The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.
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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.
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His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
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His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
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It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
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It is an axiom in political science that unless a people are educated and enlightened it is idle to expect the continuance of civil liberty or...
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No matter how great your triumphs or how tragic your defeats -- approximately one billion Chinese couldn't care less.
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[W]e shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.
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The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.
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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
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