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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 month 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 month 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 month ago
They'll be asked to analyze and contextualize common practices and problems across the centuries. – Elizabeth Scala -LRB- @swiftieprof -RRB-	Found on CNN 7 months 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 9 months 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 9 months 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
People are born and they die. Wise words live through centuries and eons. – Sadist Puppeteer	added by aniketgurjar69 1 year ago
The trade deal is clear but I think there has been some confusion about how it needs to be implemented, because we absolutely respect the historic rights of French fishermen to fish in Jersey waters as they have been doing for centuries, i do think a solution can be found. I am optimistic that we can provide extra time to allow this evidence to be provided. – Ian Gorst	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Our lawsuit demonstrated for the first time that the Emoluments Clauses, centuries-old anti-corruption protections embedded in the Constitution, can be enforced and that Emoluments Clauses mean federal officials can not accept anything of value from foreign or domestic governments, the Supreme Court's decision. – Karl Racine	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Over the centuries through storm and strife, in peace and in war, we've come so far, but we still have far to go. – Facebook Biden	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I ... believe thatsomebody in my position really needs to show up to witness the transfer of power, the peaceful transfer of power, it is a magical moment, something that American history has proven to be able to see through over, you know, centuries. – The Indiana native	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
What’s “just” has been debated for centuries, but let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then, tell me how much of what I earn “belongs” to you -- and why? – Walter E. Williams	added by Normando 2 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 month 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 month 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 month ago

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

– Elizabeth Scala -LRB- @swiftieprof -RRB-

Found on CNN
7 months 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
9 months 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
9 months 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year ago

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

– Sadist Puppeteer

added by aniketgurjar69
1 year ago

The trade deal is clear but I think there has been some confusion about how it needs to be implemented, because we absolutely respect the historic rights of French fishermen to fish in Jersey waters as they have been doing for centuries, i do think a solution can be found. I am optimistic that we can provide extra time to allow this evidence to be provided.

– Ian Gorst

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Our lawsuit demonstrated for the first time that the Emoluments Clauses, centuries-old anti-corruption protections embedded in the Constitution, can be enforced and that Emoluments Clauses mean federal officials can not accept anything of value from foreign or domestic governments, the Supreme Court's decision.

– Karl Racine

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Over the centuries through storm and strife, in peace and in war, we've come so far, but we still have far to go.

– Facebook Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I ... believe thatsomebody in my position really needs to show up to witness the transfer of power, the peaceful transfer of power, it is a magical moment, something that American history has proven to be able to see through over, you know, centuries.

– The Indiana native

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

What’s “just” has been debated for centuries, but let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then, tell me how much of what I earn “belongs” to you -- and why?

– Walter E. Williams

added by Normando
2 years ago

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