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We were painfully honest — we didn't shoplift, we didn't vandalize, we didn't spray-paint.
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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 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 were possessed by visions of a new civilization to come, very pure and elevated '', he has said, `` in fact some ideal form of socialism such as we had dreamed of since the war of 1914-1918 ''.
We were given a job and we carried it out, and later, his case was taken up by the Disciplinary Committee.
`` We were requested by the Secretary General, as I understand it, to discuss with you such matters as appear to us to be relevant, and we are not of course either a formal group or a committee in the sense of being guided by any rules or regulations of the Secretariat.
We were struck by the notable absence of banana skins and beer cans, but just so that we wouldn't go overboard on Greek refinement, perfection was side-stepped by a couple of braying portable radios.
We were almost the same age, she was fifteen, I was twelve, and where I felt there was a life to look forward to Lilly felt she had had as much of it as was necessary.
`` We have just returned from Roswell, N.M., where we were defeated, 34 to 9 '', the young man noted.
We were less than a quarter of a mile from the road, and we could trace its shape from the ribbon of powder smoke and dust that hung over it.
`` We were on our vacation in Canada '', Howard explained, in a muffled voice that must have been used to booming, `` and the news didn't catch up with us till we were nearly home.
We would have the means to seek out and destroy the enemy's force -- whether it were fixed or mobile.
We were camping a few weeks ago on Cape Hatteras Campground in that land of pirates, seagulls and bluefish on North Carolina's famed Outer Banks.
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We today are not entitled to excoriate honest men who believed Parker to be downright pernicious and who barred their pulpits against his demand to poison the minds of their congregations.
* Cook as Macmillan recounting a summit meeting with U. S. President John F. Kennedy: " We talked of many things, including Great Britain's position in the world as some kind of honest broker.
We are the addicts, the oil producers are the pushers-we ’ ve never had an honest conversation with the Saudis .” Friedman expresses a strong stance on America's need to become more energy independent and to lead in technologies concerning environmental compatibility.
In contrast to a previous WCW storyline with his nephew, Chavo fully agreed with his uncle as their slogan stated " We lie, we cheat, and we steal, but at least we're honest about it.
" Guard later told journalist Richard Hadlock in Down Beat magazine: " We are not students of folk music ; the basic thing for us is honest and worthwhile songs that people can pick up and become involved in.
We can ' trust ' the signal not because the cat is inclined to be honest, but because it just can't fake that sound.
We found them uniformly honest in their traffic ; but they did not evince the same warmth of friendship for us as the Spokans, and expressed no desire for the establishment of a trading post among them.
We are all honest people, let's embrace one another, and let this be over with, 1834 print by Honoré Daumier
We have forgotten the wisdom which says that since we cannot foresee where any road will lead in the end, we should stick to the straight and honest one.
In January 2008 he made some controversial comments regarding the FA Cup, saying " We are not going to win the FA Cup and I do not care less about it, to be honest.
We agree rather with certain local Negro leadership which has called for honest and open negotiation in our area.
" We believe there are good reasons for a more honest dialogue about the positive and negative effects of marijuana use.
" We dwell in safety and pursue our honest callings: free blacks in New York City, 1783-1810 ," The Journal of American History, 75 ( 2 ): 445-470.
We achieve this by supporting our members to empower consumers, encourage honest business and target rogue traders.
< p > We who voted for the Endangered Species Act with the honest intentions of protecting such glories of nature as the wolf, the eagle, and other treasures have found that extremists with wholly different motives are using this noble act for meanly obstructive ends.
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