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A subtle but effective way of encouraging an irregular voter is by slightly altering your vocabulary when you ask questions. For reasons that are unclear, people’s internal identity is only loosely connected to their actions—until they’re reminded of the discrepancy between the two. Use that to your advantage by emphasizing the identity of being a voter rather than the act of voting.

Oscar Auliq-Ice

added by Auliq-Ice
10 months ago

A subtle but effective way of encouraging an irregular voter is by slightly altering your vocabulary when you ask questions. For reasons that are unclear, people’s internal identity is only loosely connected to their actions—until they’re reminded of the discrepancy between the two. Use that to your advantage by emphasizing the identity of being a voter rather than the act of voting.

Oscar Auliq-Ice

added by Auliq-Ice
10 months ago

Legislation that impacts our most vulnerable youth requires careful consideration and deliberation. While not a perfect bill, we are grateful for Sen. Kennedy’s more nuanced and thoughtful approach to this terribly divisive issue, more and more experts, states and countries around the world are pausing these permanent and life-altering treatments for new patients until more and better research can help determine the long-term consequences.

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We wanted to catch this population of kids that are getting into this stuff unintentionally, we know they’re not seeking it out as a mind-altering substance. We knew subjectively they were at high risk because we’d see a lot of exposures in the ER, and they’re very likely to just put something in their mouth that looks tasty.

Antonia Nemanich

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There are very real challenges facing our young people, especially with today's societal pressures and modern culture. I believe very strongly that if the Good Lord made you a boy, you are a boy, and if he made you a girl, you are a girl. We should especially protect our children from these radical, life-altering drugs and surgeries when they are at such a vulnerable stage in life. Instead, let us all focus on helping them to properly develop into the adults God intended them to be.

Kay Ivey

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Our bond was already just incredible, but going through these life-altering events has definitely given us another reason to be closer.

Donald Crigler

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I’m used to it, I’ve played against her so many times, having someone taller than me ... she does a great job of altering my shot. At the last second she’s tipping it.

Jenna Staiti

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

History is like a bicycle wheel. In the center is a historical event, but there are tons of spokes on that wheel that get to the same historic event, altering perspectives and differing ways of doing it.

Lois Ellen Frank

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Parents should be consulted before their minor children are given life-altering medical treatment, it's deeply concerning that the Legislature and the governor continue to usurp parental authority.

Jonathan Keller

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Pleasure is threatening, it challenges those who are in power. As long as the society keeps women as second-class citizens, then men are in control. So denying [women] reproductive health, contraception, safe abortions, and certainly altering their body -- taking away the sexual pleasure aspects of one's anatomy -- keeps them suppressed and patriarchy in power.

Eli Coleman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

While (these wildfires) may not compare to the size and duration of what folks have in the western United States, we burn a significant portion of our lands every year because of these grass fires, and they’re altering our natural ecosystems and converting forests to grass.

Michael Walker

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

So what we have here are really fast-moving, very hot, very dangerous fires. while (these wildfires) may not compare to the size and duration of what folks have in the western United States, we burn a significant portion of our lands every year because of these grass fires, and they’re altering our natural ecosystems and converting forests to grass.

Michael Walker

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think it's tragic because the one time you look really good is before you're 25. Everyone is altering themselves so they all look older and older and older.

Britt Ekland

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

So they want to control language, instill fear and enforce rules with specific and implicit threats, and, of course, in some cases, life-altering punishment. … enter(s) the notion of what the anti-racist curriculum really is. It’s largely the brainchild of Ibram Kendi, and it embodies their supposed aim of promoting diversity, equity and inclusion in our schools.

Laura Ingraham

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This executive order is nothing but a license for gross federal overreach that will have potentially life-altering consequences for hard-working Georgians.

Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Harvard deciding that someone can't grow, especially after a life-altering event like the shooting, is deeply concerning. If any institution should understand growth, it's Harvard, which is looked to as the pinnacle of higher education despite its checkered past.

Kyle Kashuv

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The victim suffered massive trauma that was both life-threatening and life-altering, the attack was meant to end the victim's life.

Division Superintendent Heather Ramore

Found on CNN
5 years ago

China apparently has no intention of changing President Donald Trump unfair practices related to the acquisition of American intellectual property and technology, rather than altering those practices, President Donald Trump is now threatening United States companies, workers, and farmers who have done nothing wrong.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
5 years ago

China apparently has no intention of changing its unfair practices related to the acquisition of American intellectual property and technology. Rather than altering those practices, it is now threatening United States companies, workers, and farmers who have done nothing wrong.

Donald Trump

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I never tried to be malicious, it's the difference between altering fortune cookies to make a candidate look funny and altering State Department cables to make it look as if a former president were a murderer.

Dick Tuck

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

This time the intensity of the threat is much higher and we will definitely see companies altering their plans.

Shovon Islam

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

It’s always been a dream to show the original ‘Star Wars’ trilogy again — somehow, someway, seeing the original trilogy on the big screen for the first time is a real life-altering event and just a supreme amount of fun. When the films became available to book for screenings like these, we jumped at the chance to do something big.

Alamo Drafthouse

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

From what I read, somehow the charge is that they falsified government identities because that's true obviously, that's not good, but I only know what I read at this point, but I think it's pretty clear that we now know what goes on in Planned Parenthood clinics, here's what I know: Planned Parenthood has been trafficking in body parts. Planned Parenthood has been altering late-term abortion techniques to this specific purpose of harvesting body parts.

Carly Fiorina

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This shows it's not just something that happens 'over there' but it's something that happens in this country, these girls are as American as any other girls, yet they're facing something very, very life-altering.

Shelby Quast

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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