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we and can
There's only one way they can get out now and that's through the Gap -- if we ride hard we can take them ''.
`` That is, if we can be sure this is Colcord's money '' --
`` I know what we can do '', I said.
I think I have a way so we can carry on without his suspecting us ''.
and now I think we can use the knowledge they passed on to us.
`` We can get it if we dig '', he said patiently.
`` I suppose '', he muttered, `` I can sell the outfit for enough to send you home to your folks, once we find a settlement ''.
Once we send out the whole pie, they can put their pieces into it.
It is well then that in this hour both of `` national peril '' and of `` national opportunity '' we can take counsel with the men who made the nation.
We have staved off a war and, since our behavior has involved all these elements, we can only keep adding to our ritual without daring to abandon any part of it, since we have not the slightest notion which parts are effective.
That, I thought, is at least one thing I can find out when we meet.
But now we can keep it out no longer, because we have come into a time when `` it invades our experience at every moment.
How can we make sense of this division??
However, for convenience we will stick to the idea that information can be classified according to Table 1.
This is an unsolved problem which probably has never been seriously investigated, although one frequently hears the comment that we have insufficient specialists of the kind who can compete with the Germans or Swiss, for example, in precision machinery and mathematics, or the Finns in geochemistry.
We hear equally fervent concern over the belief that we have not enough generalists who can see the over-all picture and combine our national skills and knowledge for useful purposes.
But, for practical purposes, we have people who can be considered as such.
What I am here to do is to report on the gyrations of the struggle -- a struggle that amounts to self-redefinition -- to see if we can predict its future course.
One of the obvious conclusions we can make on the basis of the last election, I suppose, is that we, the majority, were dissatisfied with Eisenhower conservatism.

we and also
`` And next year we will do -- also a Ford commission -- a piano concerto by Elliott Carter, with Jacob Lateiner as soloist.
And yet we obviously also believe that the avoidance of the disaster depends in some obscure or at least uncertain way on the details of how we behave.
I think that we are here also talking of the kind of fear that a young boy has for a group of boys who are approaching at night along the streets of a large city.
The question would also be removed if we believed in the contrary -- total salvation.
But where we have both dark and light we have also the inexplicable.
And though we can look back now and see their errors, we can look back also to the ultimate error.
And if we understand the rocking as an erotic symbol we can also see how well it serves as the symbol of impending tragedy.
Very likely it will also include a recognition that the work we are reading reflects or `` belongs to '' some way of thought labelled as a `` school '' or an `` -ism '', i.e. a complex or `` syndrome '' of ideas occurring together with sufficient prominence to warrant identification.
We may further grant to those of her ( Poetry's ) defenders who are lovers of poetry and yet not poets, the permission to speak in prose on her behalf: let them show not only that she is pleasant but also useful to States and to human life, and we will listen in a kindly spirit ; ;
And we can add that Krutch's interpretation of purgation is also one answer to Plato's fear that poetry will encourage our passions.
it was also sacred, `` and no believer in an inspired church could tolerate having her canons examined as we should examine human laws ''.
Then we have surviving at least one instance of a poem prepared for another, in Naturam non Pati Senium, and perhaps also the De Idea Platonica.
A more complete list would also include Bradbury's `` The Pedestrian '' ( 1951 ), Philip K. Dick's Solar Lottery ( 1955 ), David Karp's One ( 1953 ), Wilson Tucker's The Long Loud Silence ( 1952 ), Jack Vance's To Live Forever ( 1956 ), Gore Vidal's Messiah ( 1954 ), and Bernard Wolfe's Limbo ( 1952 ), as well as the three perhaps most outstanding dystopias, Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth's The Space Merchants ( 1953 ), Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano ( 1952 ), and John Wyndham's Re-Birth ( 1953 ), works which we will later examine in detail.
like Malraux he was also serving in the tank corps before being captured, and we learn as well that in civilian life he had been a writer.
And if we do not aspire to too much, it is also within our capacity.
we were also literary ; ;
It also weakened our diplomatic stance, because Russia could easily guess we did not desire a nuclear war except in the ultimate extremity.
We now have to think not only of our national security but also of the future generations who will suffer from any tests we might undertake.
I think we need to concern ourselves also with the timeliness of action.
I also hope that we can do something about reducing the infant mortality rate of ideas -- an affliction of all bureaucracies.
But his business also grew, and we are told that Mr. Brown found it increasingly difficult to devote as much time to his creative thinking as his inclinations led him to desire.

we and assert
When we assert the value of such study, we find ourselves committed to an important assumption.
The theory claims to show by analysis that when we say, `` That is good '', we do not mean to assert a character of the subject of which we are thinking.
I hold, on the contrary, that we mean to assert something of the pain itself, namely, that it was bad -- bad when and as it occurred.
Without agreeing with every phrase in this statement, we must certainly assert the great difference between Christian love and any form of resistance, and then go on beyond the Mennonite position and affirm that Christian love-in-action must first justify and then determine the moral principles limiting resistance.
Consequently, we can assert that a complex function f, whose real and imaginary parts u and v are real-differentiable functions, is holomorphic if and only if, equations ( 1a ) and ( 1b ) are satisfied throughout the domain we are dealing with.
Ethical intuitionists assert that, if we see a good person or a right action, and our faculty of moral intuition is sufficiently developed and unimpaired, we simply intuit that the person is good or that the action is right.
Postulates 1, 2, 3, and 5 assert the existence and uniqueness of certain geometric figures, and these assertions are of a constructive nature: that is, we are not only told that certain things exist, but are also given methods for creating them with no more than a compass and an unmarked straightedge.
When we wish to assert that is a group ( for example, when stating a theorem ), we say that " is a group under ".
* " However loudly we may assert our own unworthiness, few of us are really offended by hearing the assertion contradicted by a disinterested party.
In philosophy, idealism is the group of philosophies which assert that reality, or reality as we can know it, is fundamentally mental, mentally constructed, or otherwise immaterial.
In the first episodes, we trace Telemachus ' efforts to assert control of the household, and then, at Athena ’ s advice, to search for news of his long-lost father.
It's about time we did something to assert ourselves ", and visited the open Stonewall Inn for the first time.
We lament efforts to generate unity within the profession through consensus statements concerning subluxation dogma, and believe that cultural authority will continue to elude us so long as we assert dogma as though it were validated clinical theory.
Austin pointed out that we use language to do things as well as to assert things, and that the utterance of a statement like " I promise to do so-and-so " is best understood as doing something — making a promise — rather than making an assertion about anything.
They occupy a territory to which we assert a title independent of their will, which must take effect in point of possession when their right of possession ceases.
Whereas some have dared to assert concerning the nature of the reasonable soul that it is mortal, we, with the approbation of the sacred council do condemn and reprobate all those who assert that the intellectual soul is mortal, seeing, according to the canon of Pope Clement V, that the soul is [...] immortal [...] and we decree that all who adhere to like erroneous assertions shall be shunned and punished as heretics.

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