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As mankind descends into the depths of evil, echoing the times of Joshua, prayer emerges as the singular force capable of summoning God's intervention for our deliverance from the clutches of the malevolent. In the face of our own contemporary challenges, let our collective prayers rise as a beacon of hope, seeking divine mercy and guidance to navigate the shadows that threaten to engulf us. – Christen Kuikoua	added by ChristenKuikouafans 3 months ago
Because I write contemporary, magical realism and speculative for both children and adults, I spend a lot of time thinking about real settings for the contemporary books and the pieces that could be taken from those places to create fantasy spaces. But I also like to look for the magic in the real world… – Kacen Callender	added by ApricotAlf 1 year ago
Financial institutions are fully capable of learning their own history and understanding their own roles in past injustice, next, they must work to ensure that they counter contemporary wrongs and avoid the easier instinct to think of historical context as separate from current circumstances – and be held accountable in doing so by the federal government, by shareholders, and by customers. – Lily Roberts	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Pure beauty dominates in his work. He demystified the fashion world and created images that resonate with a natural beauty. His photographs were both historically durable with a contemporary edge. He had a reverence for tradition, but also a taste for new. – The Fahey/Klein Gallery	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Any contemporary warfare would be horrifying, but there are gradations to the horror. – Nigel Gould-Davies	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Just as its creation marked the beginning of openness in Russia, its closure might signal an end to this period, their criticism of historical and contemporary human rights abuses has for many years made them the target of a government that is ever diminishing the space for public debate. – Mary Lawlor	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Her approach suggests she understands the contemporary electorate in Arkansas and everywhere. – Janine Parry	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Every contemporary witness who passes away is a loss, but the farewell of David Dushman is particularly painful, david Dushman was one of the last who could tell about this event from David Dushman own experience. – Charlotte Knobloch	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Understanding the African American lens on American history demonstrates the resilience of the African American community, people have struggled for their place in this democracy. It shows how there are historic issues of contemporary importance. Our generation is able to pick up its part in making this really a more perfect union for American communities at large. – Deirdre Cross	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The Neanderthals hand anatomy and the archaeological record makes abundantly clear that The Neanderthals were very intelligent, sophisticated tool users and used many of the same tools that contemporary modern humans did. – Ameline Bardo	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Socialism is the doctrine of liberation for the working class. It promotes the rise of the fourth class and its incorporation in the political organism of our Fatherland, and is inextricably bound to breaking the present slavery and regaining German freedom. Socialism, therefore, is not merely a matter of the oppressed class, but a matter for everyone, for freeing the German people from slavery is the goal of contemporary policy. Socialism gains its true form only through a total fighting brotherhood with the forward striving energies of a newly awakened nationalism. Without nationalism it is nothing; a phantom, a mere theory, a castle in the sky, a book. With it it is everything, the future, freedom, the fatherland. – Joseph Goebbels	added by Normando 3 years ago
I think Don Henley is a brilliant contemporary rock writer. He would have been a fabulous poet if he weren't a musician. He was a literary major, and not only that - he's gifted with a brilliant voice. To me, Don could sing the New York City Yellow Pages and I'd buy it. I just love the sound of his voice. – Don Felder	added by RobertHaigh 3 years ago
Across media platforms, “Typhoid Mary” is still casually applied to contemporary menaces of public health, ignoring the ethically dubious practice of blaming healthy carriers and Mary Mallon’s persecution as a poor immigrant at the turn of the 20th century. – Katherine Foss	added by anonymous 3 years ago
We met more or less in secret, and he educated me on the subject of code, modern codes, contemporary coding systems -- at least contemporary in' 88. – Edward Scheidt	Found on CNN 3 years ago
That reality may short out their capacity to appropriately weigh that desire against the risk of contagion. In addition, Contemporary Families're used to associating contagious diseases with the demonstration of obvious symptoms or distress. So the absence of those may also cause people to ignore the very real dangers of potential infection. – Joshua Coleman	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Many people have a powerful need and desire to be with family during the holidays. This is both for the companionship and to provide support, that reality may short out their capacity to appropriately weigh that desire against the risk of contagion. In addition, Contemporary Families're used to associating contagious diseases with the demonstration of obvious symptoms or distress. So the absence of those may also cause people to ignore the very real dangers of potential infection. – Joshua Coleman	Found on CNN 4 years ago
A contemporary brain just dissolved, but the Heslington brain continued to reveal more and more proteins. – Axel Petzold	Found on CNN 4 years ago
There are many stories told in the Jim Crow Museum, but none are as horrible as these tales. The idea of using the skins of black people to make purses, shoes, belts, and other products is, of course, disgusting to contemporary Americans; however, there was a time—not so long ago—when the debasement of black Americans was so nearly complete that one could read about the skin of a black person being tanned in the same newspaper that reported the previous day’s baseball box scores. – David Pilgrim	added by anonymous 4 years ago
We have even based the stern painting on a real contemporary Dutch painting, Vermeersfamous Milkmaid,painted just one year before the ship was wrecked. – John McCarthy	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
We have a real disconnect between original purpose and the contemporary purpose. – Michael Slack	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
It felt very modern, it also speaks of these sort of contemporary issues and I just want to get that life and that humour and approach it maybe as if there were no rules as to how you make a costume drama. – Armando Iannucci	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I re-read 'David Copperfield' about 10 or so years ago and it just felt so cinematic and funny and experimental. It felt very modern, it also speaks of these sort of contemporary issues as well and I just want to get that life and that humor and approach it maybe as if there were no rules as to how you make a costume drama. – Armando Iannucci	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It's a very powerful love story, and a very life-affirming story by a bunch of pretty contemporary, damaged, messy people. – Ben Mendelsohn	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The contemporary Trump world means we don't have the luxury to be uncritical about who gets our communal love and support. – Tanya Hernandez	Found on CNN 4 years ago

