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Poetry has been a source of entertainment for centuries, whether through spoken word performances, recitations, or written works. It can captivate audiences and provide a source of enjoyment. – Oscar Auliq-Ice	added by Auliq-Ice 6 months ago
Poetry has been a source of entertainment for centuries, whether through spoken word performances, recitations, or written works. – Oscar Auliq-Ice	added by Auliq-Ice 6 months ago
The rise in antisemitism, of course, fills all American Jews and others with deep fear, we need Gov. DeSantis to speak out loudly and clearly when antisemitic acts take place in Florida itself. Especially those that have been perpetrated by far-right, White-supremacist elements. It is not enough to nearly bemoan ‘woke politics.’ He must also bemoan the reactionary forces that have endangered Jewish life and lives for centuries. – Jeffrey Salkin	Found on CNN 12 months ago
‘ Xiongnu ’ was the name of a dynasty not a people, per se ; but that dynastic regime greatly impacted the peoples within its realms and left a powerful legacy in Eurasia, many subsequent groups appropriated the potent name of Xiongnu( or Hunnu) as they established their own regimes, leading to the perpetuation of so-called ‘ Hunnic ’ entities even as far as that of Attila and the Huns at the edge of Europe centuries after the demise of the Xiongnu in Inner Asia. – Genghis Khan	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Chocolate and candy are safe to enjoy, as they have been for centuries. Food safety is the number one priority for U.S. confectionery companies, and we do not use any ingredients in our products that do not comply with the FDA’s strictest safety standards, chocolate and candy companies will continue to innovate as new information becomes available and consumer preferences change. – Christopher Gindlesperger	Found on CNN 1 year 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
It took me 10 days to buy it off 10 different priests who each had a stake. I was immediately struck by the beauty of the property, even though when I bought it in the 1980s it was crumbling and dilapidated. The gardens, the centuries-old trees, the views are spellbinding. I needed a rural home and I lived there for 35 years. – Owner Maria Silvia Papais	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This will be a historic visit, after centuries of division, leaders of three different parts of (Christianity) are coming together in an unprecedented way. – Justin Welby	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They'll be asked to analyze and contextualize common practices and problems across the centuries. – Elizabeth Scala -LRB- @swiftieprof -RRB-	Found on CNN 1 year ago
For centuries, the worry was about the river flooding, but climate change has meant that Po River is now at risk of drying up, po River is not just Po River, Po River is part of the national psyche. The towns along Po River draw tourism and industry. It was almost a moat for central Italy that kept it safe from invaders. Now it is under threat and no one knows what to do to save it. – Tobias Jones	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We have a responsibility to help this state recover, to help the families who have been here for centuries. ... Governor, let me be clear : We will be here for you in response and recovery for as long as it takes. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 1 year ago
As fighters, they have a reputation that goes back centuries of being ferocious and instilling fear among invading armies that tried and failed to crush them. So, you end up with Chechen characters in novels by Tolstoy and Pushkin, some of the great literary giants of Russian literature, and this fear of the Chechens fighter is not for nothing. – Jonathan Wachtel	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I think woke comes from a larger phenomenon of white guilt. America, in the mid-'60s … [admitted] that it partook of evil and it partook of evil for four centuries— wasn’t just a quick minute, one of the consequences is that the moral authority of the American democracy was put at risk because of this history of evil that came to the forefront in the '60s. Since that time, white America understandably has been trying to reestablish its moral authority, its moral legitimacy. In order to do that, it has to find ways to demonstrate that it is not guilty any longer of those old evils. – Eli Steele	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
For many years in popular culture, people associated the Viksø helmets with the Vikings, but our research confirms that the helmets were deposited in the bog in about 900 B.C., almost 3,000 years ago and many centuries before the Vikings or Norse dominated the region. – Helle Vandkilde	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The people of The Arctic are similarly experiencing extreme events and conditions that they've never before witnessed or have to deal with, so on a very human scale, we are all finding ourselves in a world that is now fundamentally changed from the the environmental conditions of the last many decades and centuries. – Twila Moon	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Where are we then? The religionists are the enemies of liberty, and the friends of liberty attack religion; the high-minded and the noble advocate subjection, and the meanest and most servile minds preach independence; honest and enlightened citizens are opposed to all progress, whilst men without patriotism and without principles are the apostles of civilization and intelligence. Has such been the fate of the centuries which have preceded our own? and has man always inhabited a world like the present, where nothing is linked together, where virtue is without genius, and genius without honor; where the love of order is confounded with a taste for oppression, and the holy rites of freedom with a taste for law; where the light thrown by conscience on human actions is dim, and where nothing seems to be any longer forbidden or allowed, honorable or shameful, false or true? – Alexis de Tocqueville	added by Normando 2 years ago
New York's longstanding proper-cause requirement does not violate the Second Amendment, for centuries, lawmakers have protected the public by reasonably regulating such matters as who may possess arms, where they may be taken, and how they may be manufactured, transported, sold, stored, and carried. – Brian Fletcher	Found on CNN 2 years ago
For centuries, lawmakers have protected the public by reasonably regulating such matters as who may possess arms, where they may be taken, and how they may be manufactured, transported, sold, stored, and carried. – Brian Fletcher	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Over the centuries through storm and strife, in peace and in war, we have come so far. But we still have far to go. We will press forward with speed and urgency, for we have much to do in this winter of peril and possibility. – President Biden	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Overall, we're seeing that Greenland melts more often, in previous decades or centuries, it's extremely rare to get above freezing temperatures at the summit of Greenland. – Ted Scambos	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We are advocating for a school system that works for all children, not just Black or Brown children, but what we are going to do first and foremost is start with those kids who have been marginalized and neglected for centuries. – Bettina Love	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
One step, two steps, three steps; like winds of time experience joy of centuries, when movements become revelations of the dance of destinies – Shah Asad Rizvi	added by shahasadrizvi 2 years ago
When we went through thisprocess to stand up a force,one of the things we had to say over and over and over again to ourselves to be convinced was that we weren’t going to create a big bureaucratic quagmire that the other services have created for themselves over decades or centuries, in some cases. – Kevin Cramer	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
People are born and they die. Wise words live through centuries and eons. – Sadist Puppeteer	added by aniketgurjar69 2 years ago

