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Be-all and end-all   /bi-ɔl ənd ɛnd-ɔl/   Listen
Be-all and end-all

noun
1.
The essential factor; the all-important element; the supreme aim.  Synonym: be all and end all.






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... inseparable from man's life here and now. In all these great wars which we have touched upon, the conflict of two ideas, in the Platonic sense of the word, unveils itself, but both ideas are ultimately phases of one Idea. It is by conflict alone that life realizes itself. That is the be-all and end-all of life as such, of Being as such. From the least developed forms of structural or organic nature to the highest form in which the world-force realizes itself, the will and imagination of Man, this law is absolute. The very magic of the stars, their ...
— The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain - Nineteenth Century Europe • J. A. Cramb



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