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We and neither
We are not given to lamentations, neither personally nor in these Reports.
The Athanasian Creed, received in the Western Church as having the same status as the Nicene and Chalcedonian, says: " We worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity ; neither confounding the Persons nor dividing the Substance.
Around 4 July, Poisson declared Galois ' work " incomprehensible ", declaring that " argument is neither sufficiently clear nor sufficiently developed to allow us to judge its rigor "; however, the rejection report ends on an encouraging note: " We would then suggest that the author should publish the whole of his work in order to form a definitive opinion.
We cannot go back, but neither do we want to go back.
The Court responded, " We reject this claim because neither the Supreme Court, nor this circuit, has ever held that evolutionism or Secular Humanism are ' religions ' for Establishment Clause purposes.
We claim the rational, eschew the irrational ,( contrary to reason ) and question the non-rational ( that which is neither provable nor disprovable by reason alone, i. e. life after death ).
But neither of these taught anyone ( such things ) without saying: " We are only for trial ; so do not blaspheme.
Their debut single "( We Don't Need This ) Fascist Groove Thang " attracted some attention and, due to its overtly left-wing political lyrics, was banned by BBC Radio 1 DJ Mike Read ( who is a staunch supporter of the Conservative Party ), and neither this nor any other of the four singles taken from the band's debut album Penthouse and Pavement managed to reach the Top 40 in the UK Singles Chart.
Prior to its tabling in Dáil Éireann and presentation to the Irish electorate in a plebiscite, an obfuscatory comment on the final amended draft by Secretary of State Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, the future Holy Father Pius XII responded " We do not approve, neither do we disapprove ; We shall maintain silence.
We had neither the time nor resources to organize 20 million demonstrators and the thousands of schools and local communities that participated.
The non-aligned world: " We face neither East nor West: We face forward ", a Zambian political advertisement quotes Kwame Nkrumah.
We have given to us a conception A uniting among its constituent marks two that prove to be contradictory, say M and N ; and we can neither deny the unity nor reject one of the contradictory members.
We ask, secondly, for freedom of education, because it is a natural right, and thus to say, the first freedom of the family ; because there exists without it neither religious freedom nor freedom of expression .”
It is said that George Washington often uttered the words: " We must consult Brother Jonathan " when faced with a difficult question ; however, that origin is doubtful, as neither man made reference to the story during their lifetimes and the first appearance of the story has been traced to the mid-19th century, long after their deaths.
We whose names are here underwritten: having been called to give our counsels to Mr. Orlando Gibbons ; in the time of his late and sudden sickness, which we found in the beginning lethargical, or a profound sleep ; out of which, we could never recover him, neither by inward nor outward medicines, & then instantly he fell in most strong, & sharp convulsions ; which did wring his mouth up to his ears, & his eyes were distorted, as though they would have been thrust out of his head & then suddenly he lost both speech, sight and hearing, & so grew apoplectical & lost the whole motion of every part of his body, & so died.
We can only infer that the totality of all numbers is infinite, that the number of squares is infinite, and that the number of their roots is infinite ; neither is the number of squares less than the totality of all numbers, nor the latter greater than the former ; and finally the attributes " equal ," greater ," and " less ," are not applicable to infinite, but only to finite, quantities.
We recognize that there are no sins in the metaphysical sense ; but, in the same sense, neither are there any virtues ; we recognize that this entire realm of moral ideas is in a continual state of fluctuation, that there are higher and deeper concepts of good and evil, moral and immoral.
We who live abroad are accustomed to believing that the Arabs are all wild desert people who, like donkeys, neither see nor understand what is happening around them.
When Dioscorus argued for the adoption of the formula " One incarnate nature of God the Word " and several bishops equated this with the views of Eutyches, Dioscuros tried to clarify his point that " We do not speak of confusion, neither of division, nor of change.
The next single by the Blues Magoos, " There's A Chance We Can Make It ," was only a minor hit, with its b-side " Pipe Dream " actually charting higher ( though neither side hit the top 40 ).
We neither favored nor opposed that act .... Well, of course, the method of Osama bin Laden, and the fashion of bin Laden, we do not endorse them.
We believe that this should be left to the individual, and that neither the practice nor the non-practice of it should be any bar to fellowship, either in the church, the local association, the Presbytery, or the General Association.

We and conceive
We can conceive of no alternatives.
We cannot conceive of Oedipus without a Sphinx, nor of Hamlet without a Ghost.
We cannot possibly conceive an ' is ' except as belonging to some thing that is, or exists.
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 them
We couldn't budge them.
We are worried about what people may do with them -- that some crazy fool may `` push the button ''.
We showed them to each other and said `` Would you have guessed ''??
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.
We shall return to these statements and deal with them more fully as the evidence for them accumulates.
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 scour literature for them ; ;
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 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 fashioned beards, put them on, and reported to the Hetman at the city desk.
We met some charming Athenians, and among them our chauffeur Panyotis ranked high.
We may further grant to those of her ( Poetry's ) defenders who are lovers of poetry and yet not poets, the permission to speak in prose on her behalf: let them show not only that she is pleasant but also useful to States and to human life, and we will listen in a kindly spirit ; ;
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.
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 have no right to criticize them, as they realize they would be sitting ducks in a nuclear war.
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 want no part in such discussions, because we think them largely futile ; ;
We gently usher them to an island of tables and chairs strategically placed on the far side of the pool where they can amuse each other until we get ready to merge sides.
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.
Another woman, addressing Christmas cards, said to her husband: `` We sent them one last year but they didn't send us one, so they probably won't send us one this year because they'll think we won't send them one because they didn't last year, don't you think, or shall we ''??
`` We go to the park with this nice lady '', one of them said.
We concluded that we may refer workers to the fieldwork ( but not the packing shed work ) provided we give them written notice of the packing shed dispute.
`` 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.

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