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in and of itself

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in and of itself
without considering anything else. Any step we can take to end the conflict and save lives is important in and of itself.
Usage notes: sometimes used in the form in and of themselves: Lower interest rates in and of themselves don't mean much for stock prices.
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Such pictures photograph the very "photographic instant," and it is in this that they truly become radical exercises of what Duchamp called the "infrathin"--which is, without a doubt, the difference between the photograph of the photographed, of the "real," and that of the photographic instant or the photographic act in and of itself.
 
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