That's a perfect aphorism coming from a college football coach.
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The aphorism is apt for people carrying lots of debt.
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It unfolds with a mix of aphorism, fantasy and myth.
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The purpose of the aphorism is to bring unexpected perspective.
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They knew the sentiment, if not the specific grandmotherly aphorism.
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There was also a fortune cookie–worthy aphorism about keeping grudges.
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We soon learn that the aphorism is Mr. Friedman's favorite form.
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Ms. Lerner-Miller says it's more complicated than a single aphorism.
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"I sit high and see far" is the appropriate Russian aphorism.
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When you're accustomed to privilege, the aphorism goes, equality feels like oppression.
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Or just an apropos aphorism for Wakanda's climactic embrace of internationalist foreign policy?
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There is a medical aphorism that says, ''Nobody is dead until warm and dead.
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RARELY has the aphorism "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" been more apt.
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To update Lord Ismay's aphorism, NATO now needs Germany to be up, not down.
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To steal a medical aphorism, everyone heard hoofbeats and thought zebras instead of horses.
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George Balanchine's aphorism "Ballet is woman" never had the ring of a feminist statement.
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She's a reminder of the aphorism that talent is universal, but opportunity is not.
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Back at work, investors might usefully apply this aphorism to the fate of the dollar.
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Out of nowhere, the aphorism hit me, and I surprised myself by bursting into tears.
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The cruel aphorism attributed to former Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin has too often proved true.
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" But that somewhat stale aphorism doesn't accurately capture the divergent nature of the "three Americas.
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But their prospects should still be bright— if they can master the art of the aphorism.
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But if we adopt this aphorism we might lead our strategy on migration the wrong way.
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The aphorism about perfect being the enemy of the good feels realer than ever around holiday time.
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Buyer beware is an age-old aphorism that rings all the more true in the internet era.
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Bob starts on his usual spree of aphorism, but Whitman is having none of his vague crap.
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The aphorism "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" could cost the Democratic presidential candidates severely.
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Sounding like an almost familiar aphorism, the isolated and allusive phrase captures the spirit of the exhibition well.
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Unlike the sequential novel (so appropriately condemned by Breton) the aphorism in Cioran's hands seemed to spontaneously ignite.
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" Dr. Cannon recalled the aphorism by José Narosky, the Argentine writer: "In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.
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Information may want to be free, as an aphorism had it in the early days of digital media.
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In the old days of policymaking by aphorism—give a man a fish, feed him for a day!
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Nowhere is this aphorism clearer than in the cases of the post-9/11 conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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There's an old aphorism in U.S. politics that Republicans insist government doesn't work, then get elected and prove it.
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This is why an aphorism like "you cannot impeach somebody who is doing a great job" can be dangerous.
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Like we even have that aphorism around 'you should teach a man to fish, not give them a fish.
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We are taking the old aphorism of "you will not win votes you do not ask for" to heart.
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On reflection, the overused Gretzky aphorism atop this column minimizes the danger of ignoring that advice regarding COVID-19.
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" DiCicco's coaching style was summarized in an aphorism attributed to Hamm: "Coach us like men, treat us like women.
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In my travels, I often find that the aphorism "less is more" holds true as it relates to technology.
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"The court finds its guiding principle in Yogi Berra's aphorism, 'It's déjà vu all over again,'" Judge Boasberg wrote.
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The aphorism is true, in the sense that a leisurely stroll around the block won't do much for your biceps.
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The value of that aphorism has just been shown by a discovery made at Qa' Shubayqa, in north-eastern Jordan.
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As he tells us in his "Note," he came to the aphorism because he felt it was cleansed of detritus.
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"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" is an aphorism made popular by Carl Sagan, the legendary planetary scientist and science popularizer.
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But as Benjamin Disraeli said, "England does not love coalitions", an aphorism confirmed by the recent one under David Cameron.
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Her epigrammatic verse is spare, the offspring of classical aphorism (if you're feeling generous) and the language of self-help.
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Like the centrality of money in politics, Trump's campaign will test another old aphorism -- there's no such thing as bad publicity.
