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We and cannot
We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being acutely aware of the confusion.
We have proved so able to solve technological problems that to contend we cannot realize a universal goal in the immediate future is to be extremely shortsighted, if nothing else.
We cannot truthfully say of anyone who has succeeded in entering deep into his sixties that he was never old.
We can force Britain and France out of the Suez, but we cannot so much as try to force the Russian tanks back from Budapest.
We can vote in the UN against South African apartheid or Portuguese rule in Angola, but we cannot even introduce a motion on the Berlin Wall -- much less, give the simple order to push the Wall down.
We cannot regard foreign policy as something left over after defense policy or trade policy or fiscal policy has been extracted.
We cannot test public opinion until the President and the leaders of the country have gone to the public to explain what is required and have asked them for support for the necessary action.
We note that two such curves C and Af, cannot coincide at more than a finite number of points ; ;
We cannot now speak of maximizing the value of the objective function, since this function is now known only in a probabilistic sense.
We cannot consider ourselves educated if we do not read ; ;
We cannot, of course, assign it any substance.
We may show, first, that there cannot possibly be an alternative other than the three typically represented by Bultmann, Barth, and Buri.
We cannot take the space to record all the efforts for the removal or alleviation of collective ills.
We must yield to the divine will, he says ; we cannot pick and choose and accept only what we can understand.
We cannot possibly conceive an ' is ' except as belonging to some thing that is, or exists.
Said Romney: " We simply cannot live in a setting where a project of this scale has the potential of threatening human life, as has already been seen ".
In 1944, Jones wrote to John Walvoord of Dallas Theological Seminary that while the university had " no objection to educational work highly standardized …. We, however, cannot conscientiously let some group of educational experts or some committee of experts who may have a behavioristic or atheistic slant on education control or even influence the administrative policies of our college.
We are in an age of rearmaments, but we on this side cannot accept that position ".
We cannot define a point except as ' something with no parts ', nor blindness except as ' the absence of sight in a creature that is normally sighted '.
The words were given in response to the Latin maxim: " Ignoramus et ignorabimus " or " We do not know, we cannot know ":
We cannot tell at what date the book received its present form, since there are no clear historical allusions in it.
" We simply cannot do without auxiliary constructions ", as Theodor Fontane once said ... dwelling on imaginary wish fulfillments '.
We cannot build a water-tight theology promising physical healing, surely, for the most ' miracle-ridden ' Christian will die in the end, yielding to the natural processes of senescence.
We cannot understand today, but it was not taken seriously at all.

We and conceive
We can conceive of no alternatives.
We neither conceive them, nor think them, nor cognize them in any way, as a thing apart, but solely as forming, in combination with numerous other attributes, the idea of an individual object ".
We conceive the abstract idea of life in terms of our experiences of a journey, a year, or a day.
We first notice this in the beginning, when she cannot conceive that Moon Orchid may have aged in the past 30 years.
We must seek to give them civilization in the highest sense that we can conceive of it .”
" We accept it ," wrote Weismann, " not because we are able to demonstrate the process in detail ... but simply because we must, because it is the only possible explanation that we can conceive.
We conceive of the individual animal as a small world, existing for its own sake, by its own means.
: We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep ;
We can't conceive of an inch – long line being divided into a thousand parts, much less infinities of infinities.
We avoid thereby the dubious mythological and psychological connotations of the term: archetype — since the term ‘ type-image ’ admits the possibility of a historical succession of types without implying the existence of a unique prototype supposed to be the underlying substratum of all literary forms referring to a primordial ‘ myth .’ The proposed new term retains the idea of uniformity and recurrence inherent in the idea of ‘ archetype ’ but makes us conceive literature as a culturally conditioned phenomenon valued not because of mythical uniformity but because of appreciation of historically varying originality ” ( Rieser 1962: 109 ).

We and Oedipus
He knows that this is the result of Oedipus ' curse on his sons, and begs his father to relent, even going so far as to say " We share the same fate " to his father.
When the messenger turned back to look at the spot where Oedipus last stood, he says that " We couldn't see the man-he was gone-nowhere!

We and without
As Madison commented to Jefferson in 1789, `` We are in a wilderness without a single footstep to guide us.
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 have two media for publicizing individual technical activity, a magazine widely distributed both within and without the company, and an information bulletin for engineering personnel distributed to the homes of all engineers.
Sunday he had added, `` We can love Eisenhower the man, even if we considered him a mediocre president but there is nothing left of the Republican Party without his leadership ''.
We must not permit our society to become a slave to the scientific age, as might well happen without the cultural and spiritual restraint that comes from the development of the human mind through wisdom absorbed from the written word.
`` We hope '', they said, `` that no family can be found amongst us without a correct version of the Holy Scriptures ''.
We are often told that the Comedie has, unfortunately, life-contracts with old actors who are both mediocre and lazy, drawing their pay without much acting but probably doing real service to the Comedie by staying off the stage.
We also allow for an empty set, often denoted Ø and sometimes: a set without any members at all.
:"< sup >†</ sup > We shall use the expression ' computable function ' to mean a function calculable by a machine, and let ' effectively calculable ' refer to the intuitive idea without particular identification with any one of these definitions.
:" We do not believe that he ever had a church on earth without revealing himself to that church: consequently, there were apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers, in the same.
We are hard-pressed to find an answer to such a question without knowing more about the audience in question.
An eighteenth-century response to the novel from the Monthly Review reads: “ We must hear no more of enchanted forests and castles, giants, dragons, walls of fire and other ‘ monstrous and prodigious things ;’ – yet still forests and castles remain, and it is still within the province of fiction, without overstepping the limits of nature, to make use of them for the purpose of creating surprise .”
We axiomatize predicate calculus without equality, i. e. there are no special axioms expressing the properties of equality as a special relation symbol.
Despite his proclamations that, " I like a jealous wife ," " We get on so well together ( because ) we don't have illusions about each other ," and, " I wouldn't give you two cents for a dame without a temper ," it was a highly destructive relationship.
We cannot approach the noumenon, the " thing in Itself " () without our own mental world.
" We are left alone, without excuse.
" He continued, " We may question without end what it means, but few of us question if the poem is worth the trouble, or whether the meaning is worth the having.
It is traditionally believed that the Second Ecumenical Council held in Constantinople in 381 added the section that follows the words " We believe in the Holy Spirit " ( without the words " and the Son " relative to the procession of the Holy Spirit, which would become a point of contention in the Great Schism of Orthodoxy from Catholicism ); hence the name " Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed ", referring to the Creed as modified in the First Council of Constantinople.
We can assume without loss of generality that and are pure ensembles.
On this topic, he wrote,We must first stop the leak in the ship through which muddy waters from without threaten to sink us .”
We can assume without loss of generality that the support of each X < sub > i </ sub > is

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