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We and are
We are thirsty and hungry ; ;
We are very proud
of it ''
.

As Madison commented
to Jefferson
in 1789
, ``
We are in a wilderness without
a single footstep
to guide us
.
We began
by declaring
that all men
are created equal
.
We now practically read
it, all men
are created equal except Negroes
.
We are desperately
in the need
of such invention
, for man
is still very much at
the mercy
of man
.
We get some clue
from a few remembrances
of childhood and
from the circumstance
that we
are probably not much more afraid
of people now than man ever was
.
We are not now afraid
of atomic bombs
in the same way
that people once feared comets
.
We are worried about what people may do with them --
that some crazy fool may `` push
the button ''
.
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
.
We are forced
, in our behavior towards others
, to adopt empirically successful patterns
in toto because we have such
a minimal understanding
of their essential elements
.
We are already committed
to establishing man's supremacy over nature and everywhere on earth
, not merely
in the limited social-political-economical context we
are fond
of today
.
We are tempted
to blame others for our problems rather than look them straight
in the face and realize they
are of our own making and possible
of solution only
by ourselves with
the help
of desperately needed
, enlightened
, competent leaders
.
We are reminded
, however
, that freedom
of thought and discussion
, the unfettered exchange
of ideas
, is basic under our form
of government
.
We are also struck
by the fact that this story
of a boy's love for his mother does not offend
, while
the incestuous love
of the man
, Paul Morel
, sometimes repels
.
We have so completely entered
the child's fantasy
that his illness and his death
are the plausible and
the necessary conclusion
.
We feel uncomfortable at being bossed
by a corporation or
a union or
a television set
, but until we have some knowledge about these phenomena and what they
are doing
to us
, we can hardly learn
to control them
.
We and our friends
are, of course
, concerned with self-defense
.

``
We were requested
by the Secretary General
, as I understand
it, to discuss with you such matters as appear
to us
to be relevant
, and we
are not
of course either
a formal group or
a committee
in the sense
of being guided
by any rules or regulations
of the Secretariat
.

``
We are ready for your next mysterious assignment ''
, said Mr. Baer
to the Hetman
.
We are learning how
to do these things
in some
of the vast organized structures
of modern society ; ;
We are all
, though many
of us
are snobbish enough
to wish
to deny
it, in far closer sympathy with
the art
of the music-hall and picture-palace than with Chaucer and Cimabue
, or even Shakespeare and Titian
.
We and from
We use terms
from our personal experience with individuals such as `` trust ''
, `` cheat ''
, and `` get tough ''
.
We need
a doctrine
of imitation
to save us
from the solipsism and futility
of pure formalism
.
We had stopped before
a shop window
to assess its autumnal display
, when you suddenly turned
to me
, looking
up from beneath one
of your wrong hats
, and with your nervous `` ahem ''!!
We did our job
, Mr. Stavropoulos and Mr. De Seynes and myself
, taking evidence
from a number
of people ''
.
We may thus trace
the notion
of individual autonomy
from its manifestation
in religious practice and theological reflection through practical politics and political theory into literature and
the arts
.
We must avoid
the notion
, suggested
to some people
by examples such as those just mentioned
, that ideas
are `` units ''
in some way comparable
to coins or counters
that can
be passed intact
from one group
of people
to another or even
, for
that matter
, from one individual
to another
.
We would all meet at ten o'clock at
the Kehl bridge
, five miles
from Strasbourg
, and march triumphantly across into Germany
.
We therefore leave
the writer
to the enjoyment
of the unenvied reputation
which the personal abuse he has heaped on us will entitle him
to from the low and vulgar herd
to which he belongs ''
.

There
is, of course
, nothing new about dystopias
, for they belong
to a literary tradition
which, including
also the closely related satiric utopias
, stretches
from at least as far back as
the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels
to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's
We, Capek's War With The Newts
, Huxley's Brave New World
, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops ''
, C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength
, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
, and
which in science fiction
is represented before
the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy
, The Time Machine
, `` A Story Of The Days To Come ''
, and When The Sleeper Wakes
, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 )
, the classic story
of men replaced
by their own robots
.

``
We have just returned
from Roswell
, N.M.
, where we were defeated
, 34
to 9 ''
, the young man noted
.
We can't think
of anyone else who would want
to separate serious candidates
from other candidates
, either
.
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
.
We can force Britain and France out
of the Suez
, but we cannot so much as try
to force
the Russian tanks back
from Budapest
.
We don't 'low nigras
to walk on
the same sidewalk with white men where I come
from.
We were less than
a quarter
of a mile
from the road
, and we could trace its shape
from the ribbon
of powder smoke and dust
that hung over
it.
We ran east for about half
a mile before we turned back
to the road
, panting
from the effort and soaked with sweat
.
We moved down Broadway
from ginmill
to ginmill
.
We didn't have time
to speak before Eileen's voice was screeching at us
from the bed
.
We who
are living today may learn
a valuable lesson
from those who celebrated
the first Thanksgiving Day
.
We want
to stimulate ideas
from the bottom
to the top
of the Department
.
We should hope
that peace corps projects will
be truly international and
that our citizens will find themselves working alongside citizens
of the host country and
also volunteers
from other lands
.
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