As mankind descends into the depths of evil, echoing the times of Joshua, prayer emerges as the singular force capable of summoning God's intervention for our deliverance from the clutches of the malevolent. In the face of our own contemporary challenges, let our collective prayers rise as a beacon of hope, seeking divine mercy and guidance to navigate the shadows that threaten to engulf us.

– Christen Kuikoua

added by ChristenKuikouafans
3 months ago

Because I write contemporary, magical realism and speculative for both children and adults, I spend a lot of time thinking about real settings for the contemporary books and the pieces that could be taken from those places to create fantasy spaces. But I also like to look for the magic in the real world…

– Kacen Callender

added by ApricotAlf
1 year ago

Financial institutions are fully capable of learning their own history and understanding their own roles in past injustice, next, they must work to ensure that they counter contemporary wrongs and avoid the easier instinct to think of historical context as separate from current circumstances – and be held accountable in doing so by the federal government, by shareholders, and by customers.

– Lily Roberts

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Pure beauty dominates in his work. He demystified the fashion world and created images that resonate with a natural beauty. His photographs were both historically durable with a contemporary edge. He had a reverence for tradition, but also a taste for new.

– The Fahey/Klein Gallery

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Any contemporary warfare would be horrifying, but there are gradations to the horror.

– Nigel Gould-Davies

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Just as its creation marked the beginning of openness in Russia, its closure might signal an end to this period, their criticism of historical and contemporary human rights abuses has for many years made them the target of a government that is ever diminishing the space for public debate.

– Mary Lawlor

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Her approach suggests she understands the contemporary electorate in Arkansas and everywhere.

– Janine Parry

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Every contemporary witness who passes away is a loss, but the farewell of David Dushman is particularly painful, david Dushman was one of the last who could tell about this event from David Dushman own experience.

– Charlotte Knobloch

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Understanding the African American lens on American history demonstrates the resilience of the African American community, people have struggled for their place in this democracy. It shows how there are historic issues of contemporary importance. Our generation is able to pick up its part in making this really a more perfect union for American communities at large.

