#maxim

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. ↗

— Aristotle

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Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform. ↗

— Julian Assange

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The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice. ↗

— William Booth

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We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways. ↗

— Edward Coke

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Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins. ↗

— Franz Kafka

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May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

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The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity and then of aging decline. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

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In the 1980s, there were occasions when it made sense to say, 'it is too difficult to maximize the likelihood function, and besides if we do, it will blow our model out of the water.' ↗

— Thomas J. Sargent

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The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it. ↗

— Thomas J. Sargent

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