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Social media companies have stumbled onto a stubborn, devastating fact, the way to get kids to linger on the platforms and to maximize profit is to upset them — to make them outraged, to make them agitated, to make them scared, to make them vulnerable, to make them feel helpless, anxious [and] despondent. – Brian Schatz	Found on CNN 1 year ago
During this period, whatever we touched seemed to go straight into the Top 10, it was as if we stumbled onto the best door on' The Price Is Right,' where the prizes just keep on coming and coming ! The hits went on and on. Many of our songs have turned into beloved songs of the American Songbook. – Lamont Dozier	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I just stumbled on it, a lot of times, people will give me a heads-up [about places to ride through]. I didn’t get a single message about Pella, so that was interesting. – Bob Barnes	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
[ I ] kind of stumbled into it as a hobby, and now I just do it for fun. – David Solomon	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It’s pretty wild, ain’t it? You have another bowhunter looking for a shortcut who stumbled upon a bowhunter from 53 years ago. – Sheriff Steve Penner	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We stumbled into this thing completely by accident because what we saw was everything was pretty stable until about 20 million years when sharks dropped off in abundance by over 90 %, we found that sharks were doing incredibly well in the open ocean until this one moment in time when they virtually disappeared. We had no idea because no one had ever looked. – Elizabeth Sibert	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Two guys broke into the dealership, smashed through a glass, went through desk, grabbed keys and go out to the lot and start seeing which key works, and the key that they stumbled upon was my key. – Terrence Ross	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Indeed, we had started negotiations with our Spanish-Chinese friends that were more or less similar. But they stumbled on financial issues. – Executive Maxime Saada	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I was living in pleasure... Till I stumbled upon some peace. And then my Master questioned... And a little did he tease: Are you just living to die? Or will you go on a quest to find out ‘Who am I?’ – AiR	added by AIR 5 years ago
What we have really, truly seen, to an extraordinary extent, is that Trump himself and President Donald Trump Cabinet have stumbled over these rules. – Norm Eisen	Found on CNN 5 years ago
... After I stumbled through that disaster, I figured the damage was done, so I might as well continue the performance. I do n’t lead cavalry charges down Pennsylvania Avenue, but I ’ll make comments. And with the president we’ve got now, how can you not comment on this evil ? It’s an unbelievable aberration. And it’s not because of him, it’s what he represents that enormous core of self-seeking, discriminating, angry, racist people in the United States. – Ed Asner	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I started really hot and then I kind of stumbled a little bit, so my goal was to finish strong, and I did that. – Gonzalez Escallon	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
We were cautiously constructive( in March), worried about the political process, but hoping that it would move forward, and indeed we've stumbled forward on the right path. – Michael Reynal	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
there has never been a moment in one's life when one might not have stumbled upon this strange reality: what am I doing, where am I so hurriedly running, what is my objective, this whole world is a rat race and I'm going no where, with out any goal, isn't it?. this thought comes to me very often. alas! what to do, don't know what and where to knock the door and experience reality. no sooner that I try, I'm again fallen into the dismal depths of abyss, into the worldly affairs” – Ramana Pemmaraju	added by anonymous 8 years ago
I felt like I had stumbled onto a breaking news scene. – Greta Rybus	Found on CNN 8 years ago
No candidate has really stumbled yet, but I would have to say that Jeb Bush's appearance on the debut of ‘Colbert’ was a missed opportunity, he seemed stuck a bit too much in ‘campaign’ mode and probably could have taken more opportunities at humor, like when Colbert made fun of the exclamation point on his logo. – Ted Johnson	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The boy was probably too concentrated in listening to what the guide was saying, and therefore stumbled. – Sun Chi-hsuan	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I somehow stumbled through and became a governor, i’ve told you that story. It was all luck. Luck and nothing else. – Andrew Cuomo	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I somehow stumbled through and became a governor, i’ve told you that story. It was all luck. Luck and nothing else. – Chris Cuomo	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. – Teddy Roosevelt	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy course; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat. – Theodore Roosevelt, Paris, Sorbonne 1910	added by anonymous 13 years ago

Social media companies have stumbled onto a stubborn, devastating fact, the way to get kids to linger on the platforms and to maximize profit is to upset them — to make them outraged, to make them agitated, to make them scared, to make them vulnerable, to make them feel helpless, anxious [and] despondent.

