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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
To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence. -- Sun Tzu
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
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
As the train rounded the curve, the great smoking stacks of the Edgar Thomson works, the flaming converters belching forth, made such a vivid impression upon my youthful mind that it will never fade. I thought I had seen the very acme of what might be accomplished in an industrial way. -- Charles M. Schwab
Madness is the acme of intelligence. -- Naguib Mahfouz
It is the acme of life to understand life. -- George Santayana
The acme of faith is... immersion of the mind in God. -- Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov
The acme of humbleness is to forget unfalteringly good deeds of oneself. -- Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov
All we know is that you are, if you will, the acme of perfection. -- Fred Alan Wolf
When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection, it will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
I am an acme of things accomplished, and I am an encloser of things to be. -- Walt Whitman
The acme of love is to enhance your friendly attitude to those who insult and revile you. -- Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov
Winning isn't enough. The acme of all skill is to defeat your enemy before taking the field. -- Sun Tzu
The acme of freedom from wealth is to desire to be possessionless even as others desire to possess. -- Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov
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
The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eyes for two hours and not hear a damned word he says. -- John Marshall
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
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
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
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
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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