Alex Alicki, a sanitation worker for 12 years, offered another departmental dictum.
On both sides, in different ways, there might just be too much money chasing too few goods, to cite another economic dictum.
Even more to the point is another Silver dictum, that "We all know as fans that if you have… a $5 bet with your friend on a game, all of a sudden you're a lot more interested".
As if to back up his point Self's essay, also published on the BBC website, uses such obscure language as "lucubrations" (laborious study) and primus inter pares (first among equals) - which disobeys another Orwell dictum, "never use a foreign phrase if you can use an everyday English equivalent".
"Expect cold weather if hogs are fatter than usual," runs another hoary old dictum.
(Another long-standing "Doctor Who" dictum: No hanky-panky in the Tardis).
Yet another challenge to the dictum emerges with news that Condoleezza Rice is seeking a move into sports journalism.
This raises a deep methodological question: if we notice a conflict between Hume's dictum and another intuitively plausible claim, why should we retain Hume's dictum and jettison the other claim?
THE WORLD IN VOGUE: People, Parties, Places (Knopf, $75), a compendium of Vogue society photographs selected by Alexandra Kotur, the magazine's style director, illustrates another aspect of Sontag's dictum about fashion-as-surface: nowadays "fashion is hardly at all about what people do but almost exclusively about how they appear — and where they are seen".
Another description comes from a simple dictum that Ms. Tinti once gave to an interviewer: "Write something that you would like to read yourself".
