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We need not, to be sure, expect to find such ideas in every piece of literature.
We may thus trace the notion of individual autonomy from its manifestation in religious practice and theological reflection through practical politics and political theory into literature and the arts.
The word has become more prevalent, and now features in children's literature, such as the Walter the Farting Dog series of children's books, Robert Munsch's Good Families Don't and The Gas We Pass by Shinta Cho.
We just know that it is done, annually, weekly, daily, for some people almost hourly ; and we have an enormous ethnographic literature to demonstrate it ".
We also respect the sacred literature of other religions.
" The group's manifesto, which Yeats wrote, declared, " We hope to find in Ireland an uncorrupted & imaginative audience trained to listen by its passion for oratory ... & that freedom to experiment which is not found in the theatres of England, & without which no new movement in art or literature can succeed.
God's final message, " We apologise for the inconvenience ", has also found its way into the scientific literature.
We tear down the old order every day, from business to science, literature, art, architecture, and cinema to politics and the law.
We have a personal literature now — Proust, Wolfe, Faulkner, Joyce.
Urged by the New England Society for the Suppression of Vice, his letter said: " We are of the opinion that this book is such a book as brings it within the provisions of the Public Statutes respecting obscene literature and suggest the propriety of withdrawing the same from circulation and suppressing the editions thereof.
" The new magazine set forth its principles and policies to its readers: " We wish to have some fun in this paper ... We shall try to domesticate as much as possible of the casual cheerfulness that is drifting about in an unfriendly world ... We shall have something to say about religion, about politics, fashion, society, literature, the stage, the stock exchange, and the police station, and we will speak out what is in our mind as fairly, as truthfully, and as decently as we know how.
* Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Mary Treadgold, We Couldn't Leave Dinah
We carried box after box of the literature.
The motto I proposed for the Review was Tenui musam meditamur avena .--' We cultivate literature on a little oatmeal.
We do have some secular poetry ; in fact a great deal of medieval literature was written in verse, including the Old English epic Beowulf.
We accomplish this by providing Bibles, literature, radio broadcasts and other forms of aid.
We should not ban a powerful piece of literature just because of a diagram.
We know that debates about the freedom of the will continued to flare up ( for instance, in the famous exchanges between Erasmus and Martin Luther ), that Spanish thinkers were increasingly obsessed with the notion of nobility, that duelling was a practice that generated a large literature in the sixteenth century ( was it permissible or not?
He expressed the opinion that: " We are musicians and our model is sound not literature, sound not mathematics, sound not theatre, visual arts, quantum physics, geology, astrology or acupuncture " ( Fineberg 2006, p. 105 ).
We note here that, in the literature, sometimes the fourth property is weakened so that Φ is only required to be not trace-increasing.
We briefly describe some of the ideas here, and present pointers to the literature.
We will examine these works briefly, grouping them into narrative, didactic, hagiographic, lyric, satiric and dramatic literature.

We and for
We ran out of money and we haven't eaten for two days ''.
We spoke of the need for advertising, and I agreed that the deep dive would be most useful for publicity.
We followed the asphalt road for a few miles and then swung off onto a smaller road which was nothing more than two tire marks on the earth.
`` 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 desperately in the need of such invention, for man is still very much at the mercy of man.
We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being acutely aware of the confusion.
We enjoyed a paradoxical freedom when we were still too young for school.
We shall return to these statements and deal with them more fully as the evidence for them accumulates.
We consider a rural community as an assemblage of inhabited dwellings whose configuration is determined by the location and size of the arable land sites necessary for family subsistence.
We assume for this illustration that the size of the land plots is so great that the distance between dwellings is greater than the voice can carry and that most of the communication is between nearest neighbors only, as shown in Figure 2.
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 of the liberal-led world got all set for peace and rehabilitation.
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 also struck by the fact that this story of a boy's love for his mother does not offend, while the incestuous love of the man, Paul Morel, sometimes repels.
We had been walking quite briskly, for despite your being so small and me so tall, your stride in those days could easily match mine.
`` We are ready for your next mysterious assignment '', said Mr. Baer to the Hetman.
We must avoid the notion, suggested to some people by examples such as those just mentioned, that ideas are `` units '' in some way comparable to coins or counters that can be passed intact from one group of people to another or even, for that matter, from one individual to another.
`` We are menaced for the first time in the history of the Republic by the open and unblushing effort of a multi-millionaire to purchase the Presidential nomination.
We saw it frequently afterward, but our suggestion for the very first encounter is near sunset.
We lived for a while in a movie melodrama with a German cook and her son who turned out to be Nazis.
There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.
We often say of a person that he `` looks young for his age '' or `` old for his age ''.

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