the necessities of society.  (source)
    maxims = short sayings that express general truths or principles
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    I'll take tables five and six; Maxim can take tables seven and eight.†  (source)
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    My toast is one of those maxims so dear to our hearts: 'Business makes progress!†  (source)
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    In fact, he had always been a living example of the maxim, "Clean as you go."†  (source)
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    In his History of the United States, Webster wrote, "The most perfect maxims and examples of regulating your social conduct and domestic economy, as well as the best rules of morality and religion, are to be found in the Bible."†  (source)
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    Amy's basically exploiting the sociopath's most reliable maxim.†  (source)
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    I have had maxims and verses flung at me all day and I can endure them no more.†  (source)
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    The same thought was expressed in the Middle Ages in the maxim: credo quid absurdum.†  (source)
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    I had a picture of Mrs. Willard, with her heather-mixture tweeds and her sensible shoes and her wise, maternal maxims.†  (source)
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