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Mortgage application activity sunk to a quarter-century low this week as high mortgage rates continue to weaken the housing market, while mortgage market activity has significantly shrunk over the last year, inflationary pressures are easing and should lead to lower mortgage rates in 2023. – Freddie Mac	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The seizure of Bruce’s Beach nearly a century ago was an injustice inflicted upon not just Willa and Charles Bruce but generations of their descendants who almost certainly would have been millionaires. – Janice Hahn	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The fact of the matter is, millions of people have been killed in vicious circumstances on a regular basis throughout history, they went to the Congo in the late 19th century and decimated it. – Roger Hallam	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We are confident that a majority of justices will uphold the U.S. Constitution and end the divisive and failing policy of using race in college admissions, because of such horrendous discrimination, many Asian-American applicants have to hide their racial identity to get admitted by America’s selective colleges. Unfortunately, in 21st century America, our children are still being treated as second-class citizens. – Mike Zhao	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
This is Jim Crow in the 21st Century, it must end. We have a moral and Constitutional obligation to act. – President Biden	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
It looks like this is just the beginning, because, if you read the filing and have any understanding of what took place, and I called this a long time ago, you're going to see a lot of other things happening, having to do with what, really, just is a continuation of the crime of the century, this is such a big event, nobody's seen anything like this. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think this is an activist court, we had an established right for almost half a century, which is the right of women to make decisions about their own body. – Kamala Harris	Found on CNN 1 year ago
For a century and a half, 18-year-olds could buy rifles and we didn’t have school shootings. But we do, maybe we’re focusing our attention on the wrong thing. – Greg Abbott	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
House Democrats are celebrating all these higher taxes, all this government price setting, none of which by the way, are going to lower inflation, lower the budget deficit, or lower global temperatures for the most part over the next century. But who in their right mind raises taxes in a recession? – Kevin Brady	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
This leftist political strategy to win office and power relies on something very powerful: the desire to increase the number of Americans who are dependent on getting money that is taken from other citizens. Sadly, this strategy has worked for half a century! And now it works because Americans who are trapped in this nightmare do not want their government money taken away from them! – Star Parker	added by Normando 1 year ago
If we don't recreate Austen's nineteenth-century stories for our own time, and attract new generations of viewers, then these texts won't live on, so I'm definitely all for adaptations that use Austen's material as an inspiration, and make their own mark on it, rather than treating Jane Austen originals as blueprints that must be religiously copied. – Devoney Looser	Found on CNN 1 year ago
If you really want to compete with Russia and China to prevent the 21st Century from being dominated by a new axis of evil, you must first defeat the Church of Global Warming. As long as that’s the official state religion of the Western world, we haven’t got a prayer. – John Hayward	added by Normando 1 year ago
We've been around for a quarter-century at this point, and there's been a lot of trends that have happened throughout the alcohol industry, we've stayed true to our roots — which is doing one thing, and doing one thing right. – Taylor Berry	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The five-day working week is a 20th century concept, which is no longer fit for the 21st century. – Charity Bank	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It's the 21st century : Enough is enough, i left my country, Iran, to be safe, to be the voice for voiceless people. That's my crime. I want to enjoy freedom of expression as an American. – Masih Alinejad	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The Senate made the bipartisan decision as a nation to invest in America's manufacturing technology of semiconductors and additional funding for basic research and development in the cutting edge industries of the 21st century. – President Biden	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Today, the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade, declaring that the constitutional right to abortion, upheld for nearly a half-century, no longer exists. In less than 24 hours, we celebrated equal rights for women, and now we react to women’s reproductive rights being taken away. – Malika Andrews	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
For almost two decades, I have been scrutinizing every single picture of wild Victoria waterlilies over the internet, a luxury that a botanist from the 18th, 19th and most of the 20th century didn't have, i have learnt so much in the process of officially naming this new species and it's been the biggest achievement of my 20-year career at Kew. – Carlos Magdalena	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We're seeing snow melting about a month earlier than it did a century ago, and there's evaporation as well, and that really affects the levels of water in the [Grand Canyon's groundwater] aquifer, we're concerned about how it will affect the springs, which are our drinking water source, as well as the vast majority of the biodiversity around the springs. – Mark Nebel	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When we go back and resurvey places [in Joshua Tree] that the early scientists at UC Berkeley visited a century ago, we find about half as many birds, and that's because it's warmed and dried so much, what we're seeing is a whole kind of change in a community; a collapse in the case of birds. For park managers, there's limits of what they can actually do to reverse this because of the climate change effects. – Steve Beissinger	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I'm hoping that when the ship makes its trips, it will excite people in many different ways, but particularly in giving Barbara Wagstaff a feeling of what a brilliant period this was in seventh century Britain. – Martin Carver	Found on CNN 1 year ago
New York's strong gun laws have saved lives for more than a century, and the Supreme Court's decision to open the door for millions of New Yorkers to carry a concealed weapon is a nightmare for public safety, evidence is overwhelming that states with permissive gun laws see much higher rates of gun deaths -- from accidents to suicide, domestic incidents to street crime. – Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The most brutal dictators of the 20th century loved cinema. – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The last species of Poecilocharax was described in 1965, more than half a century ago, so seeing these fishes in our net was one big' wow' moment. – Murilo Pastana	Found on CNN 1 year ago

Mortgage application activity sunk to a quarter-century low this week as high mortgage rates continue to weaken the housing market, while mortgage market activity has significantly shrunk over the last year, inflationary pressures are easing and should lead to lower mortgage rates in 2023.