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Yet business leaders who recall the French aphorism that nothing lasts like the provisional will be reassured by the white paper.
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I do think as an aphorism it is correct, but what I say for me is that art is finishing things.
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The traditional aphorism should probably be recast as when China sneezes or when emerging markets sneeze, the world catches a cold.
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There's an old saying that you can't con a con man, but Trump's presidency is putting that aphorism to the test.
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One can only hope he film doesn't prove the most famous aphorism attributed to Barnum: "There's a sucker born every minute."
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Here, then, is one possible charting of the "You hate to see it" course: Its headwaters were a sports commentary aphorism.
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But adherence to the aphorism isn't any consolation for the struggling bureau and doesn't remove the tarnish from its damaged reputation.
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J.C. Count on Aimee Mann for the aphorism that quietly twists the knife in the middle of a seemingly sympathetic ballad.
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I am no fan of his work but Sun Tzu's aphorism that "tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat" seems apt.
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This aphorism is a pretty good definition of what "secularism" has come to mean—the not being bound by any moral limitations.
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I don't want to start with Larkin because Josephine Rowe's debut novel, "A Loving, Faithful Animal," makes an ocean from his aphorism.
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A Twitter hashtag — #GorsuchStyle — is devoted to mocking his tendency to follow a crisp aphorism with a plodding explanation of its meaning.
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Shlesinger: It's more the realization that saying you can't please everybody isn't just a clever aphorism you put in an Instagram post.
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And on the opposite coast, Dick's reputation is so well known that "everybody has an Andy Dick story" is an LA aphorism.
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Indeed, half the show's appeal is its location — a word that, when repeated thrice, forms the chief aphorism of the real estate business.
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We even coined an aphorism for it — garbage in, garbage out — but somewhere over the past few years, that truth has subtly lapsed.
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Churchill's aphorism, "If you are going through hell, keep going," is as interesting for what it doesn't say as for what it does.
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To repurpose an aphorism often applied to Brazil: It has the majority of the future, and if current trends continue, it always will.
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William Goldman's aphorism that "in Hollywood, no one knows anything" remains as true in the digital age as it did in the analog.
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It sounds great, but actually when you examine it, it's a way of defining an entire people with an easy kind of aphorism.
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Poetry already has much in common with the aphorism, using structure, rhythm and metaphor to say something essential in a deceptively simple way.
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Elsewhere in Slight Exaggeration you consider the aphorism as a literary mode — in particular you take up Emil Cioran and his pitiless aphorisms.
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In classic style, the play introduces each as she arrives, spouting a bright, brittle aphorism or offering a capsule preview of her character.
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The aphorism "you can't please everyone" is doubly applied when the basis of an audience's enjoyment is their personal interpretation of fictional worlds.
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He may, like most writers, aspire to aphorism ("envy being best understood as empathy gone wrong"), but, by the nature of its brevity, aphorism is evidence-free, and what Amis enjoys most—outside those priestly moments of Bellow recitation—is offering the proof of things: opening up the patient, putting the organs on the table, and taking a poke at the evidence.
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Nobody, the aphorism goes, is elucidating anything particularly painful or ugly; bad moods or breakups or mental breakdowns don't make it to the feed.
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I humbly suggest, then, an alternative aphorism for shoppers: when you see a good product that you want and can afford, just buy it.
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" I've always like Yeats's aphorism that, "Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.
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What is the sound, what is the sound … Philosophers like Simone Weil, E.M. Cioran and Friedrich Nietzsche used the aphorism to reveal deep truths.
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Ms. Smythe, in the Hudson Valley, cited an aphorism that women need to be asked to run several times before they actually consider it.
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"Will Rogers was never proven wrong," said Mr. Scott, invoking Rogers's oft-cited aphorism that, as a Democrat, he belonged to no organized party.
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It may just be the "smart people can be dumb" aphorism, but when applied to people who can actually effect so much change, it's scary.
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After years covering the Balkans (which, in the famous aphorism, "produce more history than they can consume locally"), he moved on to international organized crime.
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That may still bring to mind the aphorism of Peter Thiel, a Silicon Valley grandee, about having been promised flying cars and getting 140 characters.
