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by any means

Meaning

Using whatever method or strategy is required.
by any means necessary
Synonyms: at all costs, no matter what, whatever it takes

(idiomatic) In any manner whatsoever; at all.
I do not by any means blame the employees for the collapse of the company.

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Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort. Jean Cocteau

I consider my selfbeing ... that taste of myself, of I and me above and in all things, which is more distinctive than the taste of ale or alum, more distinctive than the smell of walnutleaf or camphor, and is incommunicable by any means to another man. Gerard Manley Hopkins

Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with law, as is the object of philosophical, philological, historical, moral, and social sciences to establish. Hermann von Helmholtz

I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited lies when we were born. It is not by refusing to lie that we will abolish lies: it is by eradicating class by any means necessary. Jean-Paul Sartre

Islam is not a religion of peace. It's a political theory of conquest that seeks domination by any means it can. Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place. Alexander Pope

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