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today, suffering from drawn out hangover, the world ran dry. Bukowski died and one third of the world's winemakers will go broke. – Scott C. Holstad	added by scottholstad 10 months ago
Whenever investors hear of a ‘data breach,’ they tend to assume the worst … it seems much of the doom and gloom was priced in two weeks ago when news of the cyberattack first broke. – Matt Simpson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
While it would appear that his car broke down and he had walked for help, he never called for help from the cell phone that was found on his body, sandy Smith has never accepted the conclusion of the cursory investigation that followed his death, that concluded that his death was a result of a hit-and-run. – Ronnie Richter	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Ukrainian women did not wait for doors to be open for them to serve in all capacities. They broke the doors down and have proven themselves as combat capable force multipliers. (re: response of Ukrainian women to the 2022 invasion of their country by the Russian Federation) – Lt. Col. Melanie Lake	added by Greying_Geezer 1 year ago
I thought it was a joke, i couldn’t believe the person that called me. I kept telling them they have to be kidding. When I realized he wasn’t, I literally broke down crying. – Jack Carter	Found on CNN 1 year ago
He (Perry) lost this fight in regular session, and even after they broke the rules he and his allies lost again in front of the entire country last night, they tried every trick in the book, blocking testimony from the very women whose lives would be affected, voting in the middle of the night, shutting down the debate — they couldn’t get this done because Texans would not let them. – Cecile Richards	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We’re right in the middle of rice country. The way the rice business goes is how the economy goes, three years of drought here has become the straw that broke the camel’s back. – Richard Richter Greg Ponciano	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I know that Paul Murdaugh’s actively making money, and you just ca n’t possibly be broke, not the way Paul Murdaugh was making money, beyond that, I mean my clients have known Paul Murdaugh and Paul Murdaugh family forever, and so their perspective is that there’s generational wealth as well. – Mark Tinsley	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We need to change the way public schools view educators as a never-ending supply of energetic martyrs and treat them more like the professionals they are and that we expect for our children. you set your child up for greatness and they have so many great opportunities and to hear that was no longer being afforded to her, it broke my heart and brought me to tears. – Kimberly Walkes	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think that weighed really heavy on her soul. I think she felt really guilty. I think that really broke her. Over Thanksgiving, she had priests coming, trying to have an exorcism of the house and having prayer services, he’s a strong person, athletic. This has been tough. It’s going to be about three or four more months before he’s really back to normal. – Alexandra Pelosi	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I completely broke. I’m not equipped or trained to deal with a long-term citywide problem like this. I know it’s very hard to watch. I can only ask others to maybe try to better understand my breaking point by looking at sudden reactions they might have had in their own life and how they may have strongly overreacted and now feel so humbled and sorry. the city needs to take action and do something to give these people support and help that they need, not move them a few blocks away. – Trena Hamidi	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Hell, they almost broke me. I worked in the back with people whose names were Gomez and Garcia and who could barely understand me. I unloaded sofas, washing machines, a cast iron stove for God’s sake. Nearly broke me. I looked forward to a cigarette break with a madman’s glee, and I was joined by the others, the cigarette the communal language. When I finally finished my community service, they gave me my paperwork to take back to court and on it they wrote great worker, thanks and I felt more satisfaction out of that than nearly all of my poemsies I’ve ever had published. – Scott C. Holstad	added by scottholstad 1 year ago
Tesla clearly is starting to see demand cracks in China and in the US at a time that EV competition is increasing across the board, the price cuts that Tesla enacted was the straw that broke the camel’s back on the stock. – Dan Ives	Found on CNN 1 year ago
He just instantly broke down crying, he was stranded as well and he was walking down the street and he saw Casey Maccarone Monique Alexander in the snow. So, he picked Casey Maccarone Monique Alexander up and he placed Casey Maccarone Monique Alexander under the awning … so that Casey Maccarone Monique Alexander would n’t get snowed on anymore. – Monique Alexander	Found on CNN 1 year ago
He just instantly broke down crying, he was stranded as well and he was walking down the street and he saw her in the snow. So he picked her up and he placed her under the awning … so that she wouldn’t get snowed on anymore. – Casey Maccarone	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Two people died immediately when they hit the ground and around four to five (others) broke their legs. – Peerapan Srisakorn Peerapan Srisakorn	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Now more than ever, Congress must put pressure on the administration to put in place a more permanent strategy to fight the humanitarian and national security crisis at the southern border. This crisis is no joke, president Biden broke our immigration system. Now it is up to him to fix it. – Mike Garcia	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Look at the border. Do you know we’ve had 3.8 million illegal immigrants cross that border, 800,000 more got-aways, 4.5 million people broke the law and came here illegally? and Biden and Warnock helped them do it. Now, I am the daughter of Indian immigrants. They came here legally, they put in the time, they put in the price, they are offended by what’s happening on that border. Legal immigrants are more patriotic than the leftists these days. They knew they worked to come into America, and they love America. They want the laws followed in America, so the only person we need to make sure we deport is Warnock. – Nikki Haley	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Yesterday morning, a violent man broke into our family home, demanded to confront me and brutally attacked my husband Paul.Our children, our grandchildren and I are heartbroken and traumatized by the life-threatening attack on our Pop. We are grateful for the quick response of law enforcement and emergency services, and for the life-saving medical care he is receiving. – Nancy Pelosi	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Democrats broke education with social justice, low standards and politicized teachers unions, democrats voted in lockstep with for shutdowns and masks. Then the return to school focused solely on CRT [critical race theory], making an education recovery impossible. – Fox News	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I felt the elders were being manipulated and had no understanding of the risks the project posed. It broke my heart to leave, but I couldn't support MAC approving the removal of our history. – Raelene Cooper	Found on CNN 1 year ago
[ We're ] a little bit in the camp of if it ain't broke, don't fix it. – Tom Curtis	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It is not until you arrived, Thomas Webster, that all hell broke loose, i still remained shocked every time I see it. – Amit Mehta	Found on CNN 1 year ago
She bravely broke down barriers within the world of aviation and paved the path for many to follow. – American Airlines	Found on CNN 1 year ago