Poetry has been a source of entertainment for centuries, whether through spoken word performances, recitations, or written works. It can captivate audiences and provide a source of enjoyment.

– Oscar Auliq-Ice

added by Auliq-Ice
6 months ago

Poetry has been a source of entertainment for centuries, whether through spoken word performances, recitations, or written works.

– Oscar Auliq-Ice

added by Auliq-Ice
6 months ago

The rise in antisemitism, of course, fills all American Jews and others with deep fear, we need Gov. DeSantis to speak out loudly and clearly when antisemitic acts take place in Florida itself. Especially those that have been perpetrated by far-right, White-supremacist elements. It is not enough to nearly bemoan ‘woke politics.’ He must also bemoan the reactionary forces that have endangered Jewish life and lives for centuries.

– Jeffrey Salkin

Found on CNN
12 months ago

‘ Xiongnu ’ was the name of a dynasty not a people, per se ; but that dynastic regime greatly impacted the peoples within its realms and left a powerful legacy in Eurasia, many subsequent groups appropriated the potent name of Xiongnu( or Hunnu) as they established their own regimes, leading to the perpetuation of so-called ‘ Hunnic ’ entities even as far as that of Attila and the Huns at the edge of Europe centuries after the demise of the Xiongnu in Inner Asia.

– Genghis Khan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Chocolate and candy are safe to enjoy, as they have been for centuries. Food safety is the number one priority for U.S. confectionery companies, and we do not use any ingredients in our products that do not comply with the FDA’s strictest safety standards, chocolate and candy companies will continue to innovate as new information becomes available and consumer preferences change.

– Christopher Gindlesperger

Found on CNN
1 year 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

It took me 10 days to buy it off 10 different priests who each had a stake. I was immediately struck by the beauty of the property, even though when I bought it in the 1980s it was crumbling and dilapidated. The gardens, the centuries-old trees, the views are spellbinding. I needed a rural home and I lived there for 35 years.

– Owner Maria Silvia Papais

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This will be a historic visit, after centuries of division, leaders of three different parts of (Christianity) are coming together in an unprecedented way.

