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Why does The Holocaust persist in haunting our conscience? Why does it dominate the introspection of philosophers and historians alike? By the numbers alone, the murders were not unprecedented. At that juncture of 20th Century history, Stalin and Lenin had already brutally murdered tens of millions. The Holocaust fascinates not because of its numbers, but because of the means employed. At no point in time had an entire society dedicated its full might to the perpetual elimination of those unwanted elements of the population. Every aspect of Hitler’s National Socialism was geared towards cleansing and improving the breeding stock of Germania. Hitler’s National Socialist government was focused on the breeding, education, and training of a “master race.” The social, cultural, legislative, and industrial mechanisms of Hitler’s National Socialism were designed to perpetually “select” its populace. The central planners of National Socialism would “select” those that would live, those that would die, and those that would be sterilized slave labor. National Socialism was intended to have the “total” control to decide who would be allowed to procreate, and as a result, those that would be allowed to contribute to Hitler’s ideal society. – A.E. Samaan	added by AlvaroSiman 1 year ago
As an African American woman, I can unequivocally attest to the perpetual existence of discriminatory practices that remain a haunting reality for people of color throughout our nation, i am cautiously optimistic that the cries of our America will be heard and acted upon so that once and for all Black lives are valued in the eyes of all police officers. – Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn Davis	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It seems like perpetual-failed-candidate Hillary Clinton’s basket of deplorables has run stale, not unlike herself, it’s pathetic, it’s divisive, and it is further cementing her legacy of cringe. – Taylor Budowich	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I don't think a perpetual game of catchup is going to work forever. We need to think about new approaches. – Eric Rubin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Tens of thousands of illegal aliens enter Texas every day. Our communities along the border are overrun with criminal aliens. The bodies of illegal aliens abandoned by their smugglers are found every week throughout South Texas, threats and violent actions of cartels have caused landowners and homeowners to abandon the property they worked all of their lives for. Texans along the border live in perpetual crisis as a result of the Administration’s open border policy. – Roy Boyd	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Did people who gave that money think they were putting it into a perpetual account that could be drawn on by the campaign organizers for whatever they wanted ? Maybe the donor wouldn't care about that, but the law cares. – Adav Noti	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Even the most patient long-term shareholders can not be expected to endure the punishing underperformance and perpetual value disconnect seen at Kohl's. – Engine Capital	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We need to find a way to stop this perpetual showstopper once and for all, and I've appealed to my colleagues regardless of how they feel about a yes or no vote to change this system. This is just unfair and it's dangerous for our economy. – Senate Majority Whip Duck Durbin	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It's like a lockdown, but we're not going to solve it by putting on a mask or getting a vaccine, it's just sort of perpetual. It's scary. – Bree Oswill	Found on CNN 2 years ago
... above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent, if, like that authority, its object was to prepare them for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood... – Alexis de Tocqueville	added by Normando 3 years ago
The EU has been in perpetual crisis since 2010 and hasn't solved any of the problems these crises have caused, be The EU the eurozone crisis, the migration crisis or now the Covid crisis. – Gunnar Beck	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency. Always, there has been some terrible evil at home, or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real. – Douglas MacArthur	added by Normando 4 years ago
I have learned that being curious, a perpetual learner, and staying humble throughout the entire journey is a strong key to success – TJ Maloney	added by anonymous 4 years ago
It's a perpetual state of management and communication, to the point where it's like,' All right, we've got to stop. Chill,' i'm gas, and she's brakes. This is actually the premise for a comedy series we're writing together. – Thomas Middleditch	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I could see innocent Californians subjected to perpetual police lineups because of false matches, we must not allow this to happen. – Phil Ting	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Growth is a perpetual process that continues throughout our lives. And challenging ourselves is the foundation upon which growth is enhanced. – RJ Intindola	added by RJ Intindola 4 years ago
Aspen Skiing now means that if a company ever sells any product to any competitor, it then could have a perpetual antitrust obligation to sell every product to every competitor. – Christine Wilson	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Let this be my perpetual memorial day quote for the usa.-any country that cannot provide for the proper healthcare of its citizens should never consider itself worthy of them dying for it in battle. For in a war, no one wins! both sides end up with casualties in body bags and mass graves, and maybe no memorials I am ras cardo who created reggae. You can quote me on that, but do it exactly as written. – RAS CARDO REGGAE	added by anonymous 4 years ago
The Yemeni cynics who criticize everything the other side does even if it is positive and who say the UN are naive seem to be saying the only solution is perpetual war in Yemen. – Michael Aron	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Our names were not recorded by and large. We were not given the recognition that we should have been given, asian-Americans as a whole are often thought of as perpetual foreigners. – Karen Kwan	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our calling and our creeds... [we will] have no time to think, no means of calling our miss-managers to account but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers... And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for [another ]... till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery... And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression. – Thomas Jefferson	added by Normando 5 years ago
We are at a time where injustice has grown to become normal in our country, and it is time for us to work together to get folk woke, to help people understand their power, american history is a perpetual screaming testimony to the achievement of the impossible. – Cory Booker	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It's been a perpetual money loser and that hurts. And at some point people say, 'OK, I've had enough,'. – Robert Campbell	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Considering all that competes for your time and attention, if you don’t actively take steps to simplify your life and carve out what I call “breathing space,” you will most certainly find yourself in a perpetual state of overwhelm. – Jeff Davidson	added by anonymous 5 years ago

Why does The Holocaust persist in haunting our conscience? Why does it dominate the introspection of philosophers and historians alike? By the numbers alone, the murders were not unprecedented. At that juncture of 20th Century history, Stalin and Lenin had already brutally murdered tens of millions. The Holocaust fascinates not because of its numbers, but because of the means employed. At no point in time had an entire society dedicated its full might to the perpetual elimination of those unwanted elements of the population. Every aspect of Hitler’s National Socialism was geared towards cleansing and improving the breeding stock of Germania. Hitler’s National Socialist government was focused on the breeding, education, and training of a “master race.” The social, cultural, legislative, and industrial mechanisms of Hitler’s National Socialism were designed to perpetually “select” its populace. The central planners of National Socialism would “select” those that would live, those that would die, and those that would be sterilized slave labor. National Socialism was intended to have the “total” control to decide who would be allowed to procreate, and as a result, those that would be allowed to contribute to Hitler’s ideal society.

– A.E. Samaan

added by AlvaroSiman
1 year ago

As an African American woman, I can unequivocally attest to the perpetual existence of discriminatory practices that remain a haunting reality for people of color throughout our nation, i am cautiously optimistic that the cries of our America will be heard and acted upon so that once and for all Black lives are valued in the eyes of all police officers.

– Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn Davis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It seems like perpetual-failed-candidate Hillary Clinton’s basket of deplorables has run stale, not unlike herself, it’s pathetic, it’s divisive, and it is further cementing her legacy of cringe.

– Taylor Budowich

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I don't think a perpetual game of catchup is going to work forever. We need to think about new approaches.

– Eric Rubin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Tens of thousands of illegal aliens enter Texas every day. Our communities along the border are overrun with criminal aliens. The bodies of illegal aliens abandoned by their smugglers are found every week throughout South Texas, threats and violent actions of cartels have caused landowners and homeowners to abandon the property they worked all of their lives for. Texans along the border live in perpetual crisis as a result of the Administration’s open border policy.

– Roy Boyd

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Did people who gave that money think they were putting it into a perpetual account that could be drawn on by the campaign organizers for whatever they wanted ? Maybe the donor wouldn't care about that, but the law cares.

– Adav Noti

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Even the most patient long-term shareholders can not be expected to endure the punishing underperformance and perpetual value disconnect seen at Kohl's.

– Engine Capital

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We need to find a way to stop this perpetual showstopper once and for all, and I've appealed to my colleagues regardless of how they feel about a yes or no vote to change this system. This is just unfair and it's dangerous for our economy.

– Senate Majority Whip Duck Durbin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's like a lockdown, but we're not going to solve it by putting on a mask or getting a vaccine, it's just sort of perpetual. It's scary.

– Bree Oswill

Found on CNN
2 years ago

... above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent, if, like that authority, its object was to prepare them for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood...

– Alexis de Tocqueville

added by Normando
3 years ago

The EU has been in perpetual crisis since 2010 and hasn't solved any of the problems these crises have caused, be The EU the eurozone crisis, the migration crisis or now the Covid crisis.

– Gunnar Beck

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency. Always, there has been some terrible evil at home, or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

– Douglas MacArthur

added by Normando
4 years ago

I have learned that being curious, a perpetual learner, and staying humble throughout the entire journey is a strong key to success

– TJ Maloney

added by anonymous
4 years ago

It's a perpetual state of management and communication, to the point where it's like,' All right, we've got to stop. Chill,' i'm gas, and she's brakes. This is actually the premise for a comedy series we're writing together.

– Thomas Middleditch

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I could see innocent Californians subjected to perpetual police lineups because of false matches, we must not allow this to happen.

– Phil Ting

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Growth is a perpetual process that continues throughout our lives. And challenging ourselves is the foundation upon which growth is enhanced.

– RJ Intindola

added by RJ Intindola
4 years ago

Aspen Skiing now means that if a company ever sells any product to any competitor, it then could have a perpetual antitrust obligation to sell every product to every competitor.

– Christine Wilson

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Let this be my perpetual memorial day quote for the usa.-any country that cannot provide for the proper healthcare of its citizens should never consider itself worthy of them dying for it in battle. For in a war, no one wins! both sides end up with casualties in body bags and mass graves, and maybe no memorials I am ras cardo who created reggae. You can quote me on that, but do it exactly as written.

– RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by anonymous
4 years ago

The Yemeni cynics who criticize everything the other side does even if it is positive and who say the UN are naive seem to be saying the only solution is perpetual war in Yemen.

– Michael Aron

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Our names were not recorded by and large. We were not given the recognition that we should have been given, asian-Americans as a whole are often thought of as perpetual foreigners.

– Karen Kwan

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our calling and our creeds... [we will] have no time to think, no means of calling our miss-managers to account but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers... And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for [another ]... till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery... And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.

– Thomas Jefferson

added by Normando
5 years ago

We are at a time where injustice has grown to become normal in our country, and it is time for us to work together to get folk woke, to help people understand their power, american history is a perpetual screaming testimony to the achievement of the impossible.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It's been a perpetual money loser and that hurts. And at some point people say, 'OK, I've had enough,'.

– Robert Campbell

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Considering all that competes for your time and attention, if you don’t actively take steps to simplify your life and carve out what I call “breathing space,” you will most certainly find yourself in a perpetual state of overwhelm.

– Jeff Davidson

added by anonymous
5 years ago

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