today, suffering from drawn out hangover, the world ran dry. Bukowski died and one third of the world's winemakers will go broke.

– Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
10 months ago

Whenever investors hear of a ‘data breach,’ they tend to assume the worst … it seems much of the doom and gloom was priced in two weeks ago when news of the cyberattack first broke.

– Matt Simpson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While it would appear that his car broke down and he had walked for help, he never called for help from the cell phone that was found on his body, sandy Smith has never accepted the conclusion of the cursory investigation that followed his death, that concluded that his death was a result of a hit-and-run.

– Ronnie Richter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Ukrainian women did not wait for doors to be open for them to serve in all capacities. They broke the doors down and have proven themselves as combat capable force multipliers. (re: response of Ukrainian women to the 2022 invasion of their country by the Russian Federation)

– Lt. Col. Melanie Lake

added by Greying_Geezer
1 year ago

I thought it was a joke, i couldn’t believe the person that called me. I kept telling them they have to be kidding. When I realized he wasn’t, I literally broke down crying.

– Jack Carter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He (Perry) lost this fight in regular session, and even after they broke the rules he and his allies lost again in front of the entire country last night, they tried every trick in the book, blocking testimony from the very women whose lives would be affected, voting in the middle of the night, shutting down the debate — they couldn’t get this done because Texans would not let them.

– Cecile Richards

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re right in the middle of rice country. The way the rice business goes is how the economy goes, three years of drought here has become the straw that broke the camel’s back.

– Richard Richter Greg Ponciano

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I know that Paul Murdaugh’s actively making money, and you just ca n’t possibly be broke, not the way Paul Murdaugh was making money, beyond that, I mean my clients have known Paul Murdaugh and Paul Murdaugh family forever, and so their perspective is that there’s generational wealth as well.

– Mark Tinsley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We need to change the way public schools view educators as a never-ending supply of energetic martyrs and treat them more like the professionals they are and that we expect for our children. you set your child up for greatness and they have so many great opportunities and to hear that was no longer being afforded to her, it broke my heart and brought me to tears.

