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I don’t believe it’s helpful to encourage citizens to seek damages whenever they feel aggrieved in the slightest way. – Rick Just	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I told Gareth Bale, ‘ you ca n’t be so good at professional football and golf at the same time, it just does n’t seem fair ’, ca n’t be dedicated to one thing and have this much talent for golf, it’s not fair in the slightest. – John Rahm	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Nearly all the military equipment, which stood close to the building without the slightest sign of camouflage, was also destroyed, there are still no final figures on the number of casualties, as many people are still missing. – Igor Girkin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When there is war in European Union and a European neighbor is exposed to what we see in Ukraine, there is not the slightest doubt in my mind : We must help as best we can... by welcoming Ukrainians on Danish soil. – Mattias Tesfaye	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Speaking of minor and full incursions or full invasion, you can not be half-aggressive. You're either aggressive or you're not aggressive, we should not give Putin the slightest chance to play with quasi-aggression or small incursion operations. This aggression was there since 2014. This is the fact. – Dmytro Kuleba	Found on CNN 2 years ago
What was a minor temporary event for other carriers devastated Southwest Airlines because our operation has become brittle and subject to massive failures under the slightest pressure, southwest Airlines Pilots Association are tired and frustrated because our operation is running on empty due to a lack of support from the company. – Casey Murray	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It’s amazing how sensitive we are to the slightest tweaking of when and how big the stimulus will be, stocks are going to start to price in a bigger economic relief package from the Biden administration. – Ed Moya	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The fingers of our heroic armed forces are on the trigger, and if enemies commit the slightest mistake, the armed forces will surely respond fiercely. – Mohammad Baqeri	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
To be GOVERNED is to be kept in sight, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom, nor the virtue to do so. . . To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction, noted, registered, enrolled, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, trained, ransomed, exploited, monopolized, extorted, squeezed, mystified, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, despised, harassed, tracked, abused, clubbed, disarmed, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality. – Pierre-Joseph Proudhon	added by Normando 3 years ago
You are in the hands of the Gestapo. Don't imagine that we shall show you the slightest consideration. The Fuhrer has already shown the world that he is invincible and soon he will come and liberate the people of England from the Jews and Plutocrats such as you. It is war and Germany is fighting for her existence. You are in the greatest danger and if you want to live another day must be very careful. – Heinrich Muller	added by Normando 3 years ago
She was so loving. If you looked sad, she would comfort you. If you got even the slightest little poke, she would sign' sorry' and then kiss your boo-boo, when her baby cousin cried, she would sign' Baby, cry, Mama, milk.'. – Seraphina Harrell	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Take someone who doesn’t keep score, who’s not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he’s free. – Rumi	added by Normando 3 years ago
This only works if people are willing to get to know each other, to be honest and authentic about their expectations and desires, and not run at the slightest bump in the road, so to speak, relationship building takes time, and right now, that's all we have. – Logan Levkoff	Found on CNN 3 years ago
As long as there is a slightest chance of a peaceful resolution, we will put in hundred times the effort. – Li Zuocheng	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We should think of the current outbreak as a preview of things to come, the slightest taste of what life will be like during the Great Tribulation as recorded in the Book of Revelation. – Tom Meyer	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I'd like to be super clear that if you feel the slightest bit ill or even uncomfortable, please do not feel obligated to come to work. – Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Truth can not be manipulated in the slightest. It is the perception of truth that is pliable. To dismiss truth as a fairy tale is the endeavor of the fool. – unknown	added by anonymous 4 years ago
Such elated spirit and bluffing may greatly get on the nerve of the dialogue partner even at the slightest slip, the use of armed forces against the DPRK will be a horrible thing for the US. – Kim Jong	Found on CNN 4 years ago
If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constitution framed by the Convention, where I had the honor to preside, might possibly endanger the religious rights of any ecclesiastical Society, certainly I would never have placed my signature to it. – George Washington	added by Normando 4 years ago
Peter Anthony Gallo, an international lawyer and former investigator for the UNs own watchdog, the OIOS, told Fox News that Peter Anthony Gallo was not surprised by the allegations. [ They ] do not surprise me in the slightest ; there is nothing unusual in them and they could just as easily have come from any one of a number of Organizations in the UN system because they reflect the management culture of disregard for the staff, disregard for the rules and a general air of entitlement and impunity, he said. Gallo who himself was a whistleblower at the U.N. and now director of, Hear their Cries, a group that reports on sexual abuse and exploitation around the world and at the UN. The problem is that U.N. agencies control their own investigative functions and deal with disciplinary matters internally. The result is that instead of being a means of addressing misconduct and wrongdoing, the internal justice system is more of a tool for intimidating any staff members who dare to report misconduct by senior staff, such as by Krahenbuhl and his cronies. Following reports that both Switzerland and the Netherlands suspended their funding to UNRWA, Israels United Nations Ambassador Danny Danon called upon all of the international to suspend funding. The report reveals alarming, but not surprising, findings. In addition to propagating false information about its refugee population, UNRWA has in recent years worked to redirect world funds to continue this corruption industry that has served its leadership. The international community, which generously finances UNRWA, must immediately suspend the budgets assigned to the agency. Ambassador Danon said. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP The aid money should be gradually transferred to the UNHCR( UN High Commissioner for Refugees), instead of helping the UNRWA leadership continue engaging in a series of ethical offenses. – Ambassador Danon	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
The decisions will not affect in the slightest our country's determination to continue hydrocarbon activities in the Eastern Mediterranean. – The Turkish foreign ministry	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
This right to life, this right to liberty, and this right to pursue one’s happiness is unabashedly individualistic, without in the slightest denying at the same time our thoroughly social nature. It’s only that our social relations, while vital to us all, must be chosen - that is what makes the crucial difference. – Tibor R. Machan	added by anonymous 4 years ago
This is a genuine popular democratic uprising, it's not led by the United States. But we should not be saying things from Washington that create even the slightest impression to the contrary. – Tom Malinowski	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach. – Hugo Black	added by Normando 5 years ago

I don’t believe it’s helpful to encourage citizens to seek damages whenever they feel aggrieved in the slightest way.

– Rick Just

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I told Gareth Bale, ‘ you ca n’t be so good at professional football and golf at the same time, it just does n’t seem fair ’, ca n’t be dedicated to one thing and have this much talent for golf, it’s not fair in the slightest.

– John Rahm

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Nearly all the military equipment, which stood close to the building without the slightest sign of camouflage, was also destroyed, there are still no final figures on the number of casualties, as many people are still missing.

– Igor Girkin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When there is war in European Union and a European neighbor is exposed to what we see in Ukraine, there is not the slightest doubt in my mind : We must help as best we can... by welcoming Ukrainians on Danish soil.

– Mattias Tesfaye

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Speaking of minor and full incursions or full invasion, you can not be half-aggressive. You're either aggressive or you're not aggressive, we should not give Putin the slightest chance to play with quasi-aggression or small incursion operations. This aggression was there since 2014. This is the fact.

– Dmytro Kuleba

Found on CNN
2 years ago

What was a minor temporary event for other carriers devastated Southwest Airlines because our operation has become brittle and subject to massive failures under the slightest pressure, southwest Airlines Pilots Association are tired and frustrated because our operation is running on empty due to a lack of support from the company.

– Casey Murray

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It’s amazing how sensitive we are to the slightest tweaking of when and how big the stimulus will be, stocks are going to start to price in a bigger economic relief package from the Biden administration.

– Ed Moya

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The fingers of our heroic armed forces are on the trigger, and if enemies commit the slightest mistake, the armed forces will surely respond fiercely.

– Mohammad Baqeri

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

To be GOVERNED is to be kept in sight, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom, nor the virtue to do so. . . To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction, noted, registered, enrolled, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, trained, ransomed, exploited, monopolized, extorted, squeezed, mystified, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, despised, harassed, tracked, abused, clubbed, disarmed, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.

– Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

added by Normando
3 years ago

You are in the hands of the Gestapo. Don't imagine that we shall show you the slightest consideration. The Fuhrer has already shown the world that he is invincible and soon he will come and liberate the people of England from the Jews and Plutocrats such as you. It is war and Germany is fighting for her existence. You are in the greatest danger and if you want to live another day must be very careful.

– Heinrich Muller

added by Normando
3 years ago

She was so loving. If you looked sad, she would comfort you. If you got even the slightest little poke, she would sign' sorry' and then kiss your boo-boo, when her baby cousin cried, she would sign' Baby, cry, Mama, milk.'.

– Seraphina Harrell

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Take someone who doesn’t keep score, who’s not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he’s free.

– Rumi

added by Normando
3 years ago

This only works if people are willing to get to know each other, to be honest and authentic about their expectations and desires, and not run at the slightest bump in the road, so to speak, relationship building takes time, and right now, that's all we have.

– Logan Levkoff

Found on CNN
3 years ago

As long as there is a slightest chance of a peaceful resolution, we will put in hundred times the effort.

– Li Zuocheng

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

We should think of the current outbreak as a preview of things to come, the slightest taste of what life will be like during the Great Tribulation as recorded in the Book of Revelation.

– Tom Meyer

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I'd like to be super clear that if you feel the slightest bit ill or even uncomfortable, please do not feel obligated to come to work.

– Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Truth can not be manipulated in the slightest. It is the perception of truth that is pliable. To dismiss truth as a fairy tale is the endeavor of the fool.

– unknown

added by anonymous
4 years ago

Such elated spirit and bluffing may greatly get on the nerve of the dialogue partner even at the slightest slip, the use of armed forces against the DPRK will be a horrible thing for the US.

– Kim Jong

Found on CNN
4 years ago

If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constitution framed by the Convention, where I had the honor to preside, might possibly endanger the religious rights of any ecclesiastical Society, certainly I would never have placed my signature to it.

– George Washington

added by Normando
4 years ago

Peter Anthony Gallo, an international lawyer and former investigator for the UNs own watchdog, the OIOS, told Fox News that Peter Anthony Gallo was not surprised by the allegations. [ They ] do not surprise me in the slightest ; there is nothing unusual in them and they could just as easily have come from any one of a number of Organizations in the UN system because they reflect the management culture of disregard for the staff, disregard for the rules and a general air of entitlement and impunity, he said. Gallo who himself was a whistleblower at the U.N. and now director of, Hear their Cries, a group that reports on sexual abuse and exploitation around the world and at the UN. The problem is that U.N. agencies control their own investigative functions and deal with disciplinary matters internally. The result is that instead of being a means of addressing misconduct and wrongdoing, the internal justice system is more of a tool for intimidating any staff members who dare to report misconduct by senior staff, such as by Krahenbuhl and his cronies. Following reports that both Switzerland and the Netherlands suspended their funding to UNRWA, Israels United Nations Ambassador Danny Danon called upon all of the international to suspend funding. The report reveals alarming, but not surprising, findings. In addition to propagating false information about its refugee population, UNRWA has in recent years worked to redirect world funds to continue this corruption industry that has served its leadership. The international community, which generously finances UNRWA, must immediately suspend the budgets assigned to the agency. Ambassador Danon said. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP The aid money should be gradually transferred to the UNHCR( UN High Commissioner for Refugees), instead of helping the UNRWA leadership continue engaging in a series of ethical offenses.

– Ambassador Danon

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The decisions will not affect in the slightest our country's determination to continue hydrocarbon activities in the Eastern Mediterranean.

– The Turkish foreign ministry

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This right to life, this right to liberty, and this right to pursue one’s happiness is unabashedly individualistic, without in the slightest denying at the same time our thoroughly social nature. It’s only that our social relations, while vital to us all, must be chosen - that is what makes the crucial difference.

– Tibor R. Machan

added by anonymous
4 years ago

This is a genuine popular democratic uprising, it's not led by the United States. But we should not be saying things from Washington that create even the slightest impression to the contrary.

– Tom Malinowski

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach.

– Hugo Black

added by Normando
5 years ago

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