Word: dictum
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Perhaps I do think I know what's morally right. Another Christian virtue, however, humility, causes me to recognize my own limitations. For we all remain defect-ridden and fallible. Catholic especially emphasize Christ's dictum to "judge not lest you be judged." Even the prudential judgments of the popes, while important, can be mistaken...
Maxwell was a lifelong subscriber to Machiavelli's dictum that it is better to be feared than loved. David Adler, who was a Maxwell executive for three years, remembers being called on the carpet because he was unable to meet his master's plane at the airport. (He sent three limousines instead.) "Remember," Maxwell bellowed, "I am the most important person in your life...
...never more clearly revealed than in the unconscionable exploitation of Anita F. Hill. That these senators and their agents perceive Thomas to be a threat to the republic seems to justify for them their abusive and destructive tactics. Their high minded political passions notwithstanding, they illustrate the old dictum that a surplus of virtue is more dangerous than a surplus of vice, because a surplus of virtue is never subject to the constraints of conscience...
...That dictum inspired him to save up the money for his first bike at the age of six. Today it underpins the "toughlove" policies he is pursuing as Governor of Wisconsin. "We're glad to say he's a typical Wisconsinite," says Tilmar Roalkvam, 72, a retired Elroy postman who has known Thompson from childhood. "It's them work ethic. Being a good person...
...says Alan Kay, a techie visionary whose design work led to the Macintosh's easy-to-use screen display, "the computer revolution hasn't happened yet." Kay maintains that the computer is not a tool or an instrument but a medium, and he cites communications guru Marshall McLuhen's dictum that all new forms of media take their initial content from what preceded them. "Everything that we do on a computer is a simulation," says Kay. "Right now, we're still simulating paper...