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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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But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest.

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We cannot despair about mankind knowing that Mozart was a man.

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Prudence therefore consists in knowing how to distinguish degrees of disadvantage.

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Knowing the cause of something is not going to help you to be free of it.

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The door to God is the insecurity of not knowing anything. Bear the grace of that uncertainty and all wisdom will be yours.

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I'm a content person and I'm content knowing that I gave it my all when I was president.

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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.

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If we were to lose our fish that we appreciate so much by overfishing; or if we were to lose some of our favorite beaches to overbuilding and pollution, then how would we feel? It's become a case of not knowing what you've got until it's gone.

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I think musicians are perfect at knowing how to get the best out of other musicians. I can really relate to that communion.

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There will come a point in everyone's life , however, where only intuition can make the leap ahead, without ever knowing precisely how. One can never know why but one must accept intuition as a fact.

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Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.

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Whoever is capable of knowing when they have had enough will always be satisfied.

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And they will return one day knowing the miracle of the heavens and of all the world. God knew what he was doing when he drew their attention to the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. If he hadn’t wanted them to eat it, he would never have mentioned it.

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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.

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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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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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True wisdom is knowing what you don't know

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If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.

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So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.

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