"It is an axiom of political life that……" — Charles Krauthammer
"It is an axiom of political life that you never raise expectations, whether in a political or military campaign, because your defeats are then magnified and your victories discounted."
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120 Quotes by Charles Krauthammer
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We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.
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Passing a law like the assault weapons ban is a symbolic - purely symbolic - move in that direction. Its…
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The Brady Bill's only effect will be to desensitize the public to regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate…
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[I]t's not the advertising, it's the dog food. Every time anybody has a look at it or has a lick…
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In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much…
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You can have the most advanced and efflorescent cultures. Get your politics wrong, however, and everything stands to be swept…
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To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals…
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Don't touch my junk, you airport security goon--my package belongs to no one but me, and do you really think…
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Some will protest that in a world with so much human suffering, it is something between eccentric and obscene to…
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History has blessed us with all the freedom and advantages of multiculturalism. But it has also blessed us, because of…
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Hawks favor war on the grounds that Saddam Hussein is reckless, tyrannical and instinctively aggressive, and that if he comes…
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If [Bush's] successors don't screw it up, within 10 years NASA will have us back to where we belong --…
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More Axiom Quotes
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It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
— Aneurin Bevan
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There is an ancient Celtic axiom that says 'Good people drink good beer.' Which is true, then as now. Just…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men…
— Harry S. Truman
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Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques…
— Thomas Browne
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We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is…
— Antoine Lavoisier
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Lagrange, in one of the later years of his life, imagined that he had overcome the difficulty (of the parallel…
— Augustus De Morgan
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I do not see why the axiom of Prudence should not be questioned, when it conflicts with present inclination, on…
— Henry Sidgwick
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It is an axiom of political science in the United States that the sole means of neutralizing the effects of…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.
— Maxwell Maltz
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The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence.
— Edward Abbey
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At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby. It…
— David Foster Wallace
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