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The waters surrounding Texel are littered with shipwrecks, and we expect that divers will always be on the lookout, these other wrecks, mostly Dutch merchant vessels from the 17th and 18th centuries, are invaluable treasure troves for learning more about history and heritage as well. We definitely expect that one or more new wrecks will be spotted over the coming year. – Alec Ewing	Found on CNN 1 year ago
You would walk down the subway steps every day, and all you could smell was urine; it was littered with muggers and mentally-ill people everywhere, subways were truly terrifying places. – Malcolm Reiman	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
To be honest, as a dad, it's tough trying to explain this to my kids. How do you explain dead whales washing up on beaches around the world, their stomachs jam-packed with plastic bags? as parents we're at a point when we take our kids to the beach and we have to search out a patch of sand that isn't littered with straws, Styrofoam or bottles. That's a problem, one that we have to do something about. – Justin Trudeau	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I think the company is lasting, but I think also that the 101 is littered with the old headquarters of companies that thought they would be around forever. That is a constant part of Silicon Valley, the death and the rebirth of these products and and these organizations. ... [ N ] obody can get too comfortable and too arrogant about how long anybody can be around, and how long you can be on top. – Alex Stamos	Found on CNN 5 years ago
For too long, plastic bags have clogged our storm drains, littered our greenspaces and tangled our trees. – City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The landscape of history is littered with companies who have been killed or bankrupt by digitized companies like Amazon. – Judge Emmet Sullivan	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
There was a real chance that if things hadn't gone the way they did in 2012, Mitt Romney would be the president right now and we would be facing even more terrifying setbacks for women's rights nationally, its no secret that women's rights matter to me, that's why my Twitter feed is littered w so much heinous violence. – Lena Dunham	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Brands have to take a longer-term view. Any sport is littered with controversy on and off the field, what fans care about most of all is the game itself rather than the business of the game... Being a sponsor of FIFA implies you are a sponsor of the game, not of the organisation. – Paul Smith	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We have cars littered all over the city. – Mayor Annise Parker	Found on CNN 8 years ago
There is only one dispensary in this village with only one health professional. Most areas surrounding the village are littered with garbage. – Juma Hamisi	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It was an eyesore looking at the scene which is littered with chopped flesh and battered bodies of victims, about 16 bodies were evacuated from the scene while over 30 persons were injured. Most casualties were children hawking sachets of water and peanuts. Some were begging for alms. – Hassan Umar	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The South is littered with monuments for the Civil War, but we haven’t looked at the great evil of slavery. Its aftermath morphed into terrorism of lynching. – Bryan Stevenson	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen. – Enoch Powell	added by anonymous 14 years ago

The waters surrounding Texel are littered with shipwrecks, and we expect that divers will always be on the lookout, these other wrecks, mostly Dutch merchant vessels from the 17th and 18th centuries, are invaluable treasure troves for learning more about history and heritage as well. We definitely expect that one or more new wrecks will be spotted over the coming year.

– Alec Ewing

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You would walk down the subway steps every day, and all you could smell was urine; it was littered with muggers and mentally-ill people everywhere, subways were truly terrifying places.

– Malcolm Reiman

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

To be honest, as a dad, it's tough trying to explain this to my kids. How do you explain dead whales washing up on beaches around the world, their stomachs jam-packed with plastic bags? as parents we're at a point when we take our kids to the beach and we have to search out a patch of sand that isn't littered with straws, Styrofoam or bottles. That's a problem, one that we have to do something about.

– Justin Trudeau

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I think the company is lasting, but I think also that the 101 is littered with the old headquarters of companies that thought they would be around forever. That is a constant part of Silicon Valley, the death and the rebirth of these products and and these organizations. ... [ N ] obody can get too comfortable and too arrogant about how long anybody can be around, and how long you can be on top.

– Alex Stamos

Found on CNN
5 years ago

For too long, plastic bags have clogged our storm drains, littered our greenspaces and tangled our trees.

– City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The landscape of history is littered with companies who have been killed or bankrupt by digitized companies like Amazon.

– Judge Emmet Sullivan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There was a real chance that if things hadn't gone the way they did in 2012, Mitt Romney would be the president right now and we would be facing even more terrifying setbacks for women's rights nationally, its no secret that women's rights matter to me, that's why my Twitter feed is littered w so much heinous violence.

– Lena Dunham

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Brands have to take a longer-term view. Any sport is littered with controversy on and off the field, what fans care about most of all is the game itself rather than the business of the game... Being a sponsor of FIFA implies you are a sponsor of the game, not of the organisation.

– Paul Smith

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We have cars littered all over the city.

– Mayor Annise Parker

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There is only one dispensary in this village with only one health professional. Most areas surrounding the village are littered with garbage.

– Juma Hamisi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It was an eyesore looking at the scene which is littered with chopped flesh and battered bodies of victims, about 16 bodies were evacuated from the scene while over 30 persons were injured. Most casualties were children hawking sachets of water and peanuts. Some were begging for alms.

– Hassan Umar

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The South is littered with monuments for the Civil War, but we haven’t looked at the great evil of slavery. Its aftermath morphed into terrorism of lynching.

– Bryan Stevenson

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.

– Enoch Powell

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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