Word: maximation
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...sanctuary will be temporary. My values may be no more valid than yours, but at the same time yours are by definition no more valid than mine, and if my values hold, for example, that zoroastrians should be burned at the stake, your values (which might include the maxim, "Burning people is wrong")are relevant only to you and your actions, not to me or my actions...
...organization was founded in 1926 to study the gray matter of Lenin, and according to director Oleg Adrianov, it has since probed "many, many tens of brains," including those of Joseph Stalin and writer Maxim Gorky. The results of specific studies are classified...
...here is a maxim worth remembering: good motives do not always make good movies. Too often Hollywood finds in the Holocaust a familiar, convenient parable of sanctified martyrdom and slavering sadism. Thorny issues are begged, compelling stories avoided. The dark psychology of the death-camp administrator, himself captive in a twisted chain of command, is rarely investigated. Neither is the prisoner's natural impulse to survive at any cost, which gave rise to "the Jewish members of the GPU, the Capos, the thieves, speculators, informers," as Singer describes them in Enemies, a Love Story. Instead, characters are as reductive...
...list of sweeping arms proposals that kept Ronald Reagan off balance for the rest of their time together. This time it was Bush who produced the printed sheet of specifics almost as soon as he and Gorbachev sat down in the book-lined cardroom of the Soviet cruise liner Maxim Gorky. Putting before him 112 typed pages of items, the President started out nervously, his voice tight. Gorbachev, sitting across from him, listened intently. When Bush finished speaking, nearly one hour later, he had set out what one White House official called "a lot of meat...
...beat. When he arrived, he noted, "The naval ships have come on a mission of peace. This symbolism gives expression to the radical changes now sweeping the world as it shifts from confrontation." When wind forced the first meeting to be moved to the dockside Soviet cruise ship Maxim Gorky, Gorbachev remarked wryly, "The first thing to do is to eliminate those ships you cannot board in this kind of weather. We will have a secret agenda in this way to disarm the Sixth Fleet." That's the whole point, but it is quicker said than it should be done...