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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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We humans have two great problems: the first is knowing when to begin; the second is knowing when to stop.

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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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The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans' privacy. But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we're getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.

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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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Balance in large measure is knowing the things that can be changed, putting them in proper perspective, and recognizing the things that will not change."

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It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.

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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

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Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.

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As long as God does not intervene in the contemporary universe in such a way as to violate physical laws, science has no way of knowing whether God exists or not. The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.

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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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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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Our rash faults Make trivial price of serious thing we have, Not knowing them until we know their grave.

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Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it.

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The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into correctness, knowing it will never visit his bereaved ear again.

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It's true that the best way of knowing yourself is to put yourself into different situations.

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Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call the result intuition.

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Sometimes as human beings, we're so contradictory - we may say something or do something and completely contradict ourselves. That's what I'm learning to embrace in television - not knowing what's going to happen. I might make a specific choice for myself and then in the next episode the writers might write something that contradicts it.

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But I must bear my destiny as best I can, knowing well that there is no resisting the strength of necessity.

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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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