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65 examples of Maxim in a sentence

The maxim, "Know thyself" has been around since the ancient Greeks.
It's an important maxim that the unfamiliar is not the same as the improbable, and in fact, that's why we at Cambridge University are setting up a center to study how to mitigate these existential risks.
His finest accomplishment, though, may be his maxim, casting the search for truth beyond our senses and our current understanding as the pursuit of the beauty of the as yet unknown.
So you may have heard of that old maxim that you can sleep when you're dead.
It's like the old maxim of "you can tell somebody something and show them, but if they do it they really learn it."
The arc as a whole was enjoyable enough as I'm one to subscribe to the maxim that ANY Who is good Who, but at the same time it's inevitable that this will be compared to the Dalek episode of the previous series.
It's not often I feel compelled to give negative criticism of a film; after all I often feel the maxim, "if you don't have anything good to say don't say it at all," would be apt advice for the many naysayers we listen to everyday who nitpick at things we like.
you have to see all her half nude pictures for stuff magazine (maxim) she looks so good there!
It will grab your heart, it will make you want to live each day to the fullest, it will reinforce the importance of love within you, it will remind you of one simple fact: 'memento mori' is a maxim we all need to keep in mind, but there is another one that is so much more important: 'memento vitae' - remember that you are alive!
Given the power to destroy the planet and the peoples it was meant to safeguard, now threatens all with a maxim, "I was created to prevent war.
People in rich countries are undoubtedly familiar with the maxim that prevention is better than cure.
With the abolition of the estate tax, the Republicans would finally realize their long-held ambition of creating a dynastic plutocracy – a far cry from the “equality of opportunity” maxim the party once trumpeted.
In contrast, the social sciences adhere to the maxim that the best way to study humans is to interact with them, typically by getting them to do and say things that they might otherwise not.
That maxim is more than a catchphrase from the manifesto of the Democracy in Europe Movement – DiEM25, the group I just helped to launch in Berlin.
And now he had been consecrated as an official Jew, seeming to have forgotten the chilling maxim from Pirkei Avot (“Ethics of the Fathers”): “Seek not undue intimacy with the ruling power.”
But Donald Trump is testing that maxim.
Russia's center/right seems to have forgotten the old maxim that, when in trouble, politicians should hang together, lest they hang separately later.
The multi-billion-dollar global health industry appears to have turned Cicero’s maxim on its head, focusing instead on “giving health to women.”
This maxim was not applied in Libya, either, such that the initial reports of a potential massacre of hundreds of thousands of people in Benghazi has since come under sustained and credible attack.
Europe’s leaders should adopt that maxim as their motto: This is not the time for more Europe; it is a time for a Europe that fulfills its mandate.
On one hand, it illustrates the maxim that “all politics is local”: parties are deeply rooted in national traditions, and pan-European groupings are only loose, non-influential federations.
Under Putin, it seems, de Maistre’s maxim has received a new lease on life.
In a new challenge to de Maistre’s maxim, almost 200 young businessmen overcame the fear inspired by Khodorkovsky’s fate and donated funds to Navalny’s campaign.
The maxim “grow or go” will be replaced with “digitize or disappear.”
So the world must now ponder that old Latin maxim qui tacet consentere videtur – silence means consent – and ask itself if it is wise to quietly consent to Putin’s construction of a lawless energy superpower.
Germany today may twist his maxim: monetary diplomacy has become the extension of war by other means.
With the wisdom of age, I now concede the maxim of the occasional software engineer: motion is not progress.
It is this grim history that makes China’s current disregard for Deng Xiaoping’s maxim that China “disguise its ambition and hide its claws” so worrying for Asian leaders from New Delhi to Seoul and from Tokyo to Jakarta.
Today, his maxim appears to encapsulate the fate of a number of the world’s richest countries.
Virtuous VictualsCAMBRIDGE, MA – The maxim “you are what you eat” has defined dietary thinking for hundreds of years.
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