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Tag Name "Acme" (21)

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Jail-going is only the beginning, not the end of satyagraha. The acme of satyagraha for us would be to lay down our lives for the defence of India's just cause.
Mahatma Gandhi
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In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever it photographs. The 'anything whatever' then becomes the sophisticated acme of value.
Roland Barthes
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For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
Sun Tzu
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It is said that whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. In fact, whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first hand the equivalent of a stick with a fizzing fuse and Acme Dynamite Company written on the side. It's more interesting, and doesn't take so long.
Terry Pratchett
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The acme of faith is... immersion of the mind in God.
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov
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The acme of humbleness is to forget unfalteringly good deeds of oneself.
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov
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I am an acme of things accomplished, and I an encloser of things to be.
Walt Whitman
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Langdon turned to Sophie. Who is that? What... happened? Teabing hobbled over. You were rescued by a knight brandishing an Excalibur made by Acme Orthopedic.
Dan Brown
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All we know is that you are, if you will, the acme of perfection.
Fred Alan Wolf
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I believe that everything in Nature aspires to the acme of strength, well-being, and happiness and everything that deviates from this I call immoral.
Henry van de Velde
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Madness is the acme of intelligence.
Naguib Mahfouz
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Hockey belongs to the Cartoon Network, where a person can be pancaked by an ACME anvil, then expanded - accordion-style - back to full stature, without any lasting side effect.
Steve Rushin
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Winning isn't enough. The acme of all skill is to defeat your enemy before taking the field.
Sun Tzu
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The acme of love is to enhance your friendly attitude to those who insult and revile you.
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov
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The acme of freedom from wealth is to desire to be possessionless even as others desire to possess.
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov
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The rich philistinism emanating from advertisements is due not to their exaggerating (or inventing) the glory of this or that serviceable article but to suggesting that the acme of human happiness is purchasable and that its purchase somehow ennobles the purchaser.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Gettin' jiggy wit it is, like, the next level of cool. It's cool to the eighth power. Some people are fly, some people are kind of hot. But when you are the jiggiest, when you exude jiggy-essence, it's the acme of cool.
Will Smith
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When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection, it will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
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This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man.
Edward Thorndike
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Disease is a dynamic process. It has a beginning - slow or sudden - develops, reaches in many cases an acme, and ends in recovery or death.
Henry E. Sigerist
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The notebooks of Paul Brunton represent the acme of wisdom on the nature of human spirituality. Every serious student of this subject will profit enormously by becoming acquainted with Brunton's seminal work.
Kenneth Ring