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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 forbidden
We were forbidden to swing on the gates, lest they sag on their hinges in a poor-white-trash way, but we could stand on them, when they were latched, rest our chins on the top, and stare and stare, committing to memory, quite unintentionally, all the details that lay before our eyes.
We forbid marriages between blood-relatives because they are forbidden by the divine and secular laws.
We also forbid all our subjects, of whatever quality and condition, from carrying off by force or persuasion, against the will of their parents, the children of the said religion, in order to cause them to be baptized or confirmed in the Catholic Apostolic and Roman Church ; and the same is forbidden to those of the said religion called Reformed, upon penalty of being punished with especial severity ....
We cannot ask for that which is forbidden in Islam.
Fackenheim holds that the Holocaust reveals unto us a new Biblical commandment, " We are forbidden to hand Hitler posthumous victories ".
" We say that suicide operations now, in the present times, all of them are without legislation and all of them are forbidden.
< BLOCKQUOTE > We call you to be a people of manners, principles, honour, and purity ; to reject the immoral acts of fornication, homosexuality, intoxicants, gambling's, and trading with interest (...) You separate religion from your policies, (...) You are the nation that permits Usury, which has been forbidden by all the religions (...) You are a nation that permits the production, trading and usage of intoxicants (...) You are a nation that permits acts of immorality (...) You are a nation that permits gambling in its all forms.
We start with a three-state Λ-type system, where and are dipole-allowed transitions and is forbidden.
We are forbidden, finally, to despair of the world as the place which is to become the kingdom of God, lest we help make it a meaningless place in which God is dead or irrelevant and everything is permitted.
The nucleus of the forbidden blessing read: ' We bless this bread into the sacramental body and this wine into the sacramental blood of our Lord Jesus Christ ,' etc.
We know that the language was in trouble in the face of Croatian expansion, as the Ragusan Senate decided that all debates had to be held in Lingua veteri ragusea ( ancient Romance Ragusan language ) and the use of the lingua sclava ( Croatian ) was forbidden.

We and thirdly
We observed that tithes are due to the parson of common right unless by special exemption ; let us therefore see, thirdly, who may be exempted or discharged from the payment of tithes, either in part or totally ; first by a real composition ; or secondly, by custom or prescription.

We and deny
We would lose our export markets and deny ourselves the imports we need.
We have heard that after seeing Mr. Quasimodo's work it will be virtually impossible to deny the artistic validity and importance of the whole abstract movement.
We do not deny originality to the Agamemnon because Aeschylus found the tales of the house of Atreus among the folk lore of the Greeks.
We technically deny involvement in Chadian internal affairs.
Poe correctly predicted that Longfellow's reputation and style of poetry would decline, concluding that " We grant him high qualities, but deny him the Future ".
In response to the claim in Whewell's treatise that " We may thus, with the greatest propriety, deny to the mechanical philosophers and mathematicians of recent times any authority with regard to their views of the administration of the universe ", Charles Babbage published what he called The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise, A Fragment.
Greeley was an abolitionist, and Wheeler continued, " We hold the right of self-government even when invoked in behalf of those who deny it to others.
We further deny that scientific hypotheses about earth history may properly be used to overturn the teaching of Scripture on creation and the flood.
The 25th anniversary issue of Biblical Archeological Review ( March / April 2001 edition ), editor Hershel Shanks quoted several biblical scholars who insisted that minimalism was dying, although leading minimalists deny this and a claim has been made " We are all minimalists now ".
His views were explicitly racist, negroes were " an innately inferior people " opining " We deny that it is a crime, or a wrong, or even a peccadillo to hold slaves, to buy slaves, to keep slaves to their work by flogging or other needful correction.
We have given to us a conception A uniting among its constituent marks two that prove to be contradictory, say M and N ; and we can neither deny the unity nor reject one of the contradictory members.
During the Detroit mayoral election of 1925, Niebuhr's sermon, " We fair-minded Protestants cannot deny ", was published on the front pages of both the Detroit Times and the Free Press.
The name, which by an ingenious afterthought is explained as “ the fore thinker ,” is originally the sanskrit pramantha and means “ twirler ” or “ fire-stick ,” being the rod of hard wood which produced fire by rapid rotation in a piece of soft wood .< p > We cannot deny that the myth must have been known also in Mesopotamia, the main center of civilization between India and Greece, and it becomes probable that the figure Sui-Jen has been derived from the same prototype as the Greek Prometheus.
We deny that there are any isolated human problems.
We shall no longer deny our responsibility as soldiers of the Israeli DEFENSE force.
We can accept it, assert it, believe it, command it, contest it, declare it, deny it, doubt it, enjoin it, exclaim it, expect it.
" There is no crime that whiteness has not committed against people of colour ... We must blame whiteness for the continuing patterns today ... which damage and prevent the humanity of those of us within it ... We must blame whiteness for the continuing patterns today that deny the rights of those outside of whiteness and which damage and pervert the humanity of those of us within it .”
We, the Jews, deny it.
" An LVMH spokesman told the satirical magazine Le Canard Enchainé: " We don't deny the facts, but regrettably the author has exaggerated the Vichy episode.
LaRouche was asked how he expected a party with a five-year record of harassment and threats to win the election ; he did not deny the incidents, but replied, " We are only engaged in an open political attack.
We may not deny this past.
* In Thesis one ( Sola Scriptura ), the text asserts We deny that any creed, council or individual may bind a Christian's conscience.
* In Thesis four ( Sola Fide ), the text asserts We deny that justification rests on any merit to be found in us, or upon the grounds of an infusion of Christ's righteousness in us, or that an institution claiming to be a church that denies or condemns sola fide can be recognized as a legitimate church.

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