Sentence examples for repeated maxim from inspiring English sources

An occasionally repeated maxim in this column is "it's usually worth paying attention to experts, whatever the subject", and in this case the maxim holds true in spades.

From serving on resident hall councils as a freshman, to being a student advocate as a senator in the Student Government Association, to being a resident advisor, I have tried to take the oft repeated maxim on campus of "having your brother's back" seriously.

Dr. Chu, a Nobel Prize winning scientist, repeated a maxim he said he had learned early in his career: "It's O.K. to fail, but fail fast, and move on".

"Don't protect mediocrity," Stronach said, repeating a maxim for his vision.

In the film she repeats the maxim, probably learned from her teacher Martha Graham, that "movement never lies".

Pliny repeated Aristotle's maxim that Africa was always producing something new.

"Negative advertising is the crack cocaine of politics" is the much-repeated maxim of the former Democratic senator Tom Daschle.

As the oft-repeated maxim goes, the true test of a society is how it treats its weakest members.

Voicing an oft-repeated maxim, David Rosenthal, publisher of Simon & Schuster, said, "One might say the entire book industry is largely a progressive book group".

The oft-repeated maxim of Russian biologist Theodosius Dobzhansky, "Nothing makes sense in biology except in the light of evolution", is trotted out here too, which is fine as it deserves cultural ubiquity.

Facebook CTO Bret Taylor responded to the oft-repeated maxim ("meme" is what he called it) that Facebook privacy settings are needlessly complex by asserting that "the majority of people on Facebook have modified their privacy settings" in a conversation with John Battelle at Web 2.0 Summit today.