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I used to live by the axiom that it's easier to warm up in the cold than cool off in the heat.
The film is above all a mediation on the optimistic axiom that ‘life goes on’.
There's an old axiom that ‘Duty is heavier than a mountain, death is lighter than a feather.’
In few other areas of the law is there greater truth to the axiom that ‘justice delayed is justice denied.’
We all know the old axiom that writers are, by their very nature, liars.
It is an axiom that every research establishment is strong to the extent of an unbreakable link existing between different generations.
The taller the man, the bigger the hands is an axiom that doesn't necessarily hold true for wide receivers.
It is a well-accepted axiom that the software ‘industry’ grew largely because of government indifference, not its help.
We have all heard the very true axiom that bookmakers really don't care who wins any given game, as long as there are equal amounts wagered on both sides.
I decline to accept as an axiom that our fate is involved in that of France.
Not that any political party cannot be expected to share the motherhood-and-apple-pie axiom that crime is a bad thing.
It is an axiom that justice must not only be done, it must be seen to be done.
It was an axiom that Ireland assimilated settlers in one generation.
This story out of USA Today makes false the axiom that lightning never strikes the same place twice.
It has long been an axiom that history is re-written by each generation in terms that make sense to it.
However the axiom that the quality and cost of the food in a revolving restaurant is in inverse proportion to the height of the tower doesn't apply here.
It is now an axiom that the overwhelming power of the American military machine has reshaped international affairs.
But at some point, you must reach what one might call a moral axiom that you can't logically demonstrate.
With so much going on, there is an axiom that if you visit NY for a day you will see most of what you want; for a week, some of what you want; and if you live there, you will see none of it.
I start from the simple axiom that I own myself, that my life belongs to me and not to someone else.