`` We had to do something ''.

We would like to do that too ''.

`` We the people of the Confederate States, each state acting in its sovereign and independent character, in order to form a permanent federal government, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity -- invoking the favor and the guidance of Almighty God -- do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Confederate States of America ''.

We are worried about what people may do with them -- that some crazy fool may `` push the button ''.

We can also argue that the three brothers Karamazov and Smerdyakov were the external representatives of an internal conflict within one man, Dostoevsky, a conflict having to do with father-murder and the wish to possess the father's woman.

We are learning how to do these things in some of the vast organized structures of modern society ; ;

We find, in the first place, that the students overwhelmingly approve of higher education, positively evaluate the job their own institution is doing, do not accept most of the criticisms levelled against higher education in the public prints, and, on the whole, approve of the way their university deals with value-problems and value inculcation.

We do not defeat the good ones with this cruelty, but we add to their burden, while expecting them to bestow saintliness upon us in return for ostentatious church attendance and a few bucks a week, American cash.

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 do not favor one field over another: we think that all inquiry, all scholarly and artistic creation, is good -- provided only that it contributes to a sense and understanding of the true ends of life, as all first-rate scholarship and artistic creation does.

`` We, the Subscribers, do agree, that as soon as a convenient Number of Persons have subscribed to this, or a similar Writing, We will present a petition to the Hon'ble General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, praying for an Act incorporating into a Body politic the subscribers to such Writing with Liberty to build such a Bridge, and a Right to demand a Toll equal to that received at Malden Bridge, and on like Terms, and if such an Act shall be obtained, then we severally agree each with the others, that we will hold in the said Bridge the several shares set against our respective Names, the whole into two hundred shares being divided, and that we will pay such sums of Money at such Times and in such Manners, as by the said proposed Corporation, shall be directed and required ''.

( We do, however, recommend those patented covers to prevent both people and junk -- flora and fauna generally -- from accidentally wintering in the pool.

) We do, however, provide a limited number of extra suits, mainly for children, and we stock extra towels and a few inexpensive bathing conveniences.

`` We do not have people in our organization termed ' consultants ' or ' fellows ', who are specialists in one particular technical subject.

`` We also do a number of things to build up the prestige of the engineer as a ' professional ' and also to give public recognition to individual technical competence.

Says Clarence Thompson: `` We dealers must earn our mark-up by performing a service for the builder cheaper than he could do it himself ''.

We can do this through the characteristic values and vectors of T in certain special cases, i.e., when the minimal polynomial for T factors over the scalar field F into a product of distinct monic polynomials of degree 1.

We should do what we can to discourage this conclusion, both by offering assistance for their domestic needs and by reacting firmly to irresponsible actions on the world scene.

We do not arrive at spatial images by means of the sense of touch by itself.

We do not deny originality to the Agamemnon because Aeschylus found the tales of the house of Atreus among the folk lore of the Greeks.

We do know that Morse left the house before nine o'clock.

`` We must persuade them to enjoy a way of life which, if not identical, is congenial with ours '', he said but adding that if they do not develop the kind of society they themselves want it will lack ritiuality and loyalty.

We cannot consider ourselves educated if we do not read ; ;

We are left helpless to cope with it because we do not dare speak of it as anything real for fear that to do so would imply a commitment to that which has already been discredited and proved false.

" The moral of the story " appears again and throughout Mother Night from this point on, and Vonnegut periodically elaborates upon it after saying, " We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

We none of us know ; and we should be thoroughly on our guard against all those who pretend that they do.

" We can't be happy, but we can be good ; let us therefore pretend that, so long as we are good, it doesn't matter being unhappy ".

We were like a group of guys in the neighborhood who said let ’ s pretend we ’ re pros .”

We pulled and swore and yanked and wept, scraping our hands until they bled profusely.

We, in our country, think of war as an external threat which, if it occurs, will not be primarily of our own doing.

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 use terms from our personal experience with individuals such as `` trust '', `` cheat '', and `` get tough ''.

We were forbidden to swing on the gates, lest they sag on their hinges in a poor-white-trash way, but we could stand on them, when they were latched, rest our chins on the top, and stare and stare, committing to memory, quite unintentionally, all the details that lay before our eyes.

A Yale historian, writing a few years ago in The Yale Review, said: `` We in New England have long since segregated our children ''.

We hear equally fervent concern over the belief that we have not enough generalists who can see the over-all picture and combine our national skills and knowledge for useful purposes.

We must believe we have the ability to affect our own destinies: otherwise why try anything??

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 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.

We and our friends are, of course, concerned with self-defense.

We did our job, Mr. Stavropoulos and Mr. De Seynes and myself, taking evidence from a number of people ''.

We went out of the office and down the hall to a window where documents and more officials awaited us, the rest of the office personnel hot upon our heels.

We saw it frequently afterward, but our suggestion for the very first encounter is near sunset.

We met some charming Athenians, and among them our chauffeur Panyotis ranked high.

We can be virtuous only if we control our lower natures, the passions in this case, and strengthen our rational side ; ;

We saw Giuseppe Berto at a party once in a while, tall, lean, nervous and handsome, and, in our opinion, the best novelist of them all except Pavese, and Pavese is dead.