Americans, perhaps because they have a guilty conscience, think of the IRS as being omniscient.

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For an eater suffering from a guilty conscience, a spoonful of vitamins makes the fattening food go down.

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The plaintiffs also have to show executives acted with scienter, or guilty conscience.

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