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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 conceive of Oedipus without a Sphinx, nor of Hamlet without a Ghost.
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 surely
We must attack Russia, or they will surely attack us!
We certainly do not have any experience of minds creating physical objects out of nothing ; from a first-person perspective, we surely have no experience or idea of what that would even be like.
* ' A defeatist attitude now would surely lead to defeat ... We can't opt out of the future.
" Kierkegaard puts it this way in another book, " We shall not say with the Preacher ( Ecclesiastes 4: 10 ), ‘ Woe to him who is alone ; if he falls, there is no one else to raise him up ,” for God is indeed still the one who both raises up and casts down, for the one who lives in association with people and the solitary one ; we shall not cry, “ Woe to him ,” but surely an “ Ah, that he might not go astray ,” because he is indeed alone in testing himself to see whether it is God ’ s call he is following or a voice of temptation, whether defiance and anger are not mixed embitteringly in his endeavor.
We must surely learn, from both our past and present history, how careful we must be not to provoke the anger of the native people by doing them wrong, how we should be cautious in our dealings with a foreign people among whom we returned to live, to handle these people with love and respect and, needless to say, with justice and good judgment.
We found that modern mechanical invention, instead of disenchanting the universe, had really afforded the means of exploring its marvels the more surely.
You have indeed fulfilled the vision ; surely thus do We reward those who do good.
We know where it surely resides — in ourselves ; we know where it exists beyond a reasonable doubt — in those animals of structure resembling ours which rapidly adapt themselves to the lessons of experience.
After the angel left, Manoah tells his wife, " We shall surely die, because we have seen God.
( 3 ) And We conveyed to the Children of Israel in the Scripture that, " You will surely cause corruption on the earth twice, and you will surely reach degree of great haughtiness.
We also learn that the sole family income is derived from a sweet stall in the local market — an enterprise that is surely well beneath Jimmy's education, let alone Alison's " station in life ".
We have appointed you, with all convenient diligence to repair unto the said cathedral church, and to take away the shrine and bones of that bishop called Saint Richard, with all ornaments to the said shrine belonging, and all other the reliques and reliquaries, the silver, the gold, and all the jewels belonging to said shrine, and that not only shall you see them to be safely and surely conveyed unto our Tower of London there to be bestowed and placed at your arrival, but also ye shall see both the place where the shrine was kept, destroyed even to the ground and all such other images of the said church, where about any notable superstition is used, to be carried and conveyed away, so that our subjects shall by them in no ways be deceived hereafter, but that they, pay to Almighty God and to no earthly creature such honour as is due unto him the Creator.
( O Prophet ,) surely We have given to you Al-Kauthar ( a lake in Paradise ).
We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope ; without it the life of the cities would drive all men into crime or drugs or psychoanalysis .”( 162 ) The wilderness is equal to freedom for Abbey, it is what separates him from others and allows him to have his connection with the planet.
Say: I do not ask of you any reward for it but love for my relatives ; and whoever earns good, We give him more of good therein ; surely Allah is Forgiving, Grateful.

We and mean
We seem to see things coming into being and passing from it ; but reflection tells us that decease and growth only mean a new aggregation ( synkrisis ) and disruption ( diakrisis ).
:"< 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 may take ( 1 ) to mean
" We seem to be justified in believing it to be true by virtue of our knowledge of what its terms mean.
We are uttering a mere tautology if we mean by ' in the mind ' the same as by ' before the mind ', i. e. if we mean merely being apprehended by the mind.
We imagine someone thinking very hard, with nothing in front of him ; and then the next moment there is something, like a tree, in front of him ; and, whatever this would mean, we imagine that his thoughts have caused the tree to appear in front of him.
We could use the phrase " physical anthropomorphism about God " to mean the belief that God has a body.
We now have 6 of the 12 observations remaining ; next, we calculate the arithmetic mean of these numbers:
We being life forms, cosmic destruction would mean the disappearance of all life.
On 6 January 1762, he wrote to Count Karl-Wilhelm Finck von Finckenstein, " We ought now to think of preserving for my nephew, by way of negotiation, whatever fragments of my territory we can save from the avidity of my enemies ", which means, if words mean anything, that he was resolved to seek a soldier's death on the first opportunity.
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 didn't mean it only every seven years.
We then interpret the phrase " lend me your ear " metaphorically to mean that the speaker wants the listener to grant the speaker temporary control over what the listener hears.
" We cheerfully speak of the ' Minyans ' when we mean a population that uses pottery we call ' Minyan '," although he was mistaken in saying that the Greeks themselves never mention the ' Minyans ' as a tribe or as a people.
We have a model of a liver made of bronze, whose religious significance is still a matter of heated debate, marked into sections which perhaps are meant to explain what a bump in that region would mean.
We first segment the data by the class, and then compute the mean and variance of in each class.
We like our clocks to run at a constant rate, so they cannot follow the actual sun ; instead they follow a " fictitious mean sun " that moves along the celestial equator at a constant rate, matching the real sun's average rate over the year.
Abstractly, we can say that D is a linear transformation from some vector space V to another one, W. We know that D ( c ) = 0 for any constant function c. We can by general theory ( mean value theorem ) identify the subspace C of V, consisting of all constant functions as the whole kernel of D. Then by linear algebra we can establish that D < sup >− 1 </ sup > is a well-defined linear transformation that is bijective on Im D and takes values in V / C.
This is supported by the morphology: " We are parked out back " does not mean that there are multiple cars ; rather, that there are multiple passengers ( having the property of being in possession of a car ).
We can then infer that the probability that it has between 600 and 1400 words ( i. e. within k = 2 SDs of the mean ) must be more than 75 %, because there is less than chance to be outside that range, by Chebyshev ’ s inequality.
* It has been known to be used to mean " We support our comrade who has been arrested.
In response, a Japanese website posted guidelines on how to write an English-language letter of protest to Google, and how to attack VANK's website ; they were quoted as stating, " We must fight against VANK ... We lost our sea, but this does not mean a defeat.

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