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I believe this Witch-Hunt will backfire massively on Joe Biden, the American people realize exactly what the Radical Left Democrats are doing here. Everyone can see it. So our Movement, and our Party – united and strong – will first defeat Alvin Bragg, and then we will defeat Joe Biden, and we are going to throw every last one of these Crooked Democrats out of office so we can MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

– Donald Trump

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1 year ago

That was one of the things that I believe gave us kind of a clear, unshakable purpose, because we all believe that God wanted us to work toward peace, it was one of the few things on which we agreed, at first.

– Jimmy Carter

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1 year ago

First of all, there is no infighting because they’re not in.

– Chris Smalls

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1 year ago

The First Lady is a key messenger for the administration’s priorities and will continue to highlight the President’s accomplishments across the country through her travel on the Investing in America tour.

– Vanessa Valdivia

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1 year ago

In the history of the lake, created in the early 1980s, this is the first time that this situation has been so serious.

– Boris Rouquet

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1 year ago

It’s not just having the usual stuff that people have been able to wager… it’s the conversation starter questions around those sports: what’s happening in those sports that keep them relevant, even when the first pitch of the season hasn’t started yet.

– Pat Morrow

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1 year ago

...first ascertain exactly the position of the various capitalists, then control them, influence them by restricting or enlarging, facilitating or hindering their credits, and finally they can entirely determine their fate.

– Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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1 year ago

As a teacher, I’ve imagined that scene in my own classroom, again and again, at the start of each semester, I’m sure all of you in here who are teachers do this, you explain to your students on the first day a path, a pathway, to get out if a shooter comes into the school so that they’re prepared.

– Joe Biden

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1 year ago

Although, the stress-eating — this is the first time that I know of that anyone has found this effect in response to anthropogenic stresses in the field.

– Tracy Langkilde

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1 year ago

To be honest, at first, I was very hesitant when this idea was discussed, my mind keeps telling me to back off. I mean, let’s be real here, it was too ambitious to say the least. Like, how can a small group of students from the Pacific Region convince the majority of the UN members to support this unique initiative?

– Cynthia Houniuhi

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1 year ago

We hope that the highest court in the world, the International Court of Justice, will hand down an opinion that will be greatly persuasive in terms of increasing domestic action and identifying what gaps in international law and domestic law that need to be filled, this will be the first time that this organ of the UN will actually have to address the climate crisis, and the legal obligations of states in that regard, so it is quite historic.

– Ralph Regenvanu

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1 year ago

The full implementation is going to take months and years, there is a lot of unimplemented or to be implemented provisions in there. Let’s talk about that first.

– Thom Tillis

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1 year ago

Chief Abbassi is an experienced, proven leader who has built community trust and achieved excellence through Chief Abbassi innovation at the highest levels of law enforcement in this country, i am grateful for Attorney General Matthew Platkin service and I look forward to working with Attorney General Matthew Platkin to ensure public safety in Paterson. Attorney General Matthew Platkin acknowledged that the change in leadership is just the first step in the long process of trying to regain public trust.

– Attorney General Matthew Platkin

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1 year ago

We have made multiple good faith attempts to find common ground so we could see this critical piece of information. Unfortunately, Secretary Blinken has refused to provide the Dissent Cable and his response to the cable, forcing me to issue my first subpoena as chairman of this committee.

– Michael McCaul

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1 year ago

Our community is heartbroken. We are grieving tremendous loss and are in shock coming out of the terror that shattered our school and church. We are focused on loving our students, our families, our faculty and staff and beginning the process of healing, law enforcement is conducting its investigation, and while we understand there is a lot of interest and there will be a lot of discussion about and speculation surrounding what happened, we will continue to prioritize the well-being of our community. We appreciate the outpouring of support we have received, and we are tremendously grateful to the first responders who acted quickly to protect our students, faculty and staff. We ask for privacy as our community grapples with this terrible tragedy – for our students, parents, faculty and staff.

– Covenant School

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1 year ago

I will be a First Minister for all of Scotland. I will work every minute of every day to earn and to re-earn your respect and your trust.

– Humza Yousaf

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1 year ago

I am a first generation Mexican immigrant. And I’m not rich, this was self-supported. And it really doesn’t take that much money to do this.

– Liam Garner

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1 year ago

Again, I want to reiterate, we have not detected any of these contaminants in our water and will continue to use that as our first basis for any decision-making that we make, we have enough water to sustain a safe use for drinking, cooking – all purposes – through till at least 11:59 p.m., Monday, March 27.

– Michael Carroll

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1 year 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

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1 year ago

Frankly, managing your interest rate risk exposure — that’s one of the first things that I teach an undergraduate banking class, it’s textbook stuff.

– John Sedunov

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1 year ago

Whether Stryke Club’s young sensitive skin, or acne, eczema or their first shave, boys have specific skin needs, we also have to help them overcome this stigma about being a boy and engaging in self care.

– Sheilagh Maguiness

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1 year ago

A lot of my colleagues, especially on the select committee, use rhetoric like, ‘This is a new Cold War,’ first of all, it’s not true: The Soviet Union was a very different competitor than China. And it’s framed in a very zero-sum way … It’s very much being talked about as if their entire way of life is incompatible with ours and cannot coexist with ours, and that heightens the tension.

– Andy Kim

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1 year ago

For sure, Marc will want to be in front because he will want his revenge, he will be in front for sure from the first race and will be a tough rival, but we are tough too. So we have to have a great battle, we have to work hard to be in front, and let’s see who will be the main contender.

– The Honda rider

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1 year ago

Kira means everything to me. Probably she is the meaning in my life in the first place. I don’t even know, to be honest, I can’t imagine my life without Kira.

– Tetiana Pavelko

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1 year ago

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    cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of
    A abase
    B emanate
    C elate
    D efface