Quotes 261 till 267 of 267.
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“If, as has already been observed, I see a stroke aimed, and just ready to fall upon the leg, or arm, of another person, I naturally shrink and draw back my own leg, or my own arm: and when it does fall, I feel it in some measure, and am hurt by it as well as the sufferer.
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Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.
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Consult. To seek another's approval of a course already decided on.
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Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.
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The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.
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The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.
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