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In Philly, he embodies the "leadership by example" aphorism that's powerful enough to establish selfless principles in a setting desperate for that type of guidance.
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Matt Bevin alluded to Thomas Jefferson's famous aphorism about the need to periodically water the tree of liberty with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
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I recently discovered Aphorism, a New York based brand specializing in vegan skin care, and decided to put their Night Is Young oil to the test.
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Sausages bearing the names of national oligarchs are draped over the garden fence, in an apparent nod to an old Hungarian aphorism that mocks the wealthy.
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" Or, if you prefer your aphorism a bit more down-home, Mark Twain captured the same ethos: "I didn't have time to write a short letter.
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But I can teach him one famous aphorism about what the true job of the news media is: To comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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Everything from Medicare for All to polling, to sexism, to AOC, to the lockstep consistency, to some weird aphorism about timing have been suggested as explanations.
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"An updated framework for supply-side tax cuts would apply President Ronald Reagan's great aphorism: Trust, but verify," he wrote for the right-leaning news outlet.
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She starts off nasty and allusive, confusing you with bits of history you don't know, then curdles the thought into something between an aphorism and a punchline.
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Taken together, these facts and others make clear that the aphorism attributed to former Speaker Tip O'Neill (D-Mass.), "All politics is local," just isn't true anymore.
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The flaw in the aphorism that wage growth is the result of profit growth is the assumption that employees have the leverage necessary to secure wage increases.
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"The crime is what you did, it's not who you are" is an aphorism of anti-incarceration activists, and this perspective enlivens almost all the reformist literature.
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"The usual aphorism is: 'Your password should be secret, but 'secrets' make really bad passwords' — especially when they are just discoverable or guessable facts," Mr. Muffett wrote.
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That's probably the best-known aphorism from the Stock Trader's Almanac, an annual compilation of dates, statistics and advice for investors first published in 19503 by Yale Hirsch.
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Thankfully, all that is about to change, because the Internet has finally listened to our collective prayers and delivered unto us the deepest, most insightful aphorism ever conceived.
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But somewhere along that road with the Instapoets, aphorism got confused with affirmation — those things you tape onto your mirror to remind yourself not to text your ex.
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Lisicky does not explicitly lay out the feeling of a long friendship, he does not try to essentialize it to a paragraph or an aphorism — how could he?
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As Vanessa Friedman writing for the New York Times put it: These women, stunning in their sparkly unitards, proved that "dressing your age" has become a meaningless aphorism.
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In the case of "Crossfire Hurricane," Hanlon's razor -- an aphorism for never attributing to malice that which can be adequately summed up by stupidity or incompetence -- seemingly applies.
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Conservatives are often fond of La Rochefoucauld's famous aphorism that "hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue," and so tend to downplay hypocrisy as a sin.
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But a more recent piece of research, by Yang Wang, Benjamin Jones and Dashun Wang of Northwestern University, in Illinois, suggests Matthew's verse is not the only relevant aphorism.
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What I think the admiration points to is the possibility that malapropism can be recognized as a form of cleverness rather than stupidity, as a better form of aphorism.
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The other note said "When there's a will there's a way," an aphorism that Einstein definitely did not come up with, and thus sold for a considerably smaller $240,000.
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Over the past decade, Republicans across the country have tried to prove this aphorism right by passing a wave of restrictive voting measures at the state and local level.
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As the aphorism goes, it takes money to make money, and according to numerous studies, including one from Babson College on VC investment, women are not getting the money.
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Aside from Napoleon's prescient aphorism, about 99.9% of all businesses in the country are classified as small and medium enterprises, according to a recent study from the UK government.
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Mr Gonzalez says he particularly admires the work of Mies van der Rohe, the last director of the school, who is known for his aphorism that "less is more".
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Here, Braverman uses photos of dogs — and real talk about what makes them all so beautifully different — to turn a trite aphorism into something genuinely moving and broadly relatable.
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But it isn't easy to stomach his habit of putting down everyone he sees with a grandiose aphorism, and of addressing a supposedly Native American actress as Pocahontas and Minnehaha.