– Freddie Mac

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The seizure of Bruce’s Beach nearly a century ago was an injustice inflicted upon not just Willa and Charles Bruce but generations of their descendants who almost certainly would have been millionaires.

– Janice Hahn

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The fact of the matter is, millions of people have been killed in vicious circumstances on a regular basis throughout history, they went to the Congo in the late 19th century and decimated it.

– Roger Hallam

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We are confident that a majority of justices will uphold the U.S. Constitution and end the divisive and failing policy of using race in college admissions, because of such horrendous discrimination, many Asian-American applicants have to hide their racial identity to get admitted by America’s selective colleges. Unfortunately, in 21st century America, our children are still being treated as second-class citizens.

– Mike Zhao

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

This is Jim Crow in the 21st Century, it must end. We have a moral and Constitutional obligation to act.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It looks like this is just the beginning, because, if you read the filing and have any understanding of what took place, and I called this a long time ago, you're going to see a lot of other things happening, having to do with what, really, just is a continuation of the crime of the century, this is such a big event, nobody's seen anything like this.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think this is an activist court, we had an established right for almost half a century, which is the right of women to make decisions about their own body.

– Kamala Harris

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For a century and a half, 18-year-olds could buy rifles and we didn’t have school shootings. But we do, maybe we’re focusing our attention on the wrong thing.

– Greg Abbott

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

House Democrats are celebrating all these higher taxes, all this government price setting, none of which by the way, are going to lower inflation, lower the budget deficit, or lower global temperatures for the most part over the next century. But who in their right mind raises taxes in a recession?

– Kevin Brady

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

This leftist political strategy to win office and power relies on something very powerful: the desire to increase the number of Americans who are dependent on getting money that is taken from other citizens. Sadly, this strategy has worked for half a century! And now it works because Americans who are trapped in this nightmare do not want their government money taken away from them!

– Star Parker

added by Normando
1 year ago

If we don't recreate Austen's nineteenth-century stories for our own time, and attract new generations of viewers, then these texts won't live on, so I'm definitely all for adaptations that use Austen's material as an inspiration, and make their own mark on it, rather than treating Jane Austen originals as blueprints that must be religiously copied.

– Devoney Looser

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you really want to compete with Russia and China to prevent the 21st Century from being dominated by a new axis of evil, you must first defeat the Church of Global Warming. As long as that’s the official state religion of the Western world, we haven’t got a prayer.

– John Hayward

added by Normando
1 year ago

We've been around for a quarter-century at this point, and there's been a lot of trends that have happened throughout the alcohol industry, we've stayed true to our roots — which is doing one thing, and doing one thing right.

– Taylor Berry

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The five-day working week is a 20th century concept, which is no longer fit for the 21st century.

– Charity Bank

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's the 21st century : Enough is enough, i left my country, Iran, to be safe, to be the voice for voiceless people. That's my crime. I want to enjoy freedom of expression as an American.

– Masih Alinejad

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Senate made the bipartisan decision as a nation to invest in America's manufacturing technology of semiconductors and additional funding for basic research and development in the cutting edge industries of the 21st century.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Today, the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade, declaring that the constitutional right to abortion, upheld for nearly a half-century, no longer exists. In less than 24 hours, we celebrated equal rights for women, and now we react to women’s reproductive rights being taken away.

– Malika Andrews

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

For almost two decades, I have been scrutinizing every single picture of wild Victoria waterlilies over the internet, a luxury that a botanist from the 18th, 19th and most of the 20th century didn't have, i have learnt so much in the process of officially naming this new species and it's been the biggest achievement of my 20-year career at Kew.

– Carlos Magdalena

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We're seeing snow melting about a month earlier than it did a century ago, and there's evaporation as well, and that really affects the levels of water in the [Grand Canyon's groundwater] aquifer, we're concerned about how it will affect the springs, which are our drinking water source, as well as the vast majority of the biodiversity around the springs.

– Mark Nebel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When we go back and resurvey places [in Joshua Tree] that the early scientists at UC Berkeley visited a century ago, we find about half as many birds, and that's because it's warmed and dried so much, what we're seeing is a whole kind of change in a community; a collapse in the case of birds. For park managers, there's limits of what they can actually do to reverse this because of the climate change effects.

– Steve Beissinger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I'm hoping that when the ship makes its trips, it will excite people in many different ways, but particularly in giving Barbara Wagstaff a feeling of what a brilliant period this was in seventh century Britain.

– Martin Carver

Found on CNN
1 year ago

New York's strong gun laws have saved lives for more than a century, and the Supreme Court's decision to open the door for millions of New Yorkers to carry a concealed weapon is a nightmare for public safety, evidence is overwhelming that states with permissive gun laws see much higher rates of gun deaths -- from accidents to suicide, domestic incidents to street crime.

– Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The most brutal dictators of the 20th century loved cinema.

– Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The last species of Poecilocharax was described in 1965, more than half a century ago, so seeing these fishes in our net was one big' wow' moment.

– Murilo Pastana

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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