This aphorism relies for its force, of course, on the transgressive nature of the behaviour it alludes to. |
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Many blogs feature in their heading a maxim, aphorism, saying, adage, axiom, saw, proverb, epigram or precept. |
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This recalls Oscar Wilde's aphorism that in matters of great import, style is always more important than substance. |
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The fact of the matter is that he has not put his money where his mouth is, to use the old aphorism. |
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Each aphorism or set of aphorisms, must be examined as a thought experiment. |
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Some 20 years later, in a famous aphorism Omnis cellula e cellula, Rudolf Virchow annunciated that all cells arise only from pre-existing cells. |
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Politics is the art of the possible, as the old aphorism puts it, and progress is usually incremental. |
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This pithy aphorism graphically tells us the sad state of affairs on the roads of India. |
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We all know the old aphorism that you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink. |
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Life, apparently, begins at 40, or so the old aphorism would have us believe. |
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Wilde, who could never resist an aphorism, frequently undermines the seriousness of his beliefs by his brilliant and paradoxical style. |
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My single aphorism, derived from anthropologist Alfred Gell, is that pattern, decoration, ornament, attaches people to things. |
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Holmes was a master of the flip aphorism, but one shouldn't confuse flip aphorisms with legal acumen. |
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He reminds me of the old aphorism that if you try to make a product idiot-proof, the world will make a better idiot. |
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I would also say that when public policy and the law is involved, there's an aphorism that says hard cases make bad law. |
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On one occasion the distinguished guests gathered with him round the table were excited at the prospect of hearing some new and sparkling aphorism fall from his lips. |
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This week Tom DeLay, a Texan who makes Powell look like a pinko, proved this aphorism in spectacular fashion. |
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Chairman Mao's aphorism encapsulates a lesson all foreign businesspeople should take to heart: the Chinese scent profit in chaos. |
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To observers of China, dazzled by its startling economic growth and ever-increasing power, Napoleon's aphorism has seemed irresistibly apposite. |
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My aphorism is that the state has no business in the computers of the nation. |
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In many ways this simple aphorism captures the fundamental wisdom of hundreds of millions of parents throughout the world. |
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Together with the following three, the lied Of Youth is a kind of aphorism, Chinese-style paintings drawn with a stroke of the brush. |
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He utters the aphorism in immaculate French, and judging from an overheard phone call, his Italian is almost as good. |
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As George Santayana reminded us in his famous aphorism, those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. |
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This aphorism illustrates what great opportunities applications for geomarketing and micromarketing measures have to offer. |
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Each aphorism is given first in Sanskrit, with word-meaning, followed by a commentary and explanation in English. |
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That aphorism by NYU professor Clay Shirky overstates the case, but only a little. |
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We must disabuse ourselves of this perhaps half-ironic but still telling aphorism. |
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In all these examples an aphorism as a general truth makes a powerful point in its present context, but it could also make good sense in a very different context. |
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In sync with the aphorism that money is the mother's milk of politics, the former Vermont governor seemed to have found a cash cow on the Internet. |
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He not only nourishes our souls with the aphorism he chooses in each of his reports, but he also ensures that the report is clear, detailed and balanced. |
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All I'm saying is so far, as far as seeing any evidence of wrongdoing goes, to quote an old aphorism, the elephants laboured and brought out a mouse. |
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Now, I must confess that I'm not a great fan of Pierre Trudeau, but we all know his most famous aphorism, that the state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation. |
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Whether such questions take the form of the Nietzschian aphorism or of a discussion between specialists in the biomedical sciences, there is always a sense of moral concern. |
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As the Congress prepares for its weekend chintan shivir, it needs to recollect the Shavian aphorism and reflect on it. |
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The secret of literary prophecy lies deep inside that aphorism. |
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One can scarcely imagine a case more attuned to that aphorism than the history and experience encapsulated by the mission of public service broadcasting. |
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Yet I must not violate the sense of our Aphorism by pretending for even a moment that this puny seizure of alphabetitis is peculiar to our own time. |
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