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Maximum

The greatest quantity or value attainable in a given case; or, the greatest value attained by a quantity which first increases and then begins to decrease; the highest point or degree; -- opposed to minimum.

Greatest in quantity or highest in degree attainable or attained; as, a maximum consumption of fuel; maximum pressure; maximum heat.

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Maximum Quotations

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
Zig Ziglar

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
John F. Kennedy

Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.
Les Brown

I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
Jackie Kennedy

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
George Bernard Shaw

But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.
Barney Frank

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
Germaine Greer

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.
Michael Phelps

I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.
Norman Mailer

Maximum Translations

maximum in Afrikaans is maksimum
maximum in Dutch is maximum-, maximaal
maximum in Swedish is maximal

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