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The Universe became absurd to me the moment I learned that its geometry is flat, and that Minkowski spacetime is non-net positive (0). One can then deduce that energy can be ported into a spacetime via quantum tunnelling. If/when that's the case, then something can literally be created from 'nothing', hence the absurdity. – Link Starbureiy	added by anonymous 6 months ago
This latest rule on nitrogen oxide emissions takes direct aim at the sort of trucks and heavy equipment that literally drive our entire economy, the same bureaucrats who can’t control inflation or secure the border want to even more closely micromanage the heavy vehicles allowed on our roads. – Mitch McConnell	Found on CNN 12 months ago
The ground is literally sunk in some places by 10 or 15 feet over the past decade, that has literally changed the topography of the historical lakebed. Some places are lower even than they were the last time there was a big flood event. – Daniel Swain	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I would literally have these personality changes, or these dizzy bouts or vertigo, it was just really challenging to navigate all that. – Helen Maroulis	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I had the family ring, and I was literally just sitting there for hours outside the hospital in the rain, i knew as soon as she came out of hospital that I was going to ask her to marry me. – Trail Aaron	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It was a horrible sound to listen to someone, just literally watching somebody die in front of you, you feel so helpless. – Barb Fletcher	Found on CNN 1 year ago
You can literally feel it moving. Lifting up. That’s when we thought we were going too. – Janice Pieterick	Found on CNN 1 year ago
If prison does n’t humble you, I do n’t know what will, when you literally lose everything and you go into a really small cell for 231 days, if that does n’t humble you then you’re lost anyway. – Boris Becker	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Their ability to execute literally flawlessly under that amount of stress while somebody trying to murder them and their children, that is what made the difference here. – Brink Fidler	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I had a back injury about three years ago and it got really pissed off when I was in the harness, it was literally the last thing I shot. It was one of those things where you wake up the next day or two days later and you’re like, ‘ Wow, that got bad. ’. – Jennifer Aniston	Found on CNN 1 year ago
In the year 2010 we are going to change the retirement age for Social Security, you cannot retire at age 65. You have to be 65 years and three months old. And in the year 2012, 65 years and six months in the year – literally raise incrementally the retirement age, beginning around the year 2010. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I would literally be nursing my son, while my daughter put hairclips in my hair, and I’d have my headphones on and would be dialing for dollars. – Grechen Shirley	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We don’t take it lightly. There’s a lot of focused effort that goes into calling those so we understand the gravity of asking people to voluntarily leave their homes, but it’s also weighed with the ability for us to rescue people, knowing that it’s going to be a very difficult – if not impossible – task to get through just tons of tons of dirt and debris where we just literally can’t make access. – Grant Malinowski	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The mainland Chinese learned from their radars where these flights were going, what their targets were, and they began to build sites for the missiles but move them around, so they would build a site here, occupy that site for a while but if they thought the next flight would be going over here, they would move the missiles. It was a cat-and-mouse game, literally a black cat and mouse game between the routines from the flights from Taiwan and those air defense troops of the( Chinese) mainland, working out where the next flight would go. – Chris Pocock	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This is literally what I do every day, i didn’t edit during production just because it was just too big of a load to carry with the writing and the acting, but then you know, being a producer, I was there on set every day going behind-the-scenes with notes, supporting our directors and our DP’s. When I go and watch, editing now, it’s a thrill. That’s a credit to the work that the writers did, but then also the way these actors portray them. – Jason Sudeikis	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Matt Schlapp, of the CPAC, grabbed my junk and pummeled it at length. And I’m sitting there (in the car) saying, ‘What the hell is going on that this person with a wife and kids is literally doing this to me, from Manuel’s Tavern to the Hilton Garden Inn there at the Atlanta Airport,’ he literally has his hands on me. And I feel so fking dirty. Feel so fking dirty. So I don’t know what to do in the morning. – Carlton Huffman	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Some people aren’t ready to see that yet, it’s literally people’s flesh rotting, and you can smell it. – James Sherman	Found on CNN 1 year ago
And I tell you, I’ve eaten more chickens — I’m so sorry to all the vegans and vegetarians and to the chickens of the world, literally the karma is not good for me. If the deity has anything related to chickens, I’m in trouble. – Hugh Jackman	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I thought it was a joke, i couldn’t believe the person that called me. I kept telling them they have to be kidding. When I realized he wasn’t, I literally broke down crying. – Jack Carter	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I literally have access to all the newest, coolest gadgets. – Everette Taylor	Found on CNN 1 year ago
If you tell one person, then they tell someone, and then all of a sudden it’s in TMZ or Page Six, so Carter and I literally made a pact together that we would not tell anyone. – Kathy Hilton	Found on CNN 1 year ago
For now we’ve just been keeping everything really private, not even my mom or my sister or my best friends – no one knew literally until he was over a week old, so it was really nice just to have that with Carter be our own journey together because I just feel that my life has been so public, and I’ve never really had anything just be mine. – Kathy Hilton	Found on CNN 1 year ago
More to the point, one cannot understand The Holocaust without understanding the intentions, ideology, and mechanisms that were put in place in 1933. The eugenics movement may have come to a catastrophic crescendo with the Hitler regime, but the political movement, the world-view, the ideology, and the science that aspired to breed humans like prized horses began almost 100 years earlier. More poignantly, the ideology and those legal and governmental mechanisms of a eugenic world-view inevitably lead back to the British and American counterparts that Hitler’s scientists collaborated with. Posterity must gain understanding of the players that made eugenics a respectable scientific and political movement, as Hitler’s regime was able to evade wholesale condemnation in those critical years between 1933 and 1943 precisely because eugenics had gained international acceptance. As this book will evidence, Hitler’s infamous 1933 laws mimicked those already in place in the United States, Britain, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Canada. So what is this scientific and political movement that for 100 years aspired to breed humans like dogs or horses? Eugenics is quite literally, as defined by its principal proponents, an attempt at “directing evolution” by controlling any aspect of human existence that affects human heredity. From its onset, Francis Galton, the cousin of Charles Darwin and the man credited with the creation of the science of eugenics, knew that the cause of eugenics had to be observed with religious fervor and dedication. As the quote on the opening pages of this book illustrates, a eugenicist must “intrude, intrude, intrude.” A vigilant control over anything and everything that affects the gene pool is essential to eugenics. The policies could not allow for the individual to enjoy self-government or self-determination any more than a horse breeder can allow the animals to determine whom to breed with. One simply cannot breed humans like horses without imbuing the state with the level of control a farmer has over its livestock, not only controlling procreation, but also the diet, access to medical services, and living conditions. – A.E. Samaan	added by AlvaroSiman 1 year ago
That dark night one year ago, the world was literally at the time bracing for the fall of Kyiv. – Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images Biden	Found on CNN 1 year ago

The Universe became absurd to me the moment I learned that its geometry is flat, and that Minkowski spacetime is non-net positive (0). One can then deduce that energy can be ported into a spacetime via quantum tunnelling. If/when that's the case, then something can literally be created from 'nothing', hence the absurdity.

– Link Starbureiy

added by anonymous
6 months ago

This latest rule on nitrogen oxide emissions takes direct aim at the sort of trucks and heavy equipment that literally drive our entire economy, the same bureaucrats who can’t control inflation or secure the border want to even more closely micromanage the heavy vehicles allowed on our roads.

– Mitch McConnell

Found on CNN
12 months ago

The ground is literally sunk in some places by 10 or 15 feet over the past decade, that has literally changed the topography of the historical lakebed. Some places are lower even than they were the last time there was a big flood event.

– Daniel Swain

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I would literally have these personality changes, or these dizzy bouts or vertigo, it was just really challenging to navigate all that.

– Helen Maroulis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I had the family ring, and I was literally just sitting there for hours outside the hospital in the rain, i knew as soon as she came out of hospital that I was going to ask her to marry me.

– Trail Aaron

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was a horrible sound to listen to someone, just literally watching somebody die in front of you, you feel so helpless.

– Barb Fletcher

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You can literally feel it moving. Lifting up. That’s when we thought we were going too.

– Janice Pieterick

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If prison does n’t humble you, I do n’t know what will, when you literally lose everything and you go into a really small cell for 231 days, if that does n’t humble you then you’re lost anyway.

– Boris Becker

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Their ability to execute literally flawlessly under that amount of stress while somebody trying to murder them and their children, that is what made the difference here.

– Brink Fidler

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I had a back injury about three years ago and it got really pissed off when I was in the harness, it was literally the last thing I shot. It was one of those things where you wake up the next day or two days later and you’re like, ‘ Wow, that got bad. ’.

– Jennifer Aniston

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In the year 2010 we are going to change the retirement age for Social Security, you cannot retire at age 65. You have to be 65 years and three months old. And in the year 2012, 65 years and six months in the year – literally raise incrementally the retirement age, beginning around the year 2010.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I would literally be nursing my son, while my daughter put hairclips in my hair, and I’d have my headphones on and would be dialing for dollars.

– Grechen Shirley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We don’t take it lightly. There’s a lot of focused effort that goes into calling those so we understand the gravity of asking people to voluntarily leave their homes, but it’s also weighed with the ability for us to rescue people, knowing that it’s going to be a very difficult – if not impossible – task to get through just tons of tons of dirt and debris where we just literally can’t make access.

– Grant Malinowski

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The mainland Chinese learned from their radars where these flights were going, what their targets were, and they began to build sites for the missiles but move them around, so they would build a site here, occupy that site for a while but if they thought the next flight would be going over here, they would move the missiles. It was a cat-and-mouse game, literally a black cat and mouse game between the routines from the flights from Taiwan and those air defense troops of the( Chinese) mainland, working out where the next flight would go.

– Chris Pocock

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is literally what I do every day, i didn’t edit during production just because it was just too big of a load to carry with the writing and the acting, but then you know, being a producer, I was there on set every day going behind-the-scenes with notes, supporting our directors and our DP’s. When I go and watch, editing now, it’s a thrill. That’s a credit to the work that the writers did, but then also the way these actors portray them.

– Jason Sudeikis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Matt Schlapp, of the CPAC, grabbed my junk and pummeled it at length. And I’m sitting there (in the car) saying, ‘What the hell is going on that this person with a wife and kids is literally doing this to me, from Manuel’s Tavern to the Hilton Garden Inn there at the Atlanta Airport,’ he literally has his hands on me. And I feel so f**king dirty. Feel so f**king dirty. So I don’t know what to do in the morning.

– Carlton Huffman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Some people aren’t ready to see that yet, it’s literally people’s flesh rotting, and you can smell it.

– James Sherman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

And I tell you, I’ve eaten more chickens — I’m so sorry to all the vegans and vegetarians and to the chickens of the world, literally the karma is not good for me. If the deity has anything related to chickens, I’m in trouble.

– Hugh Jackman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I thought it was a joke, i couldn’t believe the person that called me. I kept telling them they have to be kidding. When I realized he wasn’t, I literally broke down crying.

– Jack Carter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I literally have access to all the newest, coolest gadgets.

– Everette Taylor

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you tell one person, then they tell someone, and then all of a sudden it’s in TMZ or Page Six, so Carter and I literally made a pact together that we would not tell anyone.

– Kathy Hilton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For now we’ve just been keeping everything really private, not even my mom or my sister or my best friends – no one knew literally until he was over a week old, so it was really nice just to have that with Carter be our own journey together because I just feel that my life has been so public, and I’ve never really had anything just be mine.

– Kathy Hilton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

More to the point, one cannot understand The Holocaust without understanding the intentions, ideology, and mechanisms that were put in place in 1933. The eugenics movement may have come to a catastrophic crescendo with the Hitler regime, but the political movement, the world-view, the ideology, and the science that aspired to breed humans like prized horses began almost 100 years earlier. More poignantly, the ideology and those legal and governmental mechanisms of a eugenic world-view inevitably lead back to the British and American counterparts that Hitler’s scientists collaborated with. Posterity must gain understanding of the players that made eugenics a respectable scientific and political movement, as Hitler’s regime was able to evade wholesale condemnation in those critical years between 1933 and 1943 precisely because eugenics had gained international acceptance. As this book will evidence, Hitler’s infamous 1933 laws mimicked those already in place in the United States, Britain, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Canada. So what is this scientific and political movement that for 100 years aspired to breed humans like dogs or horses? Eugenics is quite literally, as defined by its principal proponents, an attempt at “directing evolution” by controlling any aspect of human existence that affects human heredity. From its onset, Francis Galton, the cousin of Charles Darwin and the man credited with the creation of the science of eugenics, knew that the cause of eugenics had to be observed with religious fervor and dedication. As the quote on the opening pages of this book illustrates, a eugenicist must “intrude, intrude, intrude.” A vigilant control over anything and everything that affects the gene pool is essential to eugenics. The policies could not allow for the individual to enjoy self-government or self-determination any more than a horse breeder can allow the animals to determine whom to breed with. One simply cannot breed humans like horses without imbuing the state with the level of control a farmer has over its livestock, not only controlling procreation, but also the diet, access to medical services, and living conditions.

– A.E. Samaan

added by AlvaroSiman
1 year ago

That dark night one year ago, the world was literally at the time bracing for the fall of Kyiv.

– Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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