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A growing ecosystem to support new entrepreneursThe regular explanation for the change in mindset in Israel is the oft-repeated industry aphorism: From start-up nation to scale-up nation.
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"There is a simple aphorism that says ask questions, and if you tell, tell stories," explains Maurice Hall, PhD, associate professor and chairperson for the department of communication at Villanova University.
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Another aphorism with a similarly nihilistic vibe—"Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse"—morphed from the lyrics of a 1955 hit by Faron Young, nicknamed the Hillbilly Heartthrob.
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" Voltaire, anti-Semite and sage of the Enlightenment, is credited with the aphorism "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
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Dick jokes get the top billing, of course, followed by that aphorism often misattributed to Otto von Bismarck: that it is better to avoid seeing how laws, like sausages, are made.
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" To underline his point that government may not be able to help residents as much as they might hope or expect, he turned to a familiar aphorism: "Preparedness equals self-sufficiency.
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Hussle was a more delightful doppelgänger, borrowing his nom de plume from Nipsey Russell, the black comedian known as the "poet laureate of television" whose comedy reveled in aphorism and rhymes.
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Wit is, typically, a conservative genre: it summarizes what's known; to condense a truth to an aphorism, you need to be fairly certain that your listener will accept it as a truth.
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The Trump gang is putting to the test Michael Kinsley's old aphorism that "the scandal isn't what's illegal, it's what's legal," instead flouting the law and its overburdened enforcement mechanisms, as Rep.
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The aphorism "it's about the journey, not the destination" comes to mind, and indeed, with high-stakes innovation competitions designed to encourage pursuit of extra-planetary exploration, it seems like an apt statement.
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You "can't trust the private sector to protect the public interest" was the city planner Edward Logue's most emphatic aphorism on the subject, and it is one that has taken on new life.
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Bookshelf The aphorism "You can't fight City Hall" was refuted in New York as far back as the mid-17th century after William Kieft, the new director general of New Netherland, banned smoking.
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" The introduction proposes, with the playfulness and precision of aphorism, that "there is no good answer to how to be a woman; the art may instead lie in how we refuse the question.
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According to a popular aphorism that may or may not have originated with Albert Einstein, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome is the definition of insanity.
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"I had fortuitously avoided the fate of most politicians, captured in the aphorism 'There is no comfortable end to a political career; only death or disgrace,'" Ms Zille boasted in her autobiography of 2016.
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In the opening moments of Sword Of Destiny, Shu Lien frets over an aphorism that says a scholar will be remembered for five years after death, but a swordsman's legacy will linger for 20.
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" McCrae can pivot — almost as Frank Bidart pivots — from plot into aphorism and emblem: "The wheel of history turns in the gut / of the white man but the Negro is strapped / to the wheel.
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An aphorism has a way of bending you to its hidden truth, changing your way of thinking not with a 20-page document of well-reasoned arguments, but with just a sentence or two.
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Mr. Roberts's full quote was, "In Dodge City, Kansas, they say a horse divided against itself cannot stand," putting a Kansas twist on an aphorism made iconic by a former Senate candidate from Illinois.
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Yet the comparative banality of Mirvis's post-religious life reminds me of another Jewish aphorism: "If you are going to eat pork," as the Yiddish proverb goes, "let the juices run down your beard."
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Gallo kind of sounds like Michael Stipe on "It's the End of the World," except here, Gallo rattles off all of the shit tearing us apart before easing us with his oddly placating aphorism.
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Taking to heart the aphorism that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, the PPD has continually courted the more extreme members of the Republican Party, stoking their fears of a Hispanic Democratic state.
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" In the aftermath of the 9/303 terrorist attacks, President Bush gave this famed aphorism a consumerist spin when he told airline employees, "When [the terrorists] struck, they wanted to create an atmosphere of fear.
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Therefore, here it comes, Kim Jong-un's Aphorism No. 63548-J: To the winner go the spoils, while the loser is bound to a kitchen chair in a bean field and atomized by cannon fire .
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The aphorism "Easy enough to do with your eyes closed," simply doesn't apply to our technology anymore, because no matter how intuitive the operating system, the very nature of the hardware demands your full visual attention.
