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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 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 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 take
We may take her with us -- to California.
We take the position, however, that the third choice still remains the only sane one open to us.
We must build a corps of highly professional teachers of interior design who have had education, experience in the profession and are willing to take on the usual accompaniments of teaching -- minimal income and minimal status among their confreres.
We have every obligation to take seriously their claims to being democratic and free countries ; ;
We have emphasized that the modernizing process in each society will take a considerable period of time.
We take leave of Pumblechook as he gloats over Pip's loss of fortune, extending his hand `` with a magnificently forgiving air '' and exhibiting `` the same fat five fingers '', one of which he identifies with `` the finger of Providence '' and shakes at Pip in a canting imputation of the latter's `` ingratitoode '' and his own generosity as Pip's `` earliest benefactor ''.
We had nearly decided that all the tales of Lao lethargy must be true, when we were invited to take a trip with the Prime Minister.
We may now take up for consideration a hard case which seems to require either no action employing economic pressure or else action that would seem to violate the principles set forth above.
`` We can't take a chance on that.
Mrs. Molvar, who kept reiterating her request that they `` please take a stand '', said, `` We must have faith in somebody -- on the local level, and it wouldn't be possible for everyone to rush to a school to get their children ''.
We don't want to take the world by storm.
We can run the algorithm a constant number of times and take a majority vote to achieve any desired probability of correctness less than 1, using the Chernoff bound.
An early statement appeared in Discourse of the Common Wealth of this Realm of England, 1549: " We must always take heed that we buy no more from strangers than we sell them, for so should we impoverish ourselves and enrich them.
We sure not tryin ' to take credit for swingin ' it.
We must take the offensive and beat Sinn Fein at its own tactics ... If a police barracks is burned or if the barracks already occupied is not suitable, then the best house in the locality is to be commandeered, the occupants thrown into the gutter.
' We may take this literally, understanding that by a purely mechanical process one which could be carried out by a machine.
We may take ( 1 ) to mean
" When Robert B. Anderson, Eisenhower's first Secretary of the Navy argued that the Navy must recognize the " customs and usages prevailing in certain geographic areas of our country which the Navy had no part in creating ", Eisenhower overruled him: " We have not taken and we shall not take a single backward step.
We are like travellers at an inn, or guests at a stranger's table ; whatever is offered we take with thankfulness, and sometimes, when the turn comes, we may refuse ; in the former case we are a worthy guest of the gods, and in the latter we appear as a sharer in their power.
In a fuller description, when angels came to Abraham to tell him of the future punishment to be imposed on Sodom and Gomorrah, his wife, Sarah, " laughed, and We gave her good tidings of Isaac, and after Isaac of ( a grandson ) Jacob " ( XI: 71-74 ); and it is further explained that this event will take place despite Abraham and Sarah's old age.
We cannot take the risks and risk our hard-won freedom.
We may be permitted here to take as proven the unity of the author of these three writings handed down under the name of John and his identity with the Evangelist.
Loach, Laverty and O ' Brien subsequently wrote that: " We feel duty bound to take advice from those living at the sharp end inside the occupied territories.
After the signing of the Louisiana Purchase agreement in 1803, Livingston made this famous statement, " We have lived long, but this is the noblest work of our whole lives ... From this day the United States take their place among the powers of the first rank.

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