Symbologists often remarked that France-a country renowned for machismo, womanizing, and diminutive insecure leaders like Napoleon and Pepin the Short-could not have chosen a more apt national emblem than a thousand-foot phallus.

Dan Brown
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All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.

William Mathews
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Wayne Dyer
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To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.

William R. Alger
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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams
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There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.

Vint Cerf
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I am just a hard-working 23-year-old. When Maxim asked me to be on their cover, I was quite surprised. Of course, I was happy about it.

Priyanka Chopra
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In the gay (Catholic) community, it would seem, the maxim is: love the sin and love the sinner, but hate anyone who calls it a sin or him a sinner.

Richard John Neuhaus
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It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself.

Richard Bentley
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Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

Barbara W. Tuchman
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If I have lived by any maxim as a reporter, it was that every person is an expert on the circumstances of his life.

Joseph Lelyveld
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The maxim of the ski industry is that more snow equates to more skiers.

Will Marks
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Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law.

Immanuel Kant
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It is a very big surprise, but like Maxim says it is just the compulsory dance. We will have to wait until the end of the competition.

Albena Denkova
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Remember my unalterable maxim, "When we love, we always have something to say.

Mary Worley Montagu
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The point of doing the lounges is another way of connecting with our readers and for readers to connect with the Maxim brand.

Stephen Colvin
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To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.

James Buchanan
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Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

Thomas Babington Macaulay
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