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When we work together, as the closest of friends should, we only make each other stronger. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The cheetahs immediately went south, to the part of Babanango that’s closest to the reserve where they grew up. So maybe they were trying to go home. But it’s also the grassy plateaus where it’s easiest for them to hunt with their speed. – Xolani Mhlongo	Found on CNN 1 year ago
In my 22 years affiliated with Fox, this is the closest thing I’ve seen to an existential crisis - at least journalistically, what’s most worrisome is that there doesn’t seem to be much conflict. – Bill Sammon	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It could have been 100 years since (the species) was even in this area — and it’s been years since it’s been spotted anywhere near it. The next closest place that they’ve been found was 1,200 miles away, so very unlikely it would have traveled that far. – Michael Skvarla	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I believe that women of any age… can do whatever they set their minds to, the people I am closest to in this organization are women. – Don Lemon	Found on CNN 1 year ago
You never know how Both Maggie and Cindy is going to change your life, or how that’s going to turn out, i still think it’s crazy that one of my closest friends was someone I met at the airport. – Cindy Jarrin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Scout quickly ruled out 2023 BU as an impactor, but despite the very few observations, it was nonetheless able to predict that the asteroid would make an extraordinarily close approach with Earth, in fact, this is one of the closest approaches by a known near-Earth object ever recorded. – Davide Farnocchia	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The Federal Government has decided to make Leopard 2 battle tanks available to the Ukrainian armed forces, this is the result of intensive consultations that took place with Germany’s closest European and international partners. This decision follows our well-known line of supporting Ukraine to the Ukraine to the best of our ability. – Olaf Scholz	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think about my closest friends. If I go to another country and treat other people’s closest friends, while my friends struggle to see a doctor in the UK – that is really heartbreaking. – Eilidh Garrett	Found on CNN 1 year ago
His people that he feels sort of the closest connection with now are the folks in Plains, at his church and other places, but, you know, his partner No. 1, 2 and 3 is my grandma, right? He has outlived friends and so many of his advisers and the people that he accomplished so much with in the past, but they’ve never been lonely because they’ve always had each other. – Jason Carter	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Technology brings us closer to the furthest, …and distances us from the closest. – Chief Executive Michele Norsa	added by luiscastellanos 1 year ago
Built in a UK shipyard, HMS Anson demonstrates the very best of British industry, sustaining our world-leading sub-surface capabilities and underlining the UK's readiness to contribute them to shared security, especially with our closest allies Australia and the United States under the AUKUS initiative. – Ben Wallace	Found on CNN 1 year ago
At certain times of the year, the moon is at its closest point to Earth and these are called supermoons, it's just a natural point of the moon's orbit. At each extreme, the moon is either a little bigger or a little bit smaller( at its furthest point), but it is not a huge difference. – Mike Hankey	Found on CNN 1 year ago
For most of my life, it has been my lifeline, a place where I found peace and healing time and time again, it's where I felt closest to my mother and sought solace after she died, and where I knew I had found a soulmate in my wife. And it’s why so much of my work is based there. – Prince Harry	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
While this will not change anything about my day-to-day life, I do hope it shows people what those closest to the case have been saying from the beginning, cooper Harris ' was a loving and proud father to Cooper. At the same time Cooper Harris ' was being a terrible husband. These two things can and did exist at the same time. – Leanna Taylor	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Probably some of the closest people in your world have suffered in silence from this and have never wanted to admit it, and when people don’t talk about it — it makes it feel like you’re so alone. – Julie Lamppa	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Because they are isolated, they retain whatever genetics was in their ancestor and great ancestors, the Patagonian sheepdog comes the closest to anything anyone has ever seen and that's what makes them so fascinating. – Elaine Ostrander	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Nearly every day I can stand on a big peak beside a couple of my closest friends, with thousands of feet great snow below us, as I spin in a circle identifying all the amazing places I've ridden my snowboard before, all the crazy places I know I'll soon explore. – Devin Overton	Found on CNN 2 years ago
From Beijing's perspective there is no higher priority than stability ahead of Party Congress -- as we all know Party Congress's by no means an election, but this is the closest you might come to seeing a' campaign season' in China, we know that most opposition to Xi has been eliminated... but there is still the expectation of delivering on particular needs for the majority of people. – Natasha Kassam	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It is the safest, the closest to Europe, the closest to NATO, the closest to security. – Timur Averin	Found on CNN 2 years ago
If you expand your circle a little, more people are willing to help than we think and that unburdens those closest to us, it also makes you feel like you have more support out there and maybe gets you linked up with people who are better able to help. Individuals who are a step removed sometimes have more time or more experience than close friends or family. – Vanessa Bohns	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Right now, there is still a lot of' viewing margin' around the disc, enabling stunning detail to be captured by FSI out to about 3.5 million kilometres, equivalent to five times the radius of the Sun, at closest approach on 26 March, which will see the spacecraft pass within about 0.3 times the Sun-Earth distance, the Sun will fill a much larger portion of the telescope's field of view. – The ESA	Found on CNN 2 years ago
When I afterwards saw how she was received by her closest entourage, with such, what appeared to be a tremendous coldness, it was chilling to see this, rather than giving her comfort, rather than to try to help her, you could feel this chilling atmosphere, this distance. – Thomas Bach	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I love this so much that it's such a passion but I also know that what I've seen from some of my closest friends, whether it's coaches or even some of our players, I'm gon na be married this summer, I want to have a family and I think being able to find that balance but also be able to give the time necessary, i have always had a dream about being able to be a father and I can't predict the future, you know ? I jokingly say that. – Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images	Found on FOX News 2 years ago

When we work together, as the closest of friends should, we only make each other stronger.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The cheetahs immediately went south, to the part of Babanango that’s closest to the reserve where they grew up. So maybe they were trying to go home. But it’s also the grassy plateaus where it’s easiest for them to hunt with their speed.

