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Border communities already feel over-surveilled, over-militarized, and yet they trot out this new technology and boast about it at a time when families are worried about how to get food on their tables and inflation, and it completely disregards the border communities as a community. It's like they fail to acknowledge that we're human beings on both sides. – Vicki Gaubeca	Found on CNN 2 years ago
(c)(p) I COULD NEVER BOAST THE ABUNDANCE OF WEALTH BECAUSE I HELP THOSE IN THE POVERTY FROM WHICH I GREW WITH THE LITTLE RESOURCES WHICH I WORKED FOR. I DO NOT NEED THE SPOTLIGHT TO SHOW WHAT I SHARE. THOSE WHO ASKED BOB MARLEY ABOUT MONEY GOT ONE STRAIGHT ANSWER-WHAT IS MONEY TO YOU?. HE TURNED THE QUESTION BACK AT THEM. I TAUGHT HIM THAT IN TRENCH TOWN.WE NEVER STOLE FROM ANYONE! POVERTY DOES NOT TURN YOU INTO A THIEF! GREED AND ENVY DOES THAT! I AM RAS CARDO. – RAS CARDO REGGAE**	added by jahmantafari1 2 years ago
(C)(P)-BOOK- AMERICA TRYING TO FIND ITSELF AFTER 245 YEARS AND COUNTING.I KNEW MORE ABOUT AMERICA BEFORE I CAME TO AMERICA LEGALLY. THE BEST WAY TO SEE AMERICA IS TO BE-OUTSIDE AMERICA! SOME FOLKS WILL NOT SEE THE RATIONALE FOR THIS TRUTH. SO MANY BORN AND RAISED AMERICANS DO NOT KNOW ABOUT AMERICA.THIS IS VERY TRUE. AMERICA CAN BOAST ABOUT MANY THINGS TO OUTSIDERS, BUT NOT AS TO ITS IMAGE AND HOW OTHERS FEEL ABOUT IT. SINCE 2016, IT HAS GOTTEN WORSE. I AM TRYING TO RETURN IT TO TRUTH AND REALITY. I AM HERE TO HELP! – RAS CARDO REGGAE**	added by jahmantafari1 2 years ago
RT-PCR tests boast an accuracy of 95%. This means that there still can be 2-5% of those cases that are detected false negative or false positive cases. – Kim Jeong-ki	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We have a lot of problems, there is nothing to boast about, and we must not let our guard down, because in general, as you and your specialists say, we have not passed the peak of the epidemic yet. – Vladimir Putin	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Unfortunately, when all is said and done, the answer is abundantly clear, there is nothing that could have. It is as though the President's boast that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue in broad daylight and get away with Fifth Avenue in broad daylight was manifest. That takes its toll. – Denny Heck	Found on CNN 4 years ago
It used to be the boast of free men that, so long as they kept within the bounds of the known law, there was no need to ask anybody's permission or to obey anybody's orders. It is doubtful whether any of us can make this claim today. – Friedrich August von Hayek	added by Normando 4 years ago
Both the President's timing of certain actions and hints that the President has made expressly have raised fears that he's offering the Chinese a compromise of our national security enforcement in exchange for the kinds of concessions that he can boast about on the campaign trail, if we put legitimate enforcement of our national security laws on the table in trade negotiation, we are inviting our adversaries to demand we drop national security enforcement at future trade negotiation tables. – Matt Gold	Found on CNN 4 years ago
You boast what you already have yet feel insecure and jealous when you find the same in others. That's how fragile you're, Grow Up! – RAMANA PEMMARAJU	added by anonymous 6 years ago
You boast of what you already have yet feel insecure and jealous when you find in same in others. That's how fragile you're, Grow Up! – RAMANA PEMMARAJU	added by anonymous 6 years ago
The boast was overloaded because it was also carrying heavy music equipment, we rescued eight people and shall start a search for the nine. – Angeline Were	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
We've got to build a better politics, when I hear voices in either party boast of their refusal to compromise as an accomplishment in and of itself, I'm not impressed. – Barack Obama	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Bosses often think that due to family commitments, women cannot stay late in the office, attend events where they can network or take on extra projects. As a result, women are often passed over for promotions, women themselves are also not visible enough, even when they are ambitious. As a culture and as a gender, we have always been told from a young age to be humble and not boast about our achievements. – Sarika Bhattacharyya	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The economy has taken a hit under this administration, and while they boast about the infrastructure development, the people are saying we can't eat concrete. – Alberto Vellos	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I wanted to boast to my friends afterward. I misled them. – Owen Labrie	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
You can say to it ‘Find me men’s shorts’ and I can give you turn-by-turn walking directions to every instance of men’s shirts, whether they are inside Bloomingdales, Abercrombie and Fitch, or Nordstrom, it’s amazingly accurate. We boast one meter of accuracy, which is effectively the difference between leading you to men’s button-down shirts and the casual t-shirts that are right next to them. Three feet of accuracy means I can lead you directly to the soap versus the shampoo that’s right next to it. – Aaron Liao	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I'm so grateful to have been a friend of this wonderful man. We worked together for many years and my boast is that we laughed all day every day. – Dennis Waterman	Found on CNN 8 years ago
They are criminal thugs who have been carrying out brutal terrorist attacks, putting people's lives in danger, they boast of the brutality and violence they have been meting out to people, they boast of having sexual slaves. – Foreign Minister Julie Bishop	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Oh I know it well, love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. – Hillary Clinton	Found on CNN 8 years ago
When a man respects and is proud of his partner, just as Clooney mentioned in his speech, he cannot help but vocalize this happiness, he doesn't do this to boast or brag; he sincerely just wants to respect her as his equal and let others know what's important to him now.The fact that Amal is young, smart, and a humanitarian really speaks to him on levels that go far deeper than what he has had with other women in the past. – Lori Bizzoco	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much? – Samuel Beckett	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato?the only good belonging to him is underground. – Sir Thos Overbury	added by anonymous 12 years ago
It is intolerable that a silly fool, with nothing but empty birth to boast of, should in his insolence array himself in the merits of others, and vaunt an honour which does not belong to him. – Boileau	added by anonymous 12 years ago
There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. – Bertrand Russell	added by anonymous 13 years ago