– Justin Welby

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They'll be asked to analyze and contextualize common practices and problems across the centuries.

– Elizabeth Scala -LRB- @swiftieprof -RRB-

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For centuries, the worry was about the river flooding, but climate change has meant that Po River is now at risk of drying up, po River is not just Po River, Po River is part of the national psyche. The towns along Po River draw tourism and industry. It was almost a moat for central Italy that kept it safe from invaders. Now it is under threat and no one knows what to do to save it.

– Tobias Jones

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have a responsibility to help this state recover, to help the families who have been here for centuries. ... Governor, let me be clear : We will be here for you in response and recovery for as long as it takes.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As fighters, they have a reputation that goes back centuries of being ferocious and instilling fear among invading armies that tried and failed to crush them. So, you end up with Chechen characters in novels by Tolstoy and Pushkin, some of the great literary giants of Russian literature, and this fear of the Chechens fighter is not for nothing.

– Jonathan Wachtel

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think woke comes from a larger phenomenon of white guilt. America, in the mid-'60s … [admitted] that it partook of evil and it partook of evil for four centuries— wasn’t just a quick minute, one of the consequences is that the moral authority of the American democracy was put at risk because of this history of evil that came to the forefront in the '60s. Since that time, white America understandably has been trying to reestablish its moral authority, its moral legitimacy. In order to do that, it has to find ways to demonstrate that it is not guilty any longer of those old evils.

– Eli Steele

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

For many years in popular culture, people associated the Viksø helmets with the Vikings, but our research confirms that the helmets were deposited in the bog in about 900 B.C., almost 3,000 years ago and many centuries before the Vikings or Norse dominated the region.

– Helle Vandkilde

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The people of The Arctic are similarly experiencing extreme events and conditions that they've never before witnessed or have to deal with, so on a very human scale, we are all finding ourselves in a world that is now fundamentally changed from the the environmental conditions of the last many decades and centuries.

– Twila Moon

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Where are we then? The religionists are the enemies of liberty, and the friends of liberty attack religion; the high-minded and the noble advocate subjection, and the meanest and most servile minds preach independence; honest and enlightened citizens are opposed to all progress, whilst men without patriotism and without principles are the apostles of civilization and intelligence. Has such been the fate of the centuries which have preceded our own? and has man always inhabited a world like the present, where nothing is linked together, where virtue is without genius, and genius without honor; where the love of order is confounded with a taste for oppression, and the holy rites of freedom with a taste for law; where the light thrown by conscience on human actions is dim, and where nothing seems to be any longer forbidden or allowed, honorable or shameful, false or true?

– Alexis de Tocqueville

added by Normando
2 years ago

New York's longstanding proper-cause requirement does not violate the Second Amendment, for centuries, lawmakers have protected the public by reasonably regulating such matters as who may possess arms, where they may be taken, and how they may be manufactured, transported, sold, stored, and carried.

– Brian Fletcher

Found on CNN
2 years ago

For centuries, lawmakers have protected the public by reasonably regulating such matters as who may possess arms, where they may be taken, and how they may be manufactured, transported, sold, stored, and carried.

– Brian Fletcher

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Over the centuries through storm and strife, in peace and in war, we have come so far. But we still have far to go. We will press forward with speed and urgency, for we have much to do in this winter of peril and possibility.

– President Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Overall, we're seeing that Greenland melts more often, in previous decades or centuries, it's extremely rare to get above freezing temperatures at the summit of Greenland.

– Ted Scambos

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We are advocating for a school system that works for all children, not just Black or Brown children, but what we are going to do first and foremost is start with those kids who have been marginalized and neglected for centuries.

– Bettina Love

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

One step, two steps, three steps; like winds of time experience joy of centuries, when movements become revelations of the dance of destinies

– Shah Asad Rizvi

added by shahasadrizvi
2 years ago

When we went through thisprocess to stand up a force,one of the things we had to say over and over and over again to ourselves to be convinced was that we weren’t going to create a big bureaucratic quagmire that the other services have created for themselves over decades or centuries, in some cases.

– Kevin Cramer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

People are born and they die. Wise words live through centuries and eons.

– Sadist Puppeteer

added by aniketgurjar69
2 years ago

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