– Xolani Mhlongo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In my 22 years affiliated with Fox, this is the closest thing I’ve seen to an existential crisis - at least journalistically, what’s most worrisome is that there doesn’t seem to be much conflict.

– Bill Sammon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It could have been 100 years since (the species) was even in this area — and it’s been years since it’s been spotted anywhere near it. The next closest place that they’ve been found was 1,200 miles away, so very unlikely it would have traveled that far.

– Michael Skvarla

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I believe that women of any age… can do whatever they set their minds to, the people I am closest to in this organization are women.

– Don Lemon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You never know how Both Maggie and Cindy is going to change your life, or how that’s going to turn out, i still think it’s crazy that one of my closest friends was someone I met at the airport.

– Cindy Jarrin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Scout quickly ruled out 2023 BU as an impactor, but despite the very few observations, it was nonetheless able to predict that the asteroid would make an extraordinarily close approach with Earth, in fact, this is one of the closest approaches by a known near-Earth object ever recorded.

– Davide Farnocchia

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Federal Government has decided to make Leopard 2 battle tanks available to the Ukrainian armed forces, this is the result of intensive consultations that took place with Germany’s closest European and international partners. This decision follows our well-known line of supporting Ukraine to the Ukraine to the best of our ability.

– Olaf Scholz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think about my closest friends. If I go to another country and treat other people’s closest friends, while my friends struggle to see a doctor in the UK – that is really heartbreaking.

– Eilidh Garrett

Found on CNN
1 year ago

His people that he feels sort of the closest connection with now are the folks in Plains, at his church and other places, but, you know, his partner No. 1, 2 and 3 is my grandma, right? He has outlived friends and so many of his advisers and the people that he accomplished so much with in the past, but they’ve never been lonely because they’ve always had each other.

– Jason Carter

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Technology brings us closer to the furthest, …and distances us from the closest.

– Chief Executive Michele Norsa

added by luiscastellanos
1 year ago

Built in a UK shipyard, HMS Anson demonstrates the very best of British industry, sustaining our world-leading sub-surface capabilities and underlining the UK's readiness to contribute them to shared security, especially with our closest allies Australia and the United States under the AUKUS initiative.

– Ben Wallace

Found on CNN
1 year ago

At certain times of the year, the moon is at its closest point to Earth and these are called supermoons, it's just a natural point of the moon's orbit. At each extreme, the moon is either a little bigger or a little bit smaller( at its furthest point), but it is not a huge difference.

– Mike Hankey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For most of my life, it has been my lifeline, a place where I found peace and healing time and time again, it's where I felt closest to my mother and sought solace after she died, and where I knew I had found a soulmate in my wife. And it’s why so much of my work is based there.

– Prince Harry

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

While this will not change anything about my day-to-day life, I do hope it shows people what those closest to the case have been saying from the beginning, cooper Harris ' was a loving and proud father to Cooper. At the same time Cooper Harris ' was being a terrible husband. These two things can and did exist at the same time.

– Leanna Taylor

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Probably some of the closest people in your world have suffered in silence from this and have never wanted to admit it, and when people don’t talk about it — it makes it feel like you’re so alone.

– Julie Lamppa

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Because they are isolated, they retain whatever genetics was in their ancestor and great ancestors, the Patagonian sheepdog comes the closest to anything anyone has ever seen and that's what makes them so fascinating.

– Elaine Ostrander

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Nearly every day I can stand on a big peak beside a couple of my closest friends, with thousands of feet great snow below us, as I spin in a circle identifying all the amazing places I've ridden my snowboard before, all the crazy places I know I'll soon explore.

– Devin Overton

Found on CNN
2 years ago

From Beijing's perspective there is no higher priority than stability ahead of Party Congress -- as we all know Party Congress's by no means an election, but this is the closest you might come to seeing a' campaign season' in China, we know that most opposition to Xi has been eliminated... but there is still the expectation of delivering on particular needs for the majority of people.

– Natasha Kassam

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It is the safest, the closest to Europe, the closest to NATO, the closest to security.

– Timur Averin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If you expand your circle a little, more people are willing to help than we think and that unburdens those closest to us, it also makes you feel like you have more support out there and maybe gets you linked up with people who are better able to help. Individuals who are a step removed sometimes have more time or more experience than close friends or family.

– Vanessa Bohns

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Right now, there is still a lot of' viewing margin' around the disc, enabling stunning detail to be captured by FSI out to about 3.5 million kilometres, equivalent to five times the radius of the Sun, at closest approach on 26 March, which will see the spacecraft pass within about 0.3 times the Sun-Earth distance, the Sun will fill a much larger portion of the telescope's field of view.

– The ESA

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When I afterwards saw how she was received by her closest entourage, with such, what appeared to be a tremendous coldness, it was chilling to see this, rather than giving her comfort, rather than to try to help her, you could feel this chilling atmosphere, this distance.

– Thomas Bach

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I love this so much that it's such a passion but I also know that what I've seen from some of my closest friends, whether it's coaches or even some of our players, I'm gon na be married this summer, I want to have a family and I think being able to find that balance but also be able to give the time necessary, i have always had a dream about being able to be a father and I can't predict the future, you know ? I jokingly say that.

– Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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