axiom
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If anyone needs the axiom “Tell me who you’re with, and I’ll tell you who you are” whispered to them every morning as a reminder to do better, it’s Spencer Pratt.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
The old axiom is to be greedy when others are fearful.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
For a decade, the global luxury industry operated on a simple axiom: As China goes, so goes the bottom line.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 27, 2026
If Ben Franklin were alive today, he might add a third certainty to his now-familiar axiom: death, taxes, and the late-summer creep of Spirit Halloween filling in vacant retail storefronts across the country.
From Slate • Oct. 10, 2024
I lament that I can see no flaw in this bitter axiom.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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