maxim

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To rework Karl Marx’s famous maxim, sometimes historical events can be tragedy and farce at the same time, and repeat themselves in the same register.

From Salon • Mar. 15, 2026

“Heel” is Tolstoy’s happy-family maxim cooked in a mad scientist’s lab.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026

The venerable Warren Buffett offered this simple maxim in a letter to Berkshire Hathaway investors in 1986:

From Barron's • Mar. 3, 2026

Montagu Norman, the governor of the Bank of England for a quarter-century after World War I, lived by the maxim: “Never explain, never excuse.”

From MarketWatch • Feb. 3, 2026

After much thought Snowball declared that the Seven Commandments could in effect be re- duced to a single maxim, namely: “four legs good, two legs bad.”

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell