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ACCOMPLICE, n. One associated with another in a crime, having guilty knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing him guilty. This view of the attorney's position in the matter has not hitherto commanded the assent of attorneys, no one having offered them a fee for assenting.

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Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.

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They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.

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The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.

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The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.

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What an investor needs is the ability to correctly evaluate selected businesses. Note that word “selected”: You don't have to be an expert on every company, or even many. You only have to be able to evaluate companies within your circle of competence. The size of that circle is not very important; knowing its boundaries, however, is vital.

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For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame.

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When God doesn't change a circumstance, He can change our hearts in knowing that He can change all things for the good.

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What incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that passed it all off as a jest, pretending to understand everything and in reality not knowing their own minds.

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It wasn't the New World that mattered... Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life that matters, nothing but life - the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.

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Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with someone, up went her back like a cat's; or she purred.

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If the masses can love without knowing why, they also hate without much foundation.

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No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.

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The eye with which you see God is the same eye with which God sees you; one in seeing; one in knowing; one in loving.

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A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well.

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The instruction of children should aim gradually to combine knowing and doing. Among all sciences mathematics seems to be the only one of a kind to satisfy this aim most completely.

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Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.

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It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.

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Knowing what's correct and not doing it, it's the worst cowardice.

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The essential form of knowledge... is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being and the truth of knowing are one, differing no more than the direct beam and the beam reflected.

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