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It may be laid down as a maxim, that wherever a great deal can be made by the use of money, a great deal will commonly be given for the use of it; and that, wherever little can be made by it, less will commonly he given for it
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The living before the dead was the maxim, so he headed across his land towards the boys now obviously frightened out of their minds until another wind gust blew more embers behind the lads, now cutting off any chance of escape, the only sound was the deafening roar of grass and trees catching alight and two boys trapped in an ever degreasing circle of fire
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That the vineyard, when properly planted and brought to perfection, was the most valuable part of the farm, seems to have been an undoubted maxim in the ancient agriculture, as it is in the modern, through all the wine countries
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All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind
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The title of Mun's book, England's Treasure in Foreign Trade, became a fundamental maxim in the political economy, not of England only, but of all other commercial countries
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The province of Holland, accordingly, is said to follow this maxim at present
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The same maxim which would in this manner direct the common sense of one, or ten, or twenty individuals, should regulate the judgment of one, or ten, or twenty millions, and should make a whole nation regard the riches of its neighbours, as a probable cause and occasion for itself to acquire riches
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primary maxim and it was the cornerstone of all his
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The maxim is so perfectly self-evident, that it would be absurd to attempt to prove it
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We could now see that it was definitely not a child or even a body because in fact it was a German Maxim machine gun that the Sappers had snagged
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It may be laid down as a certain maxim, that all other things being supposed equal, the richer the church, the poorer must necessarily be, either the sovereign on the one hand, or the people on the other; and, in all cases, the less able must the state be to defend itself
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“Just remember the old maxim men ‘Ours not to reason why ours just to do or die’ we will be attacking tomorrow and because of the shortage of ammunition will take place in two parts
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In the obsevation or neglect of this maxim, consists what is called the equality or inequality of taxation
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(Turner didn"t seem to understand this basic maxim of intelligence: that you must sometimes cavort with the bad in order to adequately deal with the worse
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It would not be his prerogative and he simply does not have that power unless this legal maxim is proven wrong after hundreds of years of accepted fact
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So many leaders base their role in an organisation on the maxim ‘follow me I’m right behind you’, which relates more to a military type relationship as of a general to a private than a leader /disciple relationship
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” Reflecting on Pops’ meteoric rise in the broadcast industry, Broadcasting Magazine, in its issue of February 3, 1964, said: “If reverse logic can be applied to the maxim that idle hands are the Devil’s tools, then Roy H
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why Descartes is often considered the modern archetypal rationalist - his maxim "I think,
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In this process too, the maxim of satisficing
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There were instances in my other books where companies disregarded the maxim that the customer is always right
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It’s called a Max Alpha configuration—as slow as a plane can fly with maxim pitch-up attitude
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The maxim that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely was as true in those far off days as it is today
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But – Nidan searched his mind, and remembered the maxim of this
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In a sense, his experiments were the epitome of the maxim “try, try, again,” exemplified in this quote by Buckminster Fuller: “Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience
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Well, if his first maxim is true, then the second can’t be
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myself to your photo on the cover of Maxim? '
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The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few was the maxim she learned from the gestalt of minds
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Learning from one’s own mistakes is surely one of those aspects of life that some clever arse with stupid ears has made up a ridiculous maxim for, making one wish he were still alive to facilitate the mashing off his face into something hard and unyielding
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The promotion and belief in the idea of ‘Truth, beauty and goodness’ is the maxim he and his late wife lived by
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This has been my favourite maxim of my life:
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You will recall the old maxim ‘treat others as you would have them
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Their maxim is to let everybody alone
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Of course, their upbringing enjoins on them to live and die for the supposedly holy causes of Islam, and attendant to this maxim is the righteousness of aggression against all those perceived as antagonistic to their dogma
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Graved a maxim true and wise,
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To treat others as you want to be treated is an egocentric maxim
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It is from this model, self-modeling, that one extrapolates the maxim of self-care to other-care
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” she recited a maxim she had heard end many conversations
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When there is not only the absence of transparency, but also the punishment of whistleblowers, then horrescat emptor – buyer be scared – becomes the survival maxim of the incessantly suspect conned-sumer
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Then there is the ageold maxim of
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The maxim: ‘Do as you would be done by’ confirms the actions of our officer
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From those fear-triggered tribes arose an ancient religious ethical maxim, which survives unto today in both national and religious traditions, that none of its many divergent adherents, in its many forms of belief, follow: the military proscription on the limits of its retaliation, i
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41 His overriding maxim was that mercy should
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The rotations of one wheel mirror the rotations of the other, so the wheels and axle embody the Hermetic maxim, "as above, so below; as below, so above
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maxim izing the potential
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Third Maxim: "Never allow an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life
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Apparently, he subscribed to a maxim of our less than gentlemanly, modern, smart-assed attitudes : show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser
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This maxim unequivocally reveals the Creator’s true nature and Her
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Soon a maxim came into vogue, ‘Don is for girls, what Cleo is for boys!’ No wonder, Don attracted many a girl with his calm and cool ambience
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“You would have been wise to heed the maxim of ‘never steal from a thief’
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twist to an old maxim, the spirit is willing but the flesh is strong
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What was, was; and may the good that is to come be for all, and the evil for him who goes to look for it--your worship must know that the beginning the old folk used to put to their tales was not just as each one pleased; it was a maxim of Cato Zonzorino the Roman, that says 'the evil for him that goes to look for it,' and it comes as pat to the purpose now as ring to finger, to show that your worship should keep quiet and not go looking for evil in any quarter, and that we should go back by some other road, since nobody forces us to follow this in which so many terrors affright us
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experience and observation of our wise men of old; but the proverb that is not to the purpose is a piece of nonsense and not a maxim
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"Perhaps, then, you would bestow it as a reward on that person who wrote the ablest defence of your favourite maxim, that no one can ever be in love more than once in their life--your opinion on that point is unchanged, I presume?"
