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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 preventing
Lisa Power, corporate head of policy at the Terrence Higgins Trust, denounced the views of Pope Benedict XVI on the use of condoms to prevent AIDS and said: " We deeply regret the continued misinformation around condoms, which remain the most effective way of preventing the spread of HIV.
In R. A. Lafferty's story " Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne ", Ganelon is killed by time travelers from the future before having carried out his act of treachery-with the result of preventing the Battle of Roncevaux Pass, bringing about a rapprochement and cultural exchanges between Christians and Muslims, and letting the Renaissance come several centuries ahead of schedule.
We believe facilitating argument and understanding across geographical boundaries is vital to preventing injustice ".

We and averting
We have no way of averting or halting their advance — we can only keep them secret.

We and phenomena
We devote a chapter to the binomial distribution not only because it is a mathematical model for an enormous variety of real life phenomena, but also because it has important properties that recur in many other probability models.
Ptolemy ( c. AD 90 – c. AD 168 ) stated " We consider it a good principle to explain the phenomena by the simplest hypothesis possible ",.
We have to study each ethnological specimen individually in its history and in its medium .... By regarding a single implement outside of its surroundings, outside of other inventions of the people to whom it belongs, and outside of other phenomena affecting that people and its productions, we cannot understand its meanings .... Our objection ... is, that classification is not explanation.
We find ourselves in a strange world, between two orders of phenomena which do not belong to us, which we apprehend only on the condition of our distinguishing ourselves from them.
We now know that these are the sodium, potassium and other ions which are responsible for electric membrane phenomena in excitable celles.
This is true for all sciences: the goal is to connect a “ natural phenomenon ” with its “ immediate cause .” We formulate hypotheses elucidating, as we see it, the relation of cause and effect for particular phenomena.
We have exhausted the natural phenomena.
We have two phenomena to look out for:
:" We found that when colors were equiluminant, subjects saw reddish greens, bluish yellows, or a multistable spatial color exchange ( an entirely novel perceptual phenomena ); when the colors were nonequiluminant, subjects saw spurious pattern formation.
We firmly believe that there is no residuum of cases which indicates Phenomena which are attributable to foreign artifacts capable of hostile acts, and that there is no evidence that the phenomena indicates a need for the revision of current scientific concepts.
Four conclusions result from these premisses: ( 1 ) Mind or spirit is the efficient cause in nature ; ( 2 ) We should investigate the final causes or purposes of things ; ( 3 ) We should study the history of nature and make observations and experiments in order to draw useful general conclusions ; ( 4 ) We should observe the phenomena that we see in order to discover general laws of nature in order to deduce other phenomena from them.
Staub commented that the early focus of RRC, as with other seminaries, was not on questions of meaning but “ We were going for the original, objective, dispassionate description of phenomena .” But this expansion enabled the faculty to begin working with students as spiritual people and future leaders.
Carolla walks in the woods with a guy who looks somewhat like Benjamin Franklin, and plays straight man as the " 1780s guy " questions current phenomena such as metrosexuals (" We call them homosexuals ") and Oprah Winfrey (" Nubian sorceress ").
Early in the nineteenth century, classic papers by Humphry Davy, Michael Faraday and James Prescott Joule enlivened the journal ’ s pages, and in the 1860s, James Clerk Maxwell contributed several long articles, culminating in a paper containing the deduction that light is an electromagnetic wave or, as he put it himself,We can scarcely avoid the inference that light consists in transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena ’.

We and such
We use terms from our personal experience with individuals such as `` trust '', `` cheat '', and `` get tough ''.
`` We were possessed by visions of a new civilization to come, very pure and elevated '', he has said, `` in fact some ideal form of socialism such as we had dreamed of since the war of 1914-1918 ''.
We need not, to be sure, expect to find such ideas in every piece of literature.
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 fail to see how such procedure resulted in any prejudice to petitioner's contention, which was considered by the appeal board and denied by it.
We want no part in such discussions, because we think them largely futile ; ;
We could put a portion of our strategic bombers in such shelters.
`` We, the Subscribers, do agree, that as soon as a convenient Number of Persons have subscribed to this, or a similar Writing, We will present a petition to the Hon'ble General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, praying for an Act incorporating into a Body politic the subscribers to such Writing with Liberty to build such a Bridge, and a Right to demand a Toll equal to that received at Malden Bridge, and on like Terms, and if such an Act shall be obtained, then we severally agree each with the others, that we will hold in the said Bridge the several shares set against our respective Names, the whole into two hundred shares being divided, and that we will pay such sums of Money at such Times and in such Manners, as by the said proposed Corporation, shall be directed and required ''.
We have seen good new products shelved because no one had the assignment to develop such facts and plans -- and management couldn't make up its mind.
We have discovered that the outward trappings such as private offices and private secretaries are extremely important ; ;
We shall find a polynomial Af such that Af is the identity on Af and is zero on the other Af, and so that Af, etc..

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