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met with

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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. Niels Bohr

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way. Havelock Ellis

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: "What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me." Joseph Addison

I had become interested in economics, an interest that was transformed into a lifetime dedication when I met with the mathematical theory of general economic equilibrium. Gérard Debreu

The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be. William Hazlitt

Like a Buddha met with in hell. Japanese Proverb

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