It is a truism of business that no business can be better than its board of directors and its top management.

The anthropic principle is often criticized for lacking falsifiability and therefore critics of the anthropic principle may point out that the anthropic principle is a non-scientific concept, even though the weak anthropic principle, " conditions that are observed in the universe must allow the observer to exist ", is " easy " to support in mathematics and philosophy, i. e. it is a tautology or truism

Hayek stated that if the Conservative leader had said " that free choice is to be exercised more in the market place than in the ballot box, she has merely uttered the truism that the first is indispensable for individual freedom while the second is not: free choice can at least exist under a dictatorship that can limit itself but not under the government of an unlimited democracy which cannot ".

It is an accepted truism within magick that divination is imperfect.

The Tenth Amendment, which makes explicit the idea that the federal government is limited only to the powers granted in the Constitution, is often considered to be a truism.

The famous opening lines of the novel summarize this view: It is a general truism of this world that anything long divided will surely unite, and anything long united will surely divide ( 話說天下大勢 ， 分久必合 ， 合久必分 ).

Critics have argued that Luo Guanzhong's initial pronouncement " It is a general truism of this world that anything long divided will surely unite, and anything long united will surely divide " epitomizes the main theme of the novel.

The weather is often described by the truism that says: " If you don't like the weather, wait ten minutes ; it'll change.

The name is a parody of King Arthur's round table reinforced by the truism that roleplaying aficionados often end up sitting round their host's dinner table as it is the only one large enough to accommodate the party ( 4 to 8 people typically ).

The Court stated that the 10th Amendment " is but a truism " and was not considered to be an independent limitation on Congressional power.

It is a truism that 80 percent of business-relevant information originates in unstructured form, primarily text.

Say's law states that in a market economy, goods and services are produced for exchange with other goods and services – ' employment multipliers ' – therefore arise from production and not exchange alone-and in the process a sufficient level of real income is created to purchase the economy's entire output due to the truism that the means of consumption are limited ex vi termini by the level of production.

A truism is a claim that is so obvious or self-evident as to be hardly worth mentioning, except as a reminder or as a rhetorical or literary device and is the opposite of falsism.

( The truism that says, diversify your investments, may have worked for the Elizabethan play market as for the modern stock market.

However, according to at least one marine biologist, Nick Ruello, this advice may have arisen from an old, poorly-researched cookbook's advice regarding mussels, which has now become an assumed truism for all shellfish.

The common consensus has been to follow Kurth, based on the historical truism that Romans hated kingship from the days of the expulsion of Tarquin the Proud ; for example, Syagrius ' article in the Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire omits this title, preferring to refer to him as a " Roman ruler ( in North Gaul )".

Autonomy was a radical goal for women to aspire to at the end of the 19th century ; it was historically a truism that women were always legally and economically dependent, either on their husband, relatives, or social and charitable institutions.

In philosophy, a sentence which asserts incomplete truth conditions for a proposition may be regarded as a truism.

On the contrary, it would make it all the more imperative to defend them since, once again, it has been a truism for years, indeed centuries, that it is precisely in the case of horrendous ideas that the right of free expression must be most vigorously defended ; it is easy enough to defend free expression for those who require no such defense.

They also recast the reading of the 10th Amendment, regarding it as a " truism " that merely restates what the Constitution had already provided for, rather than offering a substantive protection to the States, as the Hammer ruling had contended.

In fact the matter was never seriously in issue, however, as it is a truism of English law that a statute is pro tanto repealed by a subsequent statute to the extent of any inconsistency, whether or not the prior inconsistent statute is expressly repealed for that or any purpose.

He contended, " The idea of Pakistan was dead at its inception, when the majority of Muslims ( in Muslim-minority areas of India ) chose to stay back after partition, a truism reiterated in the creation of Bangladesh in 1971.

It is a truism that communication media are always faulty.

From a Chomskyan perspective, this is a truism because the two objects of study are fundamentally different.

At its best, virtual sex not only complicates but drastically unsettles the division between mind, body, and self that has become a comfortable truism in Western metaphysics.

Internal national responsibility, now a truism, need not be documented.

A " truism to people active in the gay movement that the greatest impediments to homosexuals ' progress often not heterosexuals, but closeted homosexuals ," said San Francisco journalist Randy Shilts.

The anthropic principle states a logical truism: the fact of our existence as intelligent beings who can measure physical constants requires those constants to be such that beings like us can exist.

Through overuse, an adage may become a cliché or truism, or be described as an " old saw.

The slogan caught on quickly as a catchy truism, a chant, or simply something written as graffiti.

Pruitt – Igoe has become a frequently used textbook case in architecture, sociology and politics, " a truism of the environment and behavior literature ", to the point where the story of Pruitt – Igoe evolves as a self-sustaining myth shrouded in misconceptions.

A higher GDP / capita correlates with democracy and while some claim the wealthiest democracies have never been observed to fall into authoritarianism, Hitler would be an obvious counter-example that would render the claim a truism.

This economic truism leads to the phenomenon of products designed ( or appearing to be designed ) to last only so long as their warranty period.

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I seized the rack and made a western-style flying-mount just in time, one of my knees mercifully landing on my duffel bag -- and merely wrecking my camera, I was to discover later -- my other knee landing on the slivery truck floor boards and -- but this is no medical report.

And all the time, she had the heat of hatred in her, like charcoal that is burning on its under side, but not visibly.

`` I realize that this is hardly the time to say it, Penny '', said Keith.

But there is no use causing him to worry at this time ''.

It is almost time for and calinda to begin ''.

It is one of the ironic quirks of history that the viability and usefulness of nationalism and the territorial state are rapidly dissipating at precisely the time that the nation-state attained its highest number ( approximately 100 ).

There is little time for the men in the command centers to reflect about the implications of these clocks.

The other variables include the dancer who is to perform the movement and the length of time he is to take in its performance.

At the same time, he is plainly sympathetic, clearly friendly.

The consciousness it mirrors may have come earlier to Europe than to America, but it is the consciousness that most `` mature '' societies arrive at when their successes in technological and economic systematization propel them into a time of examining the not-strictly-practical ends of culture.

As Lipton puts it: `` The Eros is felt in the magic circle of marijuana with far greater force, as a unifying principle in human relationships, than at any other time except, perhaps, in the mutual metaphysical orgasms.

How is the beat poet to achieve unity of form when he is at the same time engaged in a systematic derangement of senses.

But he plunges into yet another, this time with Norway, and is killed in an assault on the fortress of Fredrikshall, being only thirty-six years of age when he died.

At the same time, because the personal code of the detective coincides with the legal dictates of his society, because he likes to catch criminals, he is in middle class eyes a virtuous man.

For example, suppose a man wearing a $200 watch, driving a 1959 Rolls Royce, stops to ask a man on the sidewalk, `` What time is it ''??

That is to say Gabriel's fundamental law had been so much modified by this time that it was neither fundamental nor law any more.

If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??

His sailing vessel is guided by fate to the shores of his own country at a time when Sibylla's domain is overrun by the armies of one of her rejected suitors.

It is notable that at this time he was writing with admiration of Cimabue's and Poussin's way of filling space.

His denials of extensive reading notwithstanding, it is no doubt safe to assume that he has spent time schooling himself in Southern history and that he has gained some acquaintance with the chief literary authors who have lived in the South or have written about the South.

He is a dreamer of the good society with a plan to put into effect, and he is an individual craftsman with something to make for himself and the people of his time.