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What I'm seeing is, frankly, a return to basics, a return to academic growth and achievement as the benchmarks, and frankly, I think we're trying to – and this is as a board as well – get rid of some of the other distractions which aren’t core academic pursuits. – Mike Peterson	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Let me be clear, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is a corrupt jurist and should have no place on our highest court, clarence Thomas for the past three decades worked in tandem with his wife from the bench, to decide cases that were in lockstep with his wife's political pursuits. – Ilhan Omar	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Deciding to initiate or continue a Foot Pursuit is a decision that a Department member must make quickly and under unpredictable and dynamic circumstances. It is recognized that Foot Pursuits may place Department members and the public at significant risk. there's so much weaselly language about how officers should you know, consider the totality of the circumstances or consider alternatives to chasing people, but there aren't enough black and white rules that officers must follow. – Alexandra Block	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Several administrations in succession in the United States have tried this effort to launch more fundamental efforts, policies, frameworks in Asia, East Asia, Indo-Pacific, and found themselves stymied, or misdirected, or directed towards other pursuits, and that has been something that I think all of us are deeply aware of in the formulation and execution of policy. – Kurt Campbell	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It's not only a ban, but it's a ban where the department can pretend with a semi-straight face that they're not banning foot pursuits, it's a ban because it says two things : You can never get in trouble for not doing it and you might get in trouble for doing it. – Peter Moskos	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Foot pursuits put everyone involved at risk, the officers, the person being pursued and bystanders, we have to do better, and I charge the superintendent with bringing to me a policy that recognizes how dangerous this is. We can't afford to lose more lives. – Lori Lightfoot	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It will be difficult to not give hugs to family and friends after being up here for seven months, i think I will feel more isolated on Baby YodaOn Earth than here because Baby YodaOn Earth's expected up here. We're busy with amazing pursuits and tasks and don't feel the isolation. But it will be wonderful to see family and friends virtually and at a distance. – Jessica Meir	Found on CNN 3 years ago
At times, we become aggressive and we start demanding more excessive, but the fulfillment of those pursuits are not always possible at the same pace, which results towards non-fulfillment and incomplete quest. Following this, it many a times burst you into anger. On the other hand, if instead of showing anger, once you start digging into the entire scenario to understand the reason for this incomplete quest, and resolving the matter with the utmost patience in you, then the results will entirely be different and your level of fulfillment will be much higher. – Prashant Agarwal	added by prashantagarwal 4 years ago
It seems like the right moment for me to focus on my current business and philanthropic pursuits, i'm proud of all that Uber has achieved, and I will continue to cheer for its future from the sidelines. – Travis Kalanick	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It has the ability to control the flows in the Aegean. It can not give the impression that it is exploiting this issue for its own geopolitical pursuits. – Kyriakos Mitsotakis	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
...Enlightened by a benign religion, professed, indeed, and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man, acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here and his greater happiness hereafter - with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people? Still one thing more... a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities. – Thomas Jefferson	added by Normando 5 years ago
Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have lived have forced me to commit myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions. – Thomas Jefferson	added by Normando 5 years ago
A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement. – Thomas Jefferson	added by Normando 5 years ago
At the heart of the struggle of women, people of color, the disabled, the poor, organized workers, immigrants, religious minorities, atheists,and sexual minorities is the radical belief that we are all created equal and deserve the right to life, liberty and pursuits of happiness. – Oscar Auliq-Ice	added by Auliq-Ice 6 years ago
Diana Birch went to hospital for corrective surgery and left with a life-changing injury from which Diana Birch will never recover, diana Birch led an incredibly full and active life prior to Diana Birch injury ; setting up addiction treatment and rehabilitation units in Afghanistan, hiking, dancing and training in Judo among other pastimes and pursuits. – Louis Forsyth	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Internationally the childcare environment is predominantly a sedentary and obesogenic one, it’s important that we explore mechanisms to enhance the supportiveness and conduciveness of the childcare environment as it relates to physical activity, in addition to limiting the opportunities available to the children to engage in sedentary pursuits. – Leigh Vanderloo	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Without anywhere, anytime surprise inspections, a full accounting of Iran's past secret nuclear arms pursuits, elimination of Iran's uranium stockpiles and the lifting of any sanctions only upon verification of Iranian compliance (means) this is not a good deal, but a recipe for disaster and the first fateful step toward a frenzied nuclear arms race in the Middle East. – Ben Carson	Found on CNN 9 years ago
In the 1800s, 90 percent of us were just farming. Today it’s 2 percent of us. What happened to the other 88 percent? Technology came and gave us wings, ‘Smart’ has become so abused a term. It has become more of a marketing ploy. But true ‘smart’ technology—a true cognitive agent—will almost force man to say, ‘Lift up your game.’ Because the commonplace, mundane chores that were abusing your intellectual capabilities are no longer there. Descartes’ classic ‘Je pense, donc je suis’—‘I think, therefore I am’—has never been more applicable to man’s pursuits. – Chetan Dube	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. – Thomas Aquinas	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The nearer society approaches to divine order, the less separation will there be in the characters, duties, and pursuits of men and women. Women will not become less gentle and graceful, but men will become more so. Women will not neglect the care and education of their children, but men will find themselves ennobled and refined by sharing those duties with them; and will receive, in return, co-operation and sympathy in the discharge of various other duties, now deemed inappropriate to women. The more women become rational companions, partners in business and in thought, as well as in affection and amusement, the more highly will men appreciate home. – Lydia Child	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Wars of extermination, engaged in by people pursuing commerce and all industrial pursuits, are expensive even against the weakest people, and are demoralizing and wicked. – Ulysses S. Grant	added by anonymous 11 years ago
I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits. – John Locke	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Excuse me, for I must speak plainly. If you, my dear father, will not take the trouble of checking her exuberant spirits, and of teaching her that her present pursuits are not to be the business of her life, she will soon be beyond the reach of amendment. Her character will be fixed, and she will, at sixteen, be the most determined flirt that ever made herself or her family ridiculous; a flirt, too, in the worst and meanest degree of flirtation; without any attraction beyond youth and a tolerable person; and, from the ignorance – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice	added by anonymous 11 years ago
It is impossible for those who are engaged in low and grovelling pursuits to entertain noble and generous sentiments. Their thoughts must always necessarily be somewhat similar to their employments. – Demosthenes	added by anonymous 13 years ago