– Kimberly Walkes

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think that weighed really heavy on her soul. I think she felt really guilty. I think that really broke her. Over Thanksgiving, she had priests coming, trying to have an exorcism of the house and having prayer services, he’s a strong person, athletic. This has been tough. It’s going to be about three or four more months before he’s really back to normal.

– Alexandra Pelosi

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I completely broke. I’m not equipped or trained to deal with a long-term citywide problem like this. I know it’s very hard to watch. I can only ask others to maybe try to better understand my breaking point by looking at sudden reactions they might have had in their own life and how they may have strongly overreacted and now feel so humbled and sorry. the city needs to take action and do something to give these people support and help that they need, not move them a few blocks away.

– Trena Hamidi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Hell, they almost broke me. I worked in the back with people whose names were Gomez and Garcia and who could barely understand me. I unloaded sofas, washing machines, a cast iron stove for God’s sake. Nearly broke me. I looked forward to a cigarette break with a madman’s glee, and I was joined by the others, the cigarette the communal language. When I finally finished my community service, they gave me my paperwork to take back to court and on it they wrote great worker, thanks and I felt more satisfaction out of that than nearly all of my poemsies I’ve ever had published.

– Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
1 year ago

Tesla clearly is starting to see demand cracks in China and in the US at a time that EV competition is increasing across the board, the price cuts that Tesla enacted was the straw that broke the camel’s back on the stock.

– Dan Ives

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He just instantly broke down crying, he was stranded as well and he was walking down the street and he saw Casey Maccarone Monique Alexander in the snow. So, he picked Casey Maccarone Monique Alexander up and he placed Casey Maccarone Monique Alexander under the awning … so that Casey Maccarone Monique Alexander would n’t get snowed on anymore.

– Monique Alexander

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He just instantly broke down crying, he was stranded as well and he was walking down the street and he saw her in the snow. So he picked her up and he placed her under the awning … so that she wouldn’t get snowed on anymore.

– Casey Maccarone

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Two people died immediately when they hit the ground and around four to five (others) broke their legs.

– Peerapan Srisakorn Peerapan Srisakorn

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Now more than ever, Congress must put pressure on the administration to put in place a more permanent strategy to fight the humanitarian and national security crisis at the southern border. This crisis is no joke, president Biden broke our immigration system. Now it is up to him to fix it.

– Mike Garcia

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Look at the border. Do you know we’ve had 3.8 million illegal immigrants cross that border, 800,000 more got-aways, 4.5 million people broke the law and came here illegally? and Biden and Warnock helped them do it. Now, I am the daughter of Indian immigrants. They came here legally, they put in the time, they put in the price, they are offended by what’s happening on that border. Legal immigrants are more patriotic than the leftists these days. They knew they worked to come into America, and they love America. They want the laws followed in America, so the only person we need to make sure we deport is Warnock.

– Nikki Haley

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Yesterday morning, a violent man broke into our family home, demanded to confront me and brutally attacked my husband Paul.Our children, our grandchildren and I are heartbroken and traumatized by the life-threatening attack on our Pop. We are grateful for the quick response of law enforcement and emergency services, and for the life-saving medical care he is receiving.

– Nancy Pelosi

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Democrats broke education with social justice, low standards and politicized teachers unions, democrats voted in lockstep with for shutdowns and masks. Then the return to school focused solely on CRT [critical race theory], making an education recovery impossible.

– Fox News

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I felt the elders were being manipulated and had no understanding of the risks the project posed. It broke my heart to leave, but I couldn't support MAC approving the removal of our history.

– Raelene Cooper

Found on CNN
1 year ago

[ We're ] a little bit in the camp of if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

– Tom Curtis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is not until you arrived, Thomas Webster, that all hell broke loose, i still remained shocked every time I see it.

– Amit Mehta

Found on CNN
1 year ago

She bravely broke down barriers within the world of aviation and paved the path for many to follow.

– American Airlines

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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