Nonetheless, his dictum seems to apply to them.
She represents a pragmatic Germany generation whose dictum seems to be: After the big debates, after the agonizing, let's just get on with being prosperous.
Walter Benjamin's dictum seems to fit so much of Unsworth's work: "There is no document of civilisation which is not at the same time a document of barbarism".
The main dictum seems to be that even though you're trying to beat your opponents' brains in, you have to do it in a mannerly fashion, and if you don't, you're dead meat.
The "no crossing swords" dictum seemed uptight, not humorous.
Leiweke, who makes a concerted effort not to leave enemies behind (an Anschutz dictum), still seems to carry a grudge against Wachs — perhaps because the Staples episode represented the only time in his history in Los Angeles that he fought hard for something and lost.
Here we see the deeper point behind Heidegger's aforementioned phenomenological dictum: "What seems natural to us is presumably just the familiarity of a long-established custom which has forgotten the unfamiliarity from which it arose".
Hume, of course, denied that it makes any sense to speak of a conflict between reason and passion, when he declared that reason not only is "but ought only to be" the slave to the passions – a dictum that seems to apply to theoretical as well as practical reason.
"Happiness" is one of the mother's favorite words; she firmly declares, "Everyone makes their own luck in this life!" That her husband can't seem to follow this dictum successfully, and indeed is plagued by its very opposite, is what drives the novel.
It is important, of course, that militarily we always carry as big a stick as possible when it comes to Russia, but the other part of Theodore Roosevelt's old dictum we seem to forget – the "speaking softly".
