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Meaning: (idiomatic,informal)Aformulationorrealizationthatcapturesaprofoundthoughtinsimpleterms.1999, Mary Lynn Damhorst, Kimberly A. Miller-Spillman, Susan O. Michelman,The Meanings of Dress, New York, N.Y.:Fairchild Publications,→ISBN, page351:"Beauty isn't about looking young." OK, so it's notE=mc²or even[Isaac] Newton's apple. But coming as it does from a top cosmetics company, it does represent an attitude readjustment that makesSaul's change of heart on the road to Damascus look like a passing fancy.2001,Neil Henry, “Tenth Man Classic”, inPearl’s Secret: A Black Man’s Search for His White Family(The George Gund FoundationImprint in African American Studies), Berkeley; Los Angeles, Calif.; London:University of California Press,→ISBN, part 2 (Discovery),page282:What counted most through the generations, far more than any other factor, regardless of our race, was how we treated those we loved and how well we loved. That seemed the transcendent lesson or moral that my search had revealed. And it held true whether the figure was my mother or Fredda on one side of our family tree, or Rita or Anna Beaumont on the other. Simple as it was, it was myE = mc².2005, Jeff Byles, “Fragmentation at a Price”, inRubble: Unearthing the History of Demolition, New York, N.Y.:Harmony Books,→ISBN,page70:WhatJacques Derridais to literature, [Mark] Loizeaux is to [building] demolition: He's the philosopher king of demolition.[…]Loizeaux's battle plan remains formidably elegant, theE = MC²of demolition.2010,Stephen Batchelor, “Embrace Suffering”, inConfession of a Buddhist Atheist, New York, N.Y.:Spiegel & Grau,→ISBN,page154:If conditioned arising was thee = mc²of Gotama [i.e.,Siddhartha Gautama]'s vision, the eightfold path was his first move in translating that axiom from an abstract principle into a civilizing force.
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