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An aphorism credited to the English social scientist Richard Titmuss holds that "programs for the poor are poor programs," meaning they are unlikely to win enough public or political support to be well-funded and resilient.
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Nowhere is that aphorism better illustrated than Douglas County, Colorado, where education politics and an ongoing constitutional fight over educational choice have converged to create perhaps the most consequential school board election in modern American history.
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The "see it, say something" aphorism deployed in New York City after 9/11, mostly for the purpose of registering lone packages in mass transit, might be broadened to include getting people the help they need.
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H.P. Lovecraft's aphorism, "From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent," applies to the full-page advertising campaign that pharmaceutical giant Purdue Pharma ran in many of the nation's major newspapers late last year.
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Macau's government and "people from all walks of life are well aware that 'if the family lives in harmony, all affairs will prosper,'" he said, referring to Macau's official status and using a familiar Chinese aphorism.
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It calls to mind another aphorism from Keynes about economists being at their best as "humble, competent people on a level with dentists", using their technical skill to solve pressing problems within a limited area of expertise.
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Indeed, his output as a designer was rivaled only by his outpourings as a master of the telling aphorism — so much so that his quotations were collected in a book, "The World According to Karl," in 2000.
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The technical definition of an aphorism is a "pithy observation that contains a general truth," and it is the pith that gets us more than the truth; it is the tone that seals the writer to the words.
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Mario Cuomo's famous aphorism that, "You campaign in poetry; you govern in prose" to his son, CNN moderator Chris Cuomo, arguing that while Sanders has inspired votes she was the one with the mettle to succeed as president.
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Roaming from Hanoi to Kerkyra to Manhattan, Xie's language veers between precise imagery, with the details of the world rendered in intimate close-up, and elegant aphorism, zooming out to take in a universal truth from a wide shot.
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Instead of crashing the Canadian immigration service's website, e-Residency allows you to (much faster and more cost-effectively): The late Speaker Tip O'Neill's (D-Mass.) aphorism that "all politics is local" is as true now as it ever was.
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The aphorism has come back into vogue, or at least into the cultural conversation, because we are currently enmeshed in short-form writing, which is flourishing on Twitter and in the proliferation of political sound bites, both true and false.
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Sinosphere BEIJING — "The trouble with committing political suicide is that you live to regret it," Christopher F. Patten, the last British colonial governor of Hong Kong, wrote about Britain's vote to leave the European Union, attributing the aphorism to Winston Churchill.
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One of the many important lessons of "To Pixar and Beyond" is a kind of corollary to Goldman's famous aphorism noted above: knowing what you don't know in creative businesses is a necessary but insufficient condition to not screwing them up.
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His literary inclinations were never far from his visual expression: On a 1948 canvas titled after Nietzsche's aphorism "Heresy and Witchcraft," a blocklike figure surrounded by circular forms (heads?) stands above the printed phrase "L'argument de l'isolement" ("The argument of isolation").
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" In 1898, the Dictionary of Phrase and Fable noted that Friday is considered an "unlucky day" in Spain, and cited yet another rhyming aphorism: "But once on a Friday ('tis ever they say), / A day when misfortune is aptest to fail.
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If Russia followed neither of those paths, Mr Gaidar said, it would have to look to the east—an alternative he summed up in an aphorism of the ancient Chinese statesman Shang Yang: "When the people are weak, the state is strong".
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What's more, the saint here, though given pride of place in the origin story of the aphorism traversing this puzzle, apparently recorded something altogether quite different: "L'enfer est plein de bonnes volontés ou désirs" ("Hell is full of good wishes or desires").
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During those years, I spoke with CFPB employees ranging from senior leadership to midlevel lawyers to junior communications staffers, and you couldn't make it three minutes into those conversations without getting some aphorism from Warren, or anecdote about Warren, quoted back to you.
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Although Holzer's much reproduced aphorism, "Abuse of power comes as no surprise," has recently been adopted as a slogan for the #MeToo movement (specifically by the activist group We Are Not Surprised), the artist's practice has historically been one of authorial self-effacement.