– Brian Schatz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

During this period, whatever we touched seemed to go straight into the Top 10, it was as if we stumbled onto the best door on' The Price Is Right,' where the prizes just keep on coming and coming ! The hits went on and on. Many of our songs have turned into beloved songs of the American Songbook.

– Lamont Dozier

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I just stumbled on it, a lot of times, people will give me a heads-up [about places to ride through]. I didn’t get a single message about Pella, so that was interesting.

– Bob Barnes

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

[ I ] kind of stumbled into it as a hobby, and now I just do it for fun.

– David Solomon

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It’s pretty wild, ain’t it? You have another bowhunter looking for a shortcut who stumbled upon a bowhunter from 53 years ago.

– Sheriff Steve Penner

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We stumbled into this thing completely by accident because what we saw was everything was pretty stable until about 20 million years when sharks dropped off in abundance by over 90 %, we found that sharks were doing incredibly well in the open ocean until this one moment in time when they virtually disappeared. We had no idea because no one had ever looked.

– Elizabeth Sibert

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Two guys broke into the dealership, smashed through a glass, went through desk, grabbed keys and go out to the lot and start seeing which key works, and the key that they stumbled upon was my key.

– Terrence Ross

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Indeed, we had started negotiations with our Spanish-Chinese friends that were more or less similar. But they stumbled on financial issues.

– Executive Maxime Saada

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I was living in pleasure... Till I stumbled upon some peace. And then my Master questioned... And a little did he tease: Are you just living to die? Or will you go on a quest to find out ‘Who am I?’

– AiR

added by AIR
5 years ago

What we have really, truly seen, to an extraordinary extent, is that Trump himself and President Donald Trump Cabinet have stumbled over these rules.

– Norm Eisen

Found on CNN
5 years ago

... After I stumbled through that disaster, I figured the damage was done, so I might as well continue the performance. I do n’t lead cavalry charges down Pennsylvania Avenue, but I ’ll make comments. And with the president we’ve got now, how can you not comment on this evil ? It’s an unbelievable aberration. And it’s not because of him, it’s what he represents that enormous core of self-seeking, discriminating, angry, racist people in the United States.

– Ed Asner

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I started really hot and then I kind of stumbled a little bit, so my goal was to finish strong, and I did that.

– Gonzalez Escallon

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

We were cautiously constructive( in March), worried about the political process, but hoping that it would move forward, and indeed we've stumbled forward on the right path.

– Michael Reynal

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

there has never been a moment in one's life when one might not have stumbled upon this strange reality: what am I doing, where am I so hurriedly running, what is my objective, this whole world is a rat race and I'm going no where, with out any goal, isn't it?. this thought comes to me very often. alas! what to do, don't know what and where to knock the door and experience reality. no sooner that I try, I'm again fallen into the dismal depths of abyss, into the worldly affairs”

– Ramana Pemmaraju

added by anonymous
8 years ago

I felt like I had stumbled onto a breaking news scene.

– Greta Rybus

Found on CNN
8 years ago

No candidate has really stumbled yet, but I would have to say that Jeb Bush's appearance on the debut of ‘Colbert’ was a missed opportunity, he seemed stuck a bit too much in ‘campaign’ mode and probably could have taken more opportunities at humor, like when Colbert made fun of the exclamation point on his logo.

– Ted Johnson

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The boy was probably too concentrated in listening to what the guide was saying, and therefore stumbled.

– Sun Chi-hsuan

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I somehow stumbled through and became a governor, i’ve told you that story. It was all luck. Luck and nothing else.

– Andrew Cuomo

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I somehow stumbled through and became a governor, i’ve told you that story. It was all luck. Luck and nothing else.

– Chris Cuomo

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

– Teddy Roosevelt

added by anonymous
13 years ago

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy course; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.

– Theodore Roosevelt, Paris, Sorbonne 1910

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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