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I and cannot
How he returned in such a ghastly condition, or why, I cannot say.
While my memory holds with relentless tenacity, as I cannot too often stress, to my wrongs, when it comes to my shames, it gestures and jokes and toys with chronology like a prestidigitator in the hope of distracting me from them.
I cannot express to you the depth of my conviction that, in our own and free world interest, we must co-operate with others to help these people achieve their legitimate ambitions, as expressed in their different multi-year plans.
I cannot ''
I cannot remember Dr. Gregory's reply, if, indeed, he made one.
Now I learn I cannot enter Germany.
In fact I cannot imagine myself condemning a man to the noose or the electric chair if I had to take, as an individual, the responsibility for his death.
Just as I know I would make a bad soldier even though I cannot sincerely call myself a pacifist, so too I would not be either a hangman by profession or, if I could avoid it, even a member of a hanging jury.
I know, that my son wants control and direction, but being autistic myself I cannot give full control or direction.
I submit that it cannot be dismissed simply by saying we are not facing the facts of life.
I suppose I am missing some elementary point but I honestly cannot see how two wrongs can make a right!!
Now, more than five years later, I cannot in any realistic sense be called a trained soldier.
Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.
I cannot think things out too well.
Why it was ever forgotten for even a moment I cannot say because it works perfectly for everyone, no matter whether he has short or long thigh-bone lengths!!

I and accomplish
I was surprised at Mayor Miriani's defeat, but perhaps Mayor-elect Cavanagh can accomplish some things that should have been done years ago.
" I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no commandment unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them.
I like to take my players watch drum corps to show them what they can accomplish with hard work and teamwork.
He appealed to ALA members to donate books and volunteer for service, and by June 1918 the association had purchased 300, 000 books, sent 1, 349, 000 gift books to camps, and distributed 500, 000 magazines .” In the time after World War I, the services of the Library of Congress towards the war effort provided a new outlook for the American public on the possibilities of what a successful library could accomplish.
I managed to accomplish this.
The novelty of the invention is the focus ; while the invention may in the end accomplish some good, that social end is usually far from the inventor's mind ... inventions seem to be either for the military, especially during World War I ( giant cannon, aerial warship, war tank, and air scout ) or for the wealthy, who buy the Swift Pigeon Special as a private plane, all contributing to the bottom line for Swift Enterprises ... invention is an avocation, a diversion, made possible by wealth and the already existing advanced technology.
Harriman liquidates his assets, risks bankruptcy, damages his marriage, and raises funds in numerous legitimate and semi-legitimate ways ; " I ," he says, " would cheat, lie, steal, beg, bribedo anything to accomplish what we have accomplished.
If I hadn ’ t approved it — if I had let Slovik accomplish his purpose — I don ’ t know how I could have gone up to the line and looked a good soldier in the face.
In a well-known letter to Arnold Ruge, Karl Marx wrote: " if constructing the future and settling everything for all times are not our affair, it is all the more clear what we have to accomplish at present: I am referring to ruthless criticism of all that exists, ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid of the results it arrives at and in the sense of being just as little afraid of conflict with the powers that be.
I feel I have nothing left to accomplish.
" I'm a very hopeful person and I think we can accomplish a lot through film in the ' 90s.
In the investigation it appeared evident to the council that the proprietors were a set of unprincipled men, lawless, debouchees, counterfeiters, Bogus Makers, gamblers, peace disturbers, and that the grand object of said proprietors was to destroy our constitutional rights and chartered privileges ; to overthrow all good and wholesome regulations in society ; to strengthen themselves against the municipality ; to fortify themselves against the church of which I am a member, and destroy all our religious rights and privileges, by libels, slanders, falsehoods, perjury & sticking at no corruption to accomplish their hellish purposes.
We recognized that he was not only an unusually gifted man, but that he had the indefinable something that marks the man who has worked seriously upon himself ... Knowing Reggie to be a very cautious man, trained moreover in assessing information by many years in the Intelligence Service, I accepted his assurances and also his belief that Shah had a very important mission in the West that we ought to help him to accomplish.
He once said " When I saw how little we accomplished with World War I, I thought, why in the devil kill off another whole generation of young men to accomplish the same result?
I still have a lot to accomplish.
" I think that's the single most important thing I was ever able to accomplish as a result of something I've written ", she wrote in her autobiography.

I and if
I just can't take any chances on getting her pregnant, and if we were sleeping together ''
As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.
When I asked him what, if anything, I could do about it, he surprised me by referring me to the director of the hall.
`` Damned if I will.
Besides, 'tain't no more'n right for me to follow with my black oxen, so's I can unhook and pull up fast if either of you get in a pinch ''.
But Johnson couldn't quickly unwire the truck door, and if I escaped, he might suffer.
But I promised Joyce I would mention her name, if at all, only as a last resort.
You must forgive me if I seem to dwell too much on her physical aspects but I am an artist, accustomed to studying the physical body.
I felt that her eyes were undressing me as if she were a painter and I a nude model.
I quit work at my usual hour as if this day was no different from other days.
And I will greatly appreciate it if you will not tell your husband.
But a young American has a bath next to his room and I shall ask him if you might use it this once.
`` Or do you want to see if I can stand fever, too ''??
The big man with the whitened hair murmured something: his words sounded as if they were in the Manu tongue, which I recognized, having studied the dialect in my Anthropology 6, class at the University of Chicago.
`` Why '', he went on, `` when Rob asked me if he could make his dive on this trip, I didn't think twice about it.
`` If you will pardon, I think it would be better if not.
and if a poll had been taken immediately following the dispatch of troops to Little Rock I believe the majority would have been for the Old South.
I asked Wisman what would happen if he broke out the go codes and tried to start transmitting one.
I do not know if such a way of life can come to be a self-conscious challenge, but I suspect that it can.

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