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There's an aphorism about American political opinion, dating back to research from the early 1960s, that holds that we're philosophically conservative but operationally liberal — we say we prefer smaller government, but in practice we support programs that benefit us and even some that don't.
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Such is the temper of what may be the most openhearted and unproblematic passage in all of his writings—the closing aphorism of "Dawn," perhaps his most beautiful book: All these bold birds who fly out into the wide, widest open—it is true!
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He told NBC News he did not realize that the quote - "It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep" - was associated Mussolini but said it did not matter because it was a good aphorism all the same.
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" The book traffics in a relatively high-end brand of lovelorn aphorism: "We're never as formidable as when we're in love and our love is reciprocated"; "there's no conversation in the world as pathetic and more destined for failure as two people trying to gauge their love.
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While proverbs and adages (cousins of the aphorism, to be sure) often lose their authorship and become orphaned—think about how many times someone has mentioned "an old Irish saying" without knowing anything about its actual provenance—aphorisms stay tethered to their creators, dragging their voices along through history.
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The book that marked our entry into the age of the aphorism, and not in a great way, was David Shields's "Reality Hunger," a 2010 collection of age-old aphorisms, inspirational quotes seemingly cribbed from Reader's Digest and sentimental scribbles from Mr. Shields himself, all tossed together without attribution.
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Rushkoff has mastered the lecture game too—he is often invited to speak to many of the same tech executives he pillories—and has a knack for the tweetable aphorism ("The more you touch your phone, the smarter your smartphone gets about you and the dumber you get about it.").
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When Robin Happel gave her commencement speech at Fordham University's ceremony for graduating seniors in the Bronx on Friday, she hit all of the rhythms you'd expect: a quick joke about the stress of finals week to lighten the mood; a familiar aphorism from the university's president, Father Joseph McShane.
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The hokiness of the premise is bound up with another problem: At a time when the "whitewashing" of Asian narratives and roles is a hot issue, "Iron Fist" is about a white man who spends a lot of time in a dojo and has a Buddhist aphorism for every occasion.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE added a new and, for him, potentially dangerous aphorism this week, when asked about impeachment.
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Kim Jong-un, contemptuous of the International Jealous Front's quibbles about his nuclear-weapons program and his success in having his fat-boy half brother Kim Jong-nam massaged with a poison face rub in a busy air terminal, defiantly issues Aphorism No. 63539-J: Hooligan traitor saboteurs are more easily squashed by organophosphate than by vinegar or honey.
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But I hope that one day we'll discover that the aphorism we tossed about with abandon has finally been proven false: that our country is, in fact, ready to elect a president who has posed naked, because our country has finally accepted that the division between competent women and sexual women is one that does not exist.
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Besides, the proliferation of antibodies that made him think of POEMS in the first place is seen in up to 10 percent of patients with C.I.D.P. He cited the aphorism leveled at all who suspect "zebras": An unusual manifestation of a common disease is much more likely than even a classic presentation of a rare disease.
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" It was both a perfectly shareable aphorism and a poignant reminder of his own experiences with losing loved ones, which are real and terrible and which were also outlined in a Facebook video that blew up to the point that the fact-checking site Snopes felt compelled to put together an entry on it, judging it to be "Mostly True.
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In an ideal world there wouldn't have been a Logan Verrett spot start in there, but spot starts happen, and if they had had them in Samuel Johnson's day, his aphorism would be that a spot start is like a dog walking on its hind legs—it is not done well, but you are surprised to find it done at all.
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A: Kim Jong-un counters this impudent challenge by the turd-tossing camp with Aphorism No. 63541-J: The enemy of my friend is exposed as the friend of my enemy, has already been fed into a cement mixer, and is now a speed bump in the pavement of the parking lot behind the Kim Jong-un Academy of Hairdressing, in Pyongyang.
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Her early essays are addressed to the ten or twenty people in the English-speaking world who would not blanch at sentences like these, from her essay on the philosopher E. M. Cioran: One recognizes, in this Roumanian-born writer who studied philosophy at the University of Bucharest and who has lived in Paris since 1937 and writes in French, the convulsive manner characteristic of German neo-philosophical thinking, whose motto is: aphorism or eternity.
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