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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 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 worried
We worried about that too, because we see all these reports
.

were very
worried and told me, '
We realize
that we signed a contract
with you and you can
do anything you want
.

"
We are, however,
worried at
the dawn of
the twenty-first century, at
the emergence of an irrational ideology which is opposed to scientific and industrial progress and impedes economic and social development
.

"
We are worried about possible reprisals here if
the Maoists continue to target Indians inside Nepal ," said a senior police official
.
We worried it and harried our actors
with it for months
.
We only had one hit —" Mr
. Brightside "— and were
worried in case no one showed
.

However, in an interview
with Time magazine, Boris Behncke, a German researcher at
the University of Catania's department of geological sciences in Sicily, said: Geologically speaking, it's a possibility, But geology has a very long time scale ...
We really should not be too
worried.

" She also said she
worried about the state budget: "
We do have a history of overspending in Ohio
.
We and about
`` We ain't got nothing to talk
about.
We talk
about national character in
the same way
that Copernicus talked of
the compulsions of celestial bodies to move in circles
.
We experience a vague uneasiness
about events, a suspicion
that our political and economic institutions, like
the genie in
the bottle, have escaped confinement and
that we have lost
the power to recall
them.

There is, of course, nothing new
about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also
the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as
the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to
the twentieth century and Zamiatin's
We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's
`` The Machine Stops
'', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before
the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine,
`` A Story Of The Days To Come
'', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's
`` With Folded Hands
'' ( 1947 ),
the classic story of men replaced by their own robots
.
We ran east for
about half a mile before we turned back to
the road, panting from
the effort and soaked
with sweat
.
We in this Department must think
about foreign policy in its total context
.
We used
the latter equipped
with a carborundum disk
about
We have learned a lot
-- a dash of hydrochemistry here, a bit
about plumbing and pump-priming there
.
We have set up a central R & D department, as well as engineering-management departments
-- about 80
people working on problems related to those of our plants
.
We didn't even know
them till
about a month after we moved
-- at
that time, they had called on us, after I met Fran at a PTA meeting, and had taken us in hand socially
.
We had entertained exaggerated ideas
about our victory automatically establishing our system throughout
the world
.
`` We were troubled
about the fate of
the Baltic States
.
We, ourselves,
are always eager to know how others feel
about us and
the way in which we live
.
We have learned from earthquakes much of
what we now know
about the earth's interior, for they send waves through
the earth which emerge
with information
about the materials through which they have traveled
.
`` We want to find out who knew
about it
'', Pratt said
.
We should not allow
the image of an immanent end brought
about indirectly by our own action in
the continuing human struggle for a just endurable order of existence to blind us to
the fact
that in
some measure accelerating
the end of our lease
may be one consequence among others of many other of mankind's thrusts toward we know not
what future
.
`` We could put up cribs on
the second floor sleeping porch and turn
the front bedroom into a playroom where it's nice and sunny, but of course it would entail quite a bit of running up and down stairs and Chris said you were to be careful
about that ''.
We have learned much
about interstellar drives since a hundred years ago ; ;
We never learn anything
about her husband, but we
do know
that she hates alcohol and public appearances, and has a great fondness for apples until she is put off
them by
the events of Hallowe ' en Party
.

"
We hardly earn
the bread ", wrote Abby May to her brother, "
the butter we have to think
about.

In July, Alcott announced their plans in The Dial: "
We have made an arrangement
with the proprieter of an estate of
about a hundred acres, which liberates this tract from human ownership ".
We know from a reference in William Langland's Piers Plowman,
that ballads
about Robin Hood were being sung from at least
the late 14th century and
the oldest detailed material we have is Wynkyn de Worde's collection of Robin Hood ballads printed
about 1495
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