Border communities already feel over-surveilled, over-militarized, and yet they trot out this new technology and boast about it at a time when families are worried about how to get food on their tables and inflation, and it completely disregards the border communities as a community. It's like they fail to acknowledge that we're human beings on both sides.

– Vicki Gaubeca

Found on CNN
2 years ago

**(c)(p) I COULD NEVER BOAST THE ABUNDANCE OF WEALTH BECAUSE I HELP THOSE IN THE POVERTY FROM WHICH I GREW WITH THE LITTLE RESOURCES WHICH I WORKED FOR. I DO NOT NEED THE SPOTLIGHT TO SHOW WHAT I SHARE. THOSE WHO ASKED BOB MARLEY ABOUT MONEY GOT ONE STRAIGHT ANSWER-WHAT IS MONEY TO YOU?. HE TURNED THE QUESTION BACK AT THEM. I TAUGHT HIM THAT IN TRENCH TOWN.WE NEVER STOLE FROM ANYONE! POVERTY DOES NOT TURN YOU INTO A THIEF! GREED AND ENVY DOES THAT! I AM RAS CARDO.

– RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by jahmantafari1
2 years ago

**(C)(P)-BOOK- AMERICA TRYING TO FIND ITSELF AFTER 245 YEARS AND COUNTING.I KNEW MORE ABOUT AMERICA BEFORE I CAME TO AMERICA LEGALLY. THE BEST WAY TO SEE AMERICA IS TO BE-OUTSIDE AMERICA! SOME FOLKS WILL NOT SEE THE RATIONALE FOR THIS TRUTH. SO MANY BORN AND RAISED AMERICANS DO NOT KNOW ABOUT AMERICA.THIS IS VERY TRUE. AMERICA CAN BOAST ABOUT MANY THINGS TO OUTSIDERS, BUT NOT AS TO ITS IMAGE AND HOW OTHERS FEEL ABOUT IT. SINCE 2016, IT HAS GOTTEN WORSE. I AM TRYING TO RETURN IT TO TRUTH AND REALITY. I AM HERE TO HELP!

– RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by jahmantafari1
2 years ago

RT-PCR tests boast an accuracy of 95%. This means that there still can be 2-5% of those cases that are detected false negative or false positive cases.

– Kim Jeong-ki

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We have a lot of problems, there is nothing to boast about, and we must not let our guard down, because in general, as you and your specialists say, we have not passed the peak of the epidemic yet.

– Vladimir Putin

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Unfortunately, when all is said and done, the answer is abundantly clear, there is nothing that could have. It is as though the President's boast that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue in broad daylight and get away with Fifth Avenue in broad daylight was manifest. That takes its toll.

– Denny Heck

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It used to be the boast of free men that, so long as they kept within the bounds of the known law, there was no need to ask anybody's permission or to obey anybody's orders. It is doubtful whether any of us can make this claim today.

– Friedrich August von Hayek

added by Normando
4 years ago

Both the President's timing of certain actions and hints that the President has made expressly have raised fears that he's offering the Chinese a compromise of our national security enforcement in exchange for the kinds of concessions that he can boast about on the campaign trail, if we put legitimate enforcement of our national security laws on the table in trade negotiation, we are inviting our adversaries to demand we drop national security enforcement at future trade negotiation tables.

– Matt Gold

Found on CNN
4 years ago

You boast what you already have yet feel insecure and jealous when you find the same in others. That's how fragile you're, Grow Up!

– RAMANA PEMMARAJU

added by anonymous
6 years ago

You boast of what you already have yet feel insecure and jealous when you find in same in others. That's how fragile you're, Grow Up!

– RAMANA PEMMARAJU

added by anonymous
6 years ago

The boast was overloaded because it was also carrying heavy music equipment, we rescued eight people and shall start a search for the nine.

– Angeline Were

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We've got to build a better politics, when I hear voices in either party boast of their refusal to compromise as an accomplishment in and of itself, I'm not impressed.

– Barack Obama

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Bosses often think that due to family commitments, women cannot stay late in the office, attend events where they can network or take on extra projects. As a result, women are often passed over for promotions, women themselves are also not visible enough, even when they are ambitious. As a culture and as a gender, we have always been told from a young age to be humble and not boast about our achievements.

– Sarika Bhattacharyya

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The economy has taken a hit under this administration, and while they boast about the infrastructure development, the people are saying we can't eat concrete.

– Alberto Vellos

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I wanted to boast to my friends afterward. I misled them.

– Owen Labrie

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You can say to it ‘Find me men’s shorts’ and I can give you turn-by-turn walking directions to every instance of men’s shirts, whether they are inside Bloomingdales, Abercrombie and Fitch, or Nordstrom, it’s amazingly accurate. We boast one meter of accuracy, which is effectively the difference between leading you to men’s button-down shirts and the casual t-shirts that are right next to them. Three feet of accuracy means I can lead you directly to the soap versus the shampoo that’s right next to it.

– Aaron Liao

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I'm so grateful to have been a friend of this wonderful man. We worked together for many years and my boast is that we laughed all day every day.

– Dennis Waterman

Found on CNN
8 years ago

They are criminal thugs who have been carrying out brutal terrorist attacks, putting people's lives in danger, they boast of the brutality and violence they have been meting out to people, they boast of having sexual slaves.

– Foreign Minister Julie Bishop

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Oh I know it well, love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

– Hillary Clinton

Found on CNN
8 years ago

When a man respects and is proud of his partner, just as Clooney mentioned in his speech, he cannot help but vocalize this happiness, he doesn't do this to boast or brag; he sincerely just wants to respect her as his equal and let others know what's important to him now.The fact that Amal is young, smart, and a humanitarian really speaks to him on levels that go far deeper than what he has had with other women in the past.

– Lori Bizzoco

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?

– Samuel Beckett

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato?the only good belonging to him is underground.

– Sir Thos Overbury

added by anonymous
12 years ago

It is intolerable that a silly fool, with nothing but empty birth to boast of, should in his insolence array himself in the merits of others, and vaunt an honour which does not belong to him.

– Boileau

added by anonymous
12 years ago

There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

– Bertrand Russell

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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