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We are too apt to think that the war is burdensome only in proportion to what we are at the moment called to pay for it in taxes, without reflecting on the probable duration of such taxes.
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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 too
We would like to do that too ''.
We enjoyed a paradoxical freedom when we were still too young for school.
-- We won't be too long.
We do not want policy officers below the level of Presidential appointees to concern themselves too much with problems of domestic politics in recommending foreign policy action.
We know, too, that health is never harmed by summer cooling.
We find too many sales and marketing executives so burdened with detail that they are short-changing planning.
`` We grind, too '', he said.
We had tea at Mr. Washizu's home where I learned that he, too, comes from a very wealthy family.
We have so many new things to fear in this age of nuclear weapons, dreadful things which are too horrible to contemplate.
We can all breathe more easily this morning -- more easily and joyously, too -- because Joshua Logan has turned the stage show, `` Fanny '', into a delightful and heart-warming film.
We can die, too, we can die like real people.
We make them doubt that they too are children of God – and this must be nearly the ultimate blasphemy.
After filming Apocalypse Now, Coppola famously stated: " We were in the jungle, there were too many of us, we had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane.
Department head Yong-ping Lee ( 李永萍 ) stated, " We will promote graffiti starting with the public sector, and then later in the private sector too.
After the defeat of the Howard government at the 2007 federal election, Fraser claimed Howard approached him in a corridor, following a cabinet meeting in May 1977 regarding Vietnamese refugees, and said: " We don't want too many of these people.
We must remember too that any particular weapon ... had everywhere a different name.
We can trace them in the documents, but in the archeology and in the toponymy too.
" We figured we could win if our offense didn't put us into too many holes ", said 35-year old Colts lineman Billy Ray Smith, who was playing in his last NFL game, " Let me put it this way, they didn't put us into any holes we couldn't get out of "
We sat and talked and drank coffee and shot rubber bands and after much too much time someone said -- most likely Ralph -- " We don't have a Snowball chance in hell of finding a name ".
We worried about that too, because we see all these reports.
An official Viz spokesman said “ We are too busy laughing to comment ”.
We thought him too apt to wrangle in the spirit of a duo-decimo lawyer over small points of the game.
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