After another long pause he asked, `` How many people know who they are ''??

those who wrote them knew people and what made people tick.

In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.

Accidental war is so sensitive a subject that most of the people who could become directly involved in one are told just enough so they can perform their portions of incredibly complex tasks.

To their leaders the Constitution was a compact made by the people of sovereign states, who therefore retained the right to secede from it.

The fact that the Americans who upheld the sovereignty of their states did this in order to keep many of their people more securely in slavery -- the antithesis of individual liberty -- made the conflict grimmer, and the greater.

The 140,414 Americans who gave `` the last full measure of devotion '' to prevent disunion, preserved individual freedom in the United States from the dangers of anarchy, inherent in confederations, which throughout history have proved fatal in the end to all associations composed primarily of sovereign states, and to the liberties of their people.

Presumably a cocktail party is expected to fulfill the host's desire to get together a number of people who are inadequately acquainted and thereby arrange for bringing the level of acquaintance up to adequacy for future cooperative endeavors.

The dweller at p is last to hear about a new cure, the slowest to announce to his neighbors his urgent distresses, the one who goes the farthest to trade, and the one with the greatest difficulty of all in putting over an idea or getting people to join him in a cooperative effort.

But, for practical purposes, we have people who can be considered as such.

At first glance this appears strange: of all people, was not America founded by rugged individualists who established a new way of life still inspiring `` undeveloped '' societies abroad??

In truth, we can say that this broke the power of Senator Joseph McCarthy, who was finally exposed in full light to the American people.

If he had been `` liquidated '' in some way, he would have become a martyr, a rallying point for people who shared his ideas.

But the fact remains that even the unconscious acceptance of himself as a man of destiny divinely protected must be censored in any man who evades the responsibility for his major decisions, and thus for imposing his will on the people.

Although it is constantly made to look foolish ( too simple to come in out of the rain, people say, who have found in the innocent an impediment ), it does not mind looking foolish because it is not concerned with how it looks.

This of course was not true of the educated and sophisticated people we met, who loved their pets, but kindness is not a basic human instinct.

I found myself becoming one of that group of people who, in Carlyle's words, `` are forever gazing into their own navels, anxiously asking ' Am I right, am I wrong ' ''??

There are some people, intelligent people, who seem to be untouched by the sea of wonder in which we are immersed and in which we spend our lives.

The students who are most willing to acquiesce in the suppression of civil liberties are also those who are most likely to be prejudiced against minority groups, to be conformist and traditionalistic in general social attitudes, and to lack a basic faith in people.

In spite of his being well liked there were a few people who were very careful about Alfred.

One of the people who was afraid of Alfred was his own brother, Lew.

To people who didn't know her she was a gawky, badly dressed kid whose arms were too long, whose legs were a little too bony.

Being ethical and professional people interested in community health and well-being, we felt this wasn't a function of our position.

They were, I felt, people invariably trying to prove not who, but what they were, and trying to determine what, not who, others were.

The peace of the community was badly disturbed, and people across the nation, reading of the incident, felt uneasy.

They knew that I was still grieving over the tragic event, and they felt that if I could see the recovery and the spirit of the people, who hold no grudge, but who also regret Pearl Harbor, I would be happier and would understand better a new Japan.

At that time, the people at the bank said they felt that they had the situation in hand.

He was an attentive and generous husband, overgenerous, a lot of people felt, because they knew that money must be a problem to him.

She felt, and said, that sympathy only made people feel sorry for themselves ; ;

In addition, the effects of the 1988 earthquake, which killed more than 25, 000 people and made 500, 000 homeless, are still being felt.

Sartori says that people who went through out-of-body experiences felt as if they floated above themselves and were able to accurately recount what had happened in the room even though their bodily eyes were closed.

Carroll ultimately replaced this scene in the book with the Caucus race, as he felt that it would only have been funny to the people familiar with the incident.

The castaways felt that the people had a sense of crisis to their situation.

For the remainder of his life, although he was passionately devoted to Hungary, its people and its culture, he never felt much loyalty to the government or its official establishments.

Kante created N ’ Ko in response to what he felt were beliefs that Africans were a " cultureless people " since prior to this time there had been no indigenous African writing system for his language.

According to Ivinskaya, " He began to say what an authentic event the funeral was -- an expression of what people really felt, and so characteristic of the Russia which stoned its prophets and did its poets to death as a matter of longstanding tradition.

They also felt that it would give ammunition to those who were advocating repatriating black people back to Africa.

Plutarch is the source also for the story that the victorious Spartan generals, having planned the demolition of Athens and the enslavement of its people, grew merciful after being entertained at a banquet by lyrics from Euripides's play Electra: " they felt that it would be a barbarous act to annihilate a city which produced such men " ( Life of Lysander )

Organizations like the Boy Scouts of America rose, even amidst concerns by opponents of the progressive movement in the United States, because some people felt that social welfare of young men should be maintained through education alone.

Earthquake warning systems have been developed that can provide regional notification of an earthquake in progress, but before the ground surface has begun to move, potentially allowing people within the system's range to seek shelter before the earthquake's impact is felt.

Despite Francis ' different religion, he felt that they were good people, much like Europeans, and could be converted.

They considered homosexuality curable through therapy, citing modern scientism and the study of sexology, which said that homosexuality could be felt by " normal " people and not just an abnormal minority.

However, those programs were neither egalitarian nor universal, excluding many minority groups and other people whom they felt posed a threat to the future health of the German people.

Thus, in Chile, Argentina and the Canary Islands, godo was an ethnic slur used against European Spaniards, who in the early colony period often felt superior to the people born locally ( criollos ).

Even while the country enjoyed a degree of prosperity when compared to the famines of France and Germany in this period, the Visigoths felt little reason to contribute to the welfare, permanency, and infrastructure of their people and state.