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There follows a desexing section on maxims (for “He who laughs last laughs best” read “The last laugh is the best”: not only does it not say the same thing but the second is totally lacking in the rhetorical devices packed into the first), and a two-page bibliography, reference notes to chapters, and an index.
Luckily, the world of proverbs, sayings, adages, maxims, and plain old saws is various enough to say anything you want.
To begin with, the purported contrast between the blinkered maxims of economic theory and the penetrating insights of Kuttner's common sense is a fraud.
Millions of young Red Guards went on the rampage, and the whole country set about memorizing the maxims in Mao’s Little Red Book.
But as a result, sovereignty no longer stands as Hoffmann's chief organizing principle, and his final list of policy "maxims" reads less like an antidote to the current confusion than an eloquent recapitulation of it.