What I'm seeing is, frankly, a return to basics, a return to academic growth and achievement as the benchmarks, and frankly, I think we're trying to – and this is as a board as well – get rid of some of the other distractions which aren’t core academic pursuits.

– Mike Peterson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Let me be clear, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is a corrupt jurist and should have no place on our highest court, clarence Thomas for the past three decades worked in tandem with his wife from the bench, to decide cases that were in lockstep with his wife's political pursuits.

– Ilhan Omar

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Deciding to initiate or continue a Foot Pursuit is a decision that a Department member must make quickly and under unpredictable and dynamic circumstances. It is recognized that Foot Pursuits may place Department members and the public at significant risk. there's so much weaselly language about how officers should you know, consider the totality of the circumstances or consider alternatives to chasing people, but there aren't enough black and white rules that officers must follow.

– Alexandra Block

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Several administrations in succession in the United States have tried this effort to launch more fundamental efforts, policies, frameworks in Asia, East Asia, Indo-Pacific, and found themselves stymied, or misdirected, or directed towards other pursuits, and that has been something that I think all of us are deeply aware of in the formulation and execution of policy.

– Kurt Campbell

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's not only a ban, but it's a ban where the department can pretend with a semi-straight face that they're not banning foot pursuits, it's a ban because it says two things : You can never get in trouble for not doing it and you might get in trouble for doing it.

– Peter Moskos

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Foot pursuits put everyone involved at risk, the officers, the person being pursued and bystanders, we have to do better, and I charge the superintendent with bringing to me a policy that recognizes how dangerous this is. We can't afford to lose more lives.

– Lori Lightfoot

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It will be difficult to not give hugs to family and friends after being up here for seven months, i think I will feel more isolated on Baby YodaOn Earth than here because Baby YodaOn Earth's expected up here. We're busy with amazing pursuits and tasks and don't feel the isolation. But it will be wonderful to see family and friends virtually and at a distance.

– Jessica Meir

Found on CNN
3 years ago

At times, we become aggressive and we start demanding more excessive, but the fulfillment of those pursuits are not always possible at the same pace, which results towards non-fulfillment and incomplete quest. Following this, it many a times burst you into anger. On the other hand, if instead of showing anger, once you start digging into the entire scenario to understand the reason for this incomplete quest, and resolving the matter with the utmost patience in you, then the results will entirely be different and your level of fulfillment will be much higher.

– Prashant Agarwal

added by prashantagarwal
4 years ago

It seems like the right moment for me to focus on my current business and philanthropic pursuits, i'm proud of all that Uber has achieved, and I will continue to cheer for its future from the sidelines.

– Travis Kalanick

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It has the ability to control the flows in the Aegean. It can not give the impression that it is exploiting this issue for its own geopolitical pursuits.

– Kyriakos Mitsotakis

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

...Enlightened by a benign religion, professed, indeed, and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man, acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here and his greater happiness hereafter - with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people? Still one thing more... a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.

– Thomas Jefferson

added by Normando
5 years ago

Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have lived have forced me to commit myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions.

– Thomas Jefferson

added by Normando
5 years ago

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement.

– Thomas Jefferson

added by Normando
5 years ago

At the heart of the struggle of women, people of color, the disabled, the poor, organized workers, immigrants, religious minorities, atheists,and sexual minorities is the radical belief that we are all created equal and deserve the right to life, liberty and pursuits of happiness.

– Oscar Auliq-Ice

added by Auliq-Ice
6 years ago

Diana Birch went to hospital for corrective surgery and left with a life-changing injury from which Diana Birch will never recover, diana Birch led an incredibly full and active life prior to Diana Birch injury ; setting up addiction treatment and rehabilitation units in Afghanistan, hiking, dancing and training in Judo among other pastimes and pursuits.

– Louis Forsyth

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Internationally the childcare environment is predominantly a sedentary and obesogenic one, it’s important that we explore mechanisms to enhance the supportiveness and conduciveness of the childcare environment as it relates to physical activity, in addition to limiting the opportunities available to the children to engage in sedentary pursuits.

– Leigh Vanderloo

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Without anywhere, anytime surprise inspections, a full accounting of Iran's past secret nuclear arms pursuits, elimination of Iran's uranium stockpiles and the lifting of any sanctions only upon verification of Iranian compliance (means) this is not a good deal, but a recipe for disaster and the first fateful step toward a frenzied nuclear arms race in the Middle East.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN
9 years ago

In the 1800s, 90 percent of us were just farming. Today it’s 2 percent of us. What happened to the other 88 percent? Technology came and gave us wings, ‘Smart’ has become so abused a term. It has become more of a marketing ploy. But true ‘smart’ technology—a true cognitive agent—will almost force man to say, ‘Lift up your game.’ Because the commonplace, mundane chores that were abusing your intellectual capabilities are no longer there. Descartes’ classic ‘Je pense, donc je suis’—‘I think, therefore I am’—has never been more applicable to man’s pursuits.

– Chetan Dube

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

– Thomas Aquinas

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The nearer society approaches to divine order, the less separation will there be in the characters, duties, and pursuits of men and women. Women will not become less gentle and graceful, but men will become more so. Women will not neglect the care and education of their children, but men will find themselves ennobled and refined by sharing those duties with them; and will receive, in return, co-operation and sympathy in the discharge of various other duties, now deemed inappropriate to women. The more women become rational companions, partners in business and in thought, as well as in affection and amusement, the more highly will men appreciate home.

– Lydia Child

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Wars of extermination, engaged in by people pursuing commerce and all industrial pursuits, are expensive even against the weakest people, and are demoralizing and wicked.

– Ulysses S. Grant

added by anonymous
11 years ago

I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.

– John Locke

added by anonymous
11 years ago

Excuse me, for I must speak plainly. If you, my dear father, will not take the trouble of checking her exuberant spirits, and of teaching her that her present pursuits are not to be the business of her life, she will soon be beyond the reach of amendment. Her character will be fixed, and she will, at sixteen, be the most determined flirt that ever made herself or her family ridiculous; a flirt, too, in the worst and meanest degree of flirtation; without any attraction beyond youth and a tolerable person; and, from the ignorance

– Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

added by anonymous
11 years ago

It is impossible for those who are engaged in low and grovelling pursuits to entertain noble and generous sentiments. Their thoughts must always necessarily be somewhat similar to their employments.

– Demosthenes

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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