#maxim

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you. ↗

— Wayne Dyer

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In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. ↗

— George Eliot

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Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man. ↗

— Richard Whately

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On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

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To maximize our potential to enhance our health and our knowledge, we should remain open to new understanding and evolving technology or resources that might inspire a change in our approach to these important questions. ↗

— Samuel Wilson

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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly. ↗

— Andre Gide

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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere. ↗

— Maxim Gorky

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There are very few groups that really stay together. The leaders of groups make enough money to be able to afford to work a maximum of 35-40 weeks a year. ↗

— Norman Granz

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Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release. ↗

— Germaine Greer

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