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to this maxim, I considered myself as so much in his power, that I
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who wanted it for a high tenor; but their maxim was, that it was an
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example to thousands, in confirmation of the maxim that women get
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Villefort's first impression was favorable; but he had been so often warned to mistrust first impulses, that he applied the maxim to the impression, forgetting the difference between the two words
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"There is," said he, at the end of his meditations, "a clever maxim, which bears upon what I was saying to you some little while ago, and that is, that unless wicked ideas take root in a naturally depraved mind, human nature, in a right and wholesome state, revolts at crime
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"I like not the principle of the natives, which teaches them to submit without a struggle, in emergencies that appear desperate," he said, while busied in this employment; "our own maxim, which says, 'while life remains there is hope', is more consoling, and better suited to a soldier's temperament
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For instance, these `disciples' assure us that when Jesus said, `Resist not evil', `If a man smite thee upon he right cheek turn unto him also the left', He really meant 'Turn on to him a Maxim gun; disembowel him with a bayonet or batter in his skull with the butt end of a rifle!' When He said, `If one take thy coat, give him thy cloak also,' the `Christians' say that what He really meant was: `If one take thy coat, give him six months' hard labour
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I speak the tongue of a race the acme of whose mentality is the maxim: time is money
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But if Master Tommy was headstrong Master Jacky was selfwilled too and, true to the maxim that every little Irishman's house is his castle, he fell upon his hated rival and to such purpose that the wouldbe assailant came to grief and (alas to relate!) the coveted castle too
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“It’s only numbers, cadet,” Hauptmann says, a favorite maxim
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Again, there was that other maxim of Peter's which had helped me when I had been a roadman
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They assured me that I was so perfectly to their taste, as to have but one fault against me, which I might easily be cured of, and that was my modesty: this, they observed, might pass for a beauty the more with those who wanted it for a heigh tener; but their maxim was, that it was an impertinent mixture, and dashed the cup so as to spoil the sincere draught of pleasure; they considered it accordingly as their mortal enemy, and gave it no quarter wherever they met with it
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And this was a maxim perfectly well understood by these polite voluptuaries, these profound adepts in the great art and science of pleasure, who never shewed these votaries of theirs a more tender respect than at the time of those exercises of their complaisance, when they unlocked their treasures of concealed beauty, and shewed out in the pride of their native charms, ever more touching surely than when they parade it in the artificial ones of dress and ornament
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It will add, too, one more example to thousands, in confirmation of the maxim, that women get once out of compass, there are no lengths of licentiousness, that they are not capable of running
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They knew Peter's maxim, that money was a good egg, and should be laid in a warm nest
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It was a maxim about Middlemarch, and
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I found that applying the “price of security” maxim by proxy—worrying about other people’s professional challenges—was much more easeful than applying it on myself
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This trader is still guaranteed to lose, so his maxim must be “Stay small
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Dow's famous maxim was “The averages discount everything,” by which he meant that the Industrial and Rail Averages reflected all knowledge about the economy
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In the last few years he has become a financial thriller writer, authoring The Twain Maxim, The Armageddon Trade and Kusanagi and has recently had his first non-fiction title 101 Ways To Pick Stock Market Winners published by ADVFN Books
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I wrote a book about mining fraud called The Twain Maxim but in reality my fantasy is much more credible than the stories that litter the London market these last few years
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“Spare the Rod and spoil the Child” was all most of ’em could think to say (when askt to discourse upon the Rearing of Babes); for most of ’em had not, sad to say, thought very much upon the Subject and nothing but this old Maxim came immediately to Mind
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In which our Heroine well and truly learns the Pyrate’s Craft, discovers the Joys of Sailing (as she hath previously known only the Pains), whereupon our valiant Pyrates meet their Match upon the Seas, and we disprove that old Maxim, namely: “Man cannot be rap’d
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There used to be an old Stock Exchange maxim: ‘Where there is a tip there is a tap
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It may be stated as a Wall-Street maxim that where manipulation of accounts is found, stock juggling will be found also in some form or other
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It was an established Wall Street maxim that capital for a new enterprise must be raised from private sources
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The plausibility of chart reading, in our opinion, derives largely from its insistence on the sound gambling maxim that losses should be cut short and profits allowed to run
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In so doing they ran counter to an old maxim of Wall Street, which runs: “Never convert a convertible bond
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I was reminded of a maxim that was frequently used at Quantico—All truths are half-truths and possibly not even that
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Again, learn this maxim: "Let the markets do what they want to do!" This book gives you the tools necessary to do just that and earn a great living from them
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We’ve all heard the maxim “Ask and you shall receive!” But if you ask better questions, you’ll get better answers! It’s the common denominator of all highly successful people
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The detestable maxim, Live on the enemy! produced this leprosy, which a strict discipline alone could heal
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Maxim would have access to everything that went through his server
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A hierarchy had been established, and Maxim was well aware of where he and his wife existed on it
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He had always known that this information would need to be pulled off the server and that there was danger in giving a man like Maxim access to a keyboard
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Gadai spun the chair so that Maxim was once again facing his wife and nodded
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“I want only the information I came for, Maxim
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Gadai had been through this scenario already with Maxim Durov and his patience had run out
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Empirical studies show that both individual investors and mutual funds tend to hang on to losing stocks (being more willing to sell small winners than small losers), against the trader maxim “cut your losses, let your profits run” and despite the tax advantage pointing to the opposite action
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But the explanation, in this case, can be found in the old stock market maxim: