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True peace must be felt within; any peace externally imposed that leaves turmoil within is not peace at all.

Aloo Denish Obiero

added by Aloo-Denish
13 days ago

A great once said he had a dream, yet many of us remain slaves of our own minds and possessions. Until we break the chains of self-imposed limitations and material attachments, the dream of true freedom will elude us, and the echoes of liberation will only be whispers in the corridors of our aspirations.

Christen Kuikoua

added by ChristenKuikouafans
2 months ago

The illegitimate restrictions imposed on the Russian economy may indeed have a negative impact on it in the medium term.

Vladimir Putin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We must stick to banning Russian and Belarusian athletes, sending a strong message worldwide that we are united in the sanctions imposed against Russia and Belarus and that there are consequences for the heinous acts of their governments.

Elina Svitolina

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That’s a political agenda, that’s the wrong side of the line for Florida standards. We believe in teaching kids facts and how to think, but we don’t believe they should have an agenda imposed on them when you try to use Black history to shoehorn in queer theory, you are clearly trying to use that for political purposes.

Ron DeSantis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s certainly wonderful that Attorney General Garland has imposed a moratorium. It’s certainly wonderful that he withdrew many of the capital prosecutions that had been authorized under the Trump administration, but there’s more that, from an abolitionist perspective, (Biden) ought to be doing.

Austin Sarat

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Ezra Miller pled guilty this morning to a misdemeanor unlawful trespass in Vermont Superior Court and accepted the conditions imposed by the court, ezra would like to thank the court and the community for their trust and patience throughout this process and would once again like to acknowledge the love and support they have received from their family and friends, who continue to be a vital presence in their ongoing mental health.

Lisa Shelkrot

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they have resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress.

Frederick Douglass

added by Normando
1 year ago

People have once again imposed their full confidence in us, we will fulfill their aspirations and will always value the confidence they have placed in us.

Mahinda Rajapaksa

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Students in our universities are inundated with critical race theory. This is a Marxist doctrine holding that America is a wicked and racist nation, that even young children are complicit in oppression, and that our entire society must be radically transformed, critical race theory is being forced into our children's schools, it's being imposed into workplace trainings, and it's being deployed to rip apart friends, neighbors and families.

President Trump

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I will simply say we are disappointed by the outcome of today's hearing, but will abide by the decision, it is important to remember, however, this is only a stay of the sanctions imposed, pending the hearing of the players’ appeal as to whether those sanctions were appropriate.

Keith Pelley

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It has to go back to the legislature to be drawn, and so that circular, multi-layered stages of Dante's Hell has been imposed on Read MoreOn the flip side.

Kathay Feng

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I'm talking with the secretary when we get home. I am considering The US. We did not impose any of those tariffs. They're imposed by the last administration and they're under consideration.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

So far, the government seems to be walking a line of maintaining friendly relationships with Russia without encouraging or directing Chinese firms to increase business with the country, and discouraging anything that might run afoul of the sanctions imposed on China, this line does mean that China's imports from Russia are likely to grow simply on market basis, as other buyers move to embargo Russian fossil fuels.

Lauri Myllyvirta

Found on CNN
1 year ago

we dream of peace and tranquility, the day when we no longer despair but our self-imposed angst cannot be avoided. we can't run. it won't go away. the noises i hear in my hell are very real and i'll continue to exist in an interested sort of anguish, looking for bloodstains on acid free sidewalks.

Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
1 year ago

Monopoly rents are being imposed upon every website that is ad-supported and every company — small, medium, or large — that relies on internet advertising to grow its business, it is essentially a tax on thousands of American businesses, and thus a tax on millions of American consumers.

Mike Lee

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Russian President Vladimir Putin ultimate goal is, was and will be to take over Ukraine, but Russian President Vladimir Putin failed. Russian President Vladimir Putin failed due to a very strong resolve of Ukrainian military and very strong unity of Ukraine and the Western world, and the sanctions that have been imposed by the The US and G7 and the European Union, so now, as far as I see, Russian President Vladimir Putin switched to Plan B. My take is that this Plan B has a, kind of, deadline. The deadline is the ninth of May.

Arseniy Yatsenyuk

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is an individual who, across her career — from the time she was in law school, to her service on the United States Sentencing Commission, to her time on the federal bench — has consistently argued to give criminals lighter sentences to reduce the mandatory sentences that are imposed for criminal offenses to let criminals out of jail early.

Josh Hawley

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It was imposed symbolically by Trump, they knew it wouldn't have much of an impact.

Mehran Haghirian

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The world has turned against Russia because of its actions in Ukraine, the destruction that Russian bombs are raining down on innocent civilians has so outraged the world that the strongest global economic sanctions ever taken have been imposed on your country … This is not the war to defend Russia like your grandfather or your great-grandfather fought. This is an illegal war!

Michael Ochs

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

After the story broke, Tapper reportedly reached out to Parnell repeatedly asking him to make a joint statement to clear Tapper’s name of this obvious breach of journalistic ethics. CNN conducted no inquiry and imposed no disciplinary measures on Tapper.

Chris Cuomo

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The lack of proportionality between the tiny increase in risk and lack of control, and the liability for all damaged by heatwaves, bushfires and rising sea levels to all Australians under the age of 18 ongoing into the future, mean that the duty in tort should not be imposed.

Chief Justice James Allsop

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The question of banning the import of oil and gas from Russia, it is not insignificant. We actually take in more petroleum from Russia then we do from Saudi Arabia. It's extraordinary, George, for all the sanctions that have been imposed, and they have been unprecedented on Russia, to sanction everything but the thing that drives our economy.

Jonathan Karl

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We admire the generosity of hospitality, the willingness to be such good friends to people who are in distress, and, indeed, I want to do everything we can to help you deal with the burden that this has imposed.

Antony Blinken

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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