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we and want
We want him back there or we want him dead ''.
`` By God '', Waddell said, `` we don't want to upset the boy at this time of all times.
If we want respect from ourselves or others, we will have to earn it.
All we want from Dr. Huxley's statement is the feeling that this is an open world, in the view of the best scientific opinion, with practically no directional commitments as to what may happen next, and no important confinements with respect to what may be possible.
At his press conference Mr. Kennedy said, `` All we want in Laos is peace not war a truly neutral government not a cold war pawn ''.
We want the past forgiven, but at the same time we must be willing for God to direct the future.
We are slowly being regimented to having everything packaged, whether we want it or not.
If we want to preserve our sovereignty, this is the way to do it ; ;
Thus, we have no part, and want none, in current discussions of the relative importance of science, the social studies, the humanities, the creative arts.
We want no part in such discussions, because we think them largely futile ; ;
We want to know when the Potlatches telephone exactly how many they are planning to bring, so that we won't end up with a splashing mob that looks like Coney Island in August.
We know now that a 15-degree differential in temperature is the maximum usually desirable, and accurate controls assure the comfort we want.
There comes a time in the lives of most of us when we want to be alone.
I believe we all want more schools where white and Negro together can and do attend.
I believe we all want no child denied admission to a school on account of his color.
How to achieve this objective is a problem, but we are not divided on what we want.
Or should we argue that if we want adjustment of children to children of different races and that that is impossible in an all-something-or-the-other school, we must at least provide him some opportunity to adjust to people of another race within the school -- namely, to a teacher of another race.
we want to know what is perennially new about Utopia.
As American artists, it was natural that we would want to meet as many Soviet artists as possible.

we and know
I said, `` Do we know each other, Miss ''??
`` I know what we can do '', I said.
You actually hate me -- and we both know it -- because I killed that filthy snake.
`` The Rocking Horse Winner '' is a fantasy with extraordinary power to disturb the reader -- but we do not know why.
If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.
But what you could not know, of course, was how smoothly the Victorian Fitzgerald was to lead into an American Fitzgerald of my own vintage under whose banner we adolescents were to come, if not of age, then into a bright, taut semblance of it.
If he's going to the St. Louis convention as a delegate we ought to know it.
Another Indiana observer later commented, `` Perhaps we shall never know how much was spent ( by Hearst ), but if as much money was expended elsewhere as in Indiana a liberal fortune was squandered ''.
But, here again, comparative benchmarks are lacking, and we do not know, in any case, what measure of profoundity and intensity to expect from healthy, young, secure and relatively inexperienced persons ; ;
Goethe asks in Wilhelm Meister whether we know the land where the lemon trees flower, and the light of the Mediterranean glows through Torquato Tasso and the Roman Elegies.
It has already been reported in your newspapers that the East Greenwich School Committee is considering additions to at least one elementary school and to the high school to insure future accommodations for a school population that we know will increase.
When we become firm enough to stand for those ideals which we know to be right, when we become hard enough to refuse to aid nations which do not permit self-determination, when we become strong enough to resist any more drifts towards socialism in our own Nation, when we recognize that our enemy is Communism not war, and when we realize that concessions to Communists do not insure peace or freedom, then, and only then will we no longer be `` soft ''.
The Council we now know will concern itself directly only with the internal affairs of the Church.
Gloria ( surname: Ziraldo ), circa 30, who was born in Italy and once did `` chorus work '' in Toronto, has been around longer than most of the others, wistfully remembers the old days when `` we used to get the seamen from the ships, you know, with big turtleneck sweaters and handkerchiefs and all.
As we know, the Soviet peasant today still very largely thrives on being able to sell the produce grown on his private plot ; ;
And, as we know, the Virgin Lands are not producing as much as Khrushchev had hoped.
The trouble with all these doctrinal quarrels is that we hear only one side of the story: what, in the secret councils of the Kremlin, Molotov had really proposed, we just don't know, and he has had no chance to reply.

we and why
We must believe we have the ability to affect our own destinies: otherwise why try anything??
It is a characteristic of thoughts that in re-thinking them we come, ipso facto, to understand why they were thought ''.
And it becomes clear why in general we cannot take the initiative against the Left.
This is why I say we just can't go ahead and disarm the Germans and pull down our own defenses.
Armed Forces Day is the annual report on this investment, a public presentation designed to give our own people, and the people of other lands who stand with us for peace with freedom and justice, the best possible opportunity to see and understand what we have and why we have it.
If any official operation abroad begins to go wrong, we shall look to the ambassador to find out why and to get suggestions for remedial action.
That we had the wit and wisdom to adopt Mr. Lowell's concept and make it the base for our processes of selection is one reason why our selections have been, it may be said truly, pretty uniformly good.
If of the founders of glottochronology Swadesh has escaped our steady plodding, and Lees has repudiated his own share in the founding, that is no reason why we should swerve.
There is no apparent reason why we should feel bound by Swadesh's rules and procedure since his predilections and aims have grown so vast.
If we did not mean to say this, why should we be so relieved on finding that the suffering had not occurred??
If we were asked why we thought so, we should say that these things involve great evil and are wrong, and that to take delight in what is evil or wrong is plainly unfitting.
When a man recognizes a certain experience as the exact pattern of a previous dream, we have an instance of deja vue, except for the fact that he knows just why the experience seems familiar.
And if it was not an individual who was in the dock, why was the Trial, as we shall observe later, all but scuttled in the attempt to prove Eichmann a `` fiend ''??
We flew in rickety planes so overloaded that we wondered why they didn't crash.
It is idle to ask why we are no longer disturbed if somebody, professing the deepest piety, decides anew that it is of no importance whether or not Christ transformed the water into wine at eleven A.M. on the third of August, A.D. 32.
We have no answer as to why we are not alarmed.
After all this destruction of old literature, it should be obvious why we have so little information about the early history and development of the Lo Shu, which was already semisecret anyhow.
That is why it is so very important that ethical analysis keep clear the problem of decision as to `` permitted '' effects, and not draw back in fright from any conceivable contingency or suffer paralysis of action before possibilities or probabilities unrelated, or not directly morally related, to what we can and may and must do as long as human history endures.
And why do we in the West know so few of his ballets??

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