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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 none
We don't none of us want no trouble.
We also note that none of the formulas here require the duration of to be limited to the period, P or N. But that is a common situation, in practice.
We shall ask none.
We repeat, then, in the light of this recapitulation of events, almost too recent to be called history, but which are familiar to us all, and on the most casual examination of the language of these amendments, no one can fail to be impressed with the one pervading purpose found in them all, lying at the foundation of each, and without which none of them would have been even suggested ; we mean the freedom of the slave race, the security and firm establishment of that freedom, and the protection of the newly made freeman and citizen from the oppressions of those who had formerly exercised unlimited dominion over him.
We could thus craft disastrous policies that would be worse for nobody, because none of the same people would exist under the different policies.
We may support one of the smaller clubs in the UK, but our pride and passion shown on and off the terrace is second to none ".
In Dune, Paul's suspicions are confirmed when Stilgar admits to Jessica that " We bribe the Guild with a monstrous payment in spice to keep our skies clear of satellites and such that none may spy what we do to the face of Arrakis.
And those who are firmly grounded in knowledge say: ' We believe in the Book ; the whole of it is from our Lord :' and none will grasp the Message except men of understanding.
We know from habitats around the world that soft bodied organisms may form 30 % to 100 % of the biota, however most fossil assembalges preserve none of this unseen diversity.
We all want the things which the factory produces and none of us is sensitive enough to care how much in human values the efficiency of the modern factory costs.
The quote " We are none of us infallible, not even the youngest of us " is attributed to Thompson and is recorded in Collections and Recollections by George W. E. Russell ( 1898 ) and also in Trinity College An Historical Sketch by G. M.
We have heard various ways, but none that sounded so naturally and well as by accenting the second syllable, thus Ma-zom-anie, the accent as in Menominee.
We find in it little of the exaggeration and grotesqueness, and none of the fierce political enthusiasm, of which the designs of James Gillray are so full.
In a statement, the Board said of the mistakes that " We deplore them ... none of the investigator's findings is material his ability to do his job.
We believe that none but regularly Baptized members have the right to commune at the Lord's Table, and no one has the right to administer the ordinance of the Gospel, except he be legally called and qualified.
We declare we will have none such acknowledged as lawful magistrates over us ; we will have none but such as are for the advancement of piety, and the suppression of impiety and wickedness.
We cannot say whether Scott had any particular variation in mind ; he professed to have a good ear for time but little or none for tune.
" Ricky Valentine said he was desperate to leave the Dream Center: " We can't get none of the cash benefits because we're staying here.
We none of us know ; and we should be thoroughly on our guard against all those who pretend that they do.
We know it well that none of us acting alone can achieve success.
We don't know how many we killed, but they got what they deserved, because none of them were left standing when we'd finished with them.
This is in contrast to the attitude, cited by Heraclitus: " We will have none best among us ; if any among us would be the best, let him be so elsewhere and among others.
We have memories of the past, and none of the future.

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