"At root, vulgar just means popular on a……" — David Foster Wallace

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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
• There is an ancient Celtic axiom that says 'Good people drink good beer.' Which is true, then as now. Just… — Hunter S. Thompson
• The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it… — Edgar Allan Poe
• There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men… — Harry S. Truman
• Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques… — Thomas Browne
• We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is… — Antoine Lavoisier
• Lagrange, in one of the later years of his life, imagined that he had overcome the difficulty (of the parallel… — Augustus De Morgan
• I do not see why the axiom of Prudence should not be questioned, when it conflicts with present inclination, on… — Henry Sidgwick
• It is an axiom of political science in the United States that the sole means of neutralizing the effects of… — Alexis de Tocqueville
• It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear. — Maxwell Maltz
• The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence. — Edward Abbey
• The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice… — Alonzo Church

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