maxim

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There is an old maxim in trade theory that says free trade is the strategy of the confident.

From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026

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

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

One reason things were changing so much owed to a familiar technology maxim called Moore’s law.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel