Name: Tim Flannery: Here on...
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Description: technology but we have they yet to be fully integrated so self-control and self-awareness remained rudimentary as the human species I would argue is today it's also axiomatic that infancy is the most dangerous period of life so we are going through a dangerous transition I

Stacy Schiff

Reality does not easily give up meaning; it's the biographer's job to clobber it into submission. You're meant not only to tame it but to extract substance, to identify cause and axiomatic effect. You subsist on the tactical omissions, the hollow words, the oddly unconnected dots.

American Author

Lenny Abrahamson

I know that it's axiomatic in the film industry that you're not supposed to let the novelist develop their own story. Well, first of all, that's kind of up to the novelist - because they don't have to sell it. But also, I don't believe it. It's about trust.

Irish Director

John Lanchester

It seems to me obviously axiomatic that markets are not magical, that they're organised in a range of regulated entities created by men. We decide in what we will have markets, and we decide how the rules work and how they'll conduct themselves.

British Journalist

Basil Hume

It is axiomatic that the Cross we get is the one we most dislike: we would choose any other. But it is equally true that the Cross which is ours is the one Christ wants us to bear.

English Clergyman

James O'Shaughnessy

It seems that the one thing that doesn't change is people's reaction to short-term conditions and their axiomatic ability to perpetuate them far into the future.

American Businessman

Elvis Mitchell

If you start off as a fearsome figure in pop culture, it's almost axiomatic that at some point, years under the lights softens you into a cuddly family figure.

American Critic

Christopher Buckley

It's axiomatic that all husbands are impossible. But I also think it's axiomatic that women are slightly impossible.

American Novelist

Zbigniew Brzezinski

It is axiomatic that the security of America and Europe are linked.

American Politician

Use 'axiomatic' for statements so clear that they don't need additional evidence or justification.

No Proof Needed

'Axiomatic' implies wide acceptance or common agreement on a fact or idea.

Common Agreement

Using 'axiomatic' suggests you trust the listener to accept the statement without doubt.

Implicit Trust

'Axiomatic' in academics often refers to principles that form the basis of a theory or system.

Theoretical Basis

In philosophy, 'axiomatic' can describe fundamental beliefs that guide further reasoning.

Foundation of Logic

Use 'axiomatic' in mathematics to talk about concepts that are taken as starting points without proof.

Mathematical Context

 technology but we have they yet to be fully integrated so self-control and self-awareness remained rudimentary as the human species I would argue is today it's also axiomatic that infancy is the most dangerous period of life so we are going through a dangerous transition I

Tim Flannery: Here on...

 If A is an axiomatic statement, it can't be the case that A and the opposite of A are both true. Comedy seems to live here, to subsist on the illogic of logical contradiction and its derivatives. We laugh when the order we project on the world

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 that an individual can have the same wealth as, say, a billion or more of the world's poorest people. If they examine sort of -- I think there's some axiomatic flaws that are leading them to that conclusion.

Axiomatic

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