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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 long
A Yale historian, writing a few years ago in The Yale Review, said: `` We in New England have long since segregated our children ''.
We found that a charitable society in New York had a long case-history of the two ; ;
We all seek the same thing through different ways -- an end to this long night of two thousand years of darkness and unspeakable abuses which will continue to plague us until the Star of David flies over Zion ''.
-- We won't be too long.
`` We won't live long enough if I wait for you, besides which you don't need to worry -- there'll be plenty more ''.
We met at Maxine's and decided we were set to stay as long as it took, into or even through the evening, to talk things out.
We went into Mrs. Monmouth's library, which had low bookshelves all along the walls, and above them a Modigliani portrait, a Jackson Pollock twelve feet long, and a gorgeous Miro with a yellow background, that looked like an inscription from a Martian tomb.
Even his old literary home, Punch, where the When We Were Very Young verses had first appeared, was ultimately to reject him, as Christopher Milne details in his autobiography The Enchanted Places, although Methuen continued to publish whatever Milne wrote, including the long poem ' The Norman Church ' and an assembly of articles entitled Year In, Year Out ( which Milne likened to a benefit night for the author ).
:" We are not there because of our friendship, we are there because, like you, we believe it is right to be there and, like you, we shall stay there as long as it seems necessary to achieve the purposes of the South Vietnamese Government and the purposes that we join in formulating and progressing together.
* How Much Shall We Bet — A story about betting on the long term evolution of mankind.
As Cagney recalled, " We shot it in twenty days, and that was long enough for me.
We do not think about how long it takes to apply the force.
A Karaim of Trakai talking in Karaim language in a documentary says We, descendants of Khazars of Kipchaks, came to Lithuania from Crimea long time ago.
Savoy dancer " Shorty " George Snowden stated that " We used to call the basic step the Hop long before Lindbergh did his hop across the Atlantic.
After the signing of the Louisiana Purchase agreement in 1803, Livingston made this famous statement, " We have lived long, but this is the noblest work of our whole lives ... From this day the United States take their place among the powers of the first rank.
We know about his buildings in honor of St Felix from literary and archaeological evidence, especially from his long letter to Sulpicius Severus describing the arrangement of the building and its decoration.
* Fluid and solid character are relevant at long times :</ br > We consider the application of a constant stress ( a so-called creep experiment ):
Wells ' utopias long before he had heard of We.
He added: " We are in some danger of resting our position too exclusively upon the existence, the nature and the wishes of the inhabitants of the Falkland Islands ... if the population of the Falkland Islands did not desire to be British, the principle that the Queen wishes no unwilling subjects would long ago have prevailed ; but we should create great difficulties for ourselves in other contexts, as well as in this context, if we rested our action purely and exclusively on the notion of restoring tolerable, acceptable conditions and self-determination to our fellow Britons on the Falkland Islands ....
In his words, " We did long, grueling marches to toughen the men, plus refresher training in firearms and bayonet combat.
We will make amends ere long ;
When he played the Allegro of an unpublished piano concerto of his own in June 1852, Henry Chorley remarked, " We have met with no Englishman for whom we have so long been waiting than Mr. Bache.
" We thought we were angels for a long time and we didn't need PR firms.
An English version of the album was planned — as can be seen on the tape titled " Guns & Ammunition " in the " Dom andra " music video — but was cancelled, according to lead singer Joakim Berg: " We decided it was not worth it ( releasing the album in English ) when we realized we had sat in a tour bus for two long US-tours, and nothing had happened.
According to Theodore Roosevelt: " We have taken into our language the word prairie, because when our backwoodsmen first reached the land the Midwest and saw the great natural meadows of long grass — sights unknown to the gloomy forests wherein they had always dwelt — they knew not what to call them, and borrowed the term already in use among the French inhabitants.

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