– Deirdre Cross

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The Neanderthals hand anatomy and the archaeological record makes abundantly clear that The Neanderthals were very intelligent, sophisticated tool users and used many of the same tools that contemporary modern humans did.

– Ameline Bardo

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Socialism is the doctrine of liberation for the working class. It promotes the rise of the fourth class and its incorporation in the political organism of our Fatherland, and is inextricably bound to breaking the present slavery and regaining German freedom. Socialism, therefore, is not merely a matter of the oppressed class, but a matter for everyone, for freeing the German people from slavery is the goal of contemporary policy. Socialism gains its true form only through a total fighting brotherhood with the forward striving energies of a newly awakened nationalism. Without nationalism it is nothing; a phantom, a mere theory, a castle in the sky, a book. With it it is everything, the future, freedom, the fatherland.

– Joseph Goebbels

added by Normando
3 years ago

I think Don Henley is a brilliant contemporary rock writer. He would have been a fabulous poet if he weren't a musician. He was a literary major, and not only that - he's gifted with a brilliant voice. To me, Don could sing the New York City Yellow Pages and I'd buy it. I just love the sound of his voice.

– Don Felder

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

Across media platforms, “Typhoid Mary” is still casually applied to contemporary menaces of public health, ignoring the ethically dubious practice of blaming healthy carriers and Mary Mallon’s persecution as a poor immigrant at the turn of the 20th century.

– Katherine Foss

added by anonymous
3 years ago

We met more or less in secret, and he educated me on the subject of code, modern codes, contemporary coding systems -- at least contemporary in' 88.

– Edward Scheidt

Found on CNN
3 years ago

That reality may short out their capacity to appropriately weigh that desire against the risk of contagion. In addition, Contemporary Families're used to associating contagious diseases with the demonstration of obvious symptoms or distress. So the absence of those may also cause people to ignore the very real dangers of potential infection.

– Joshua Coleman

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Many people have a powerful need and desire to be with family during the holidays. This is both for the companionship and to provide support, that reality may short out their capacity to appropriately weigh that desire against the risk of contagion. In addition, Contemporary Families're used to associating contagious diseases with the demonstration of obvious symptoms or distress. So the absence of those may also cause people to ignore the very real dangers of potential infection.

– Joshua Coleman

Found on CNN
4 years ago

A contemporary brain just dissolved, but the Heslington brain continued to reveal more and more proteins.

– Axel Petzold

Found on CNN
4 years ago

There are many stories told in the Jim Crow Museum, but none are as horrible as these tales. The idea of using the skins of black people to make purses, shoes, belts, and other products is, of course, disgusting to contemporary Americans; however, there was a time—not so long ago—when the debasement of black Americans was so nearly complete that one could read about the skin of a black person being tanned in the same newspaper that reported the previous day’s baseball box scores.

– David Pilgrim

added by anonymous
4 years ago

We have even based the stern painting on a real contemporary Dutch painting, Vermeersfamous Milkmaid,painted just one year before the ship was wrecked.

– John McCarthy

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We have a real disconnect between original purpose and the contemporary purpose.

– Michael Slack

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

It felt very modern, it also speaks of these sort of contemporary issues and I just want to get that life and that humour and approach it maybe as if there were no rules as to how you make a costume drama.

– Armando Iannucci

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I re-read 'David Copperfield' about 10 or so years ago and it just felt so cinematic and funny and experimental. It felt very modern, it also speaks of these sort of contemporary issues as well and I just want to get that life and that humor and approach it maybe as if there were no rules as to how you make a costume drama.

– Armando Iannucci

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It's a very powerful love story, and a very life-affirming story by a bunch of pretty contemporary, damaged, messy people.

– Ben Mendelsohn

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The contemporary Trump world means we don't have the luxury to be uncritical about who gets our communal love and support.

– Tanya Hernandez

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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