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I do not claim to have attained optimum emotional well-being. Actually, I think that may be a lifetime goal. For me it’s an ongoing process… — Andrew Weil
What can be considered human emotions? Surely not only lyricism, sadness, tragedy? