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What you say in both instances is obviously true, but not easily reconcileable given reality.
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And how, asks Socrates, are these words reconcileable with the fact that all mankind are agreed in thinking themselves wiser than others in some respects, and inferior to them in others?
Theaetetus 2007
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‘Then how is such an admission reconcileable with the doctrine that philosophers should be kings?’
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But you, Sir Charles, have shewn that re-putation and conscience are entirely reconcileable.
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Or why should not the acknowledgment of a real distinction between vice and virtue be reconcileable to all speculative systems of philosophy, as well as that of a real distinction between personal beauty and deformity?
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Industry the boldest measures reconcileable with prudence.
John Adams autobiography, part 1, "John Adams," through 1776 1961
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On one of those singular gems Claudian has composed a series of epigrams, which ascribe properties to the stone, and make allusion to uses of it hardly reconcileable with the idea of its being a merely puerile curiosity.
The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II Various
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The late decrees, which obstruct the intercourse and affiliation of popular societies, may be regarded as an event not only beneficial to this country, but to the world in general; because it is confessed, that these combinations, by means of which the French monarchy was subverted, and the King brought to the scaffold, are only reconcileable with a barbarous and anarchical government.
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The late decrees, which obstruct the intercourse and affiliation of popular societies, may be regarded as an event not only beneficial to this country, but to the world in general; because it is confessed, that these combinations, by means of which the French monarchy was subverted, and the King brought to the scaffold, are only reconcileable with a barbarous and anarchical government.
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All the known motions of the solar system are consistent and reconcileable with this theory of LAPLACE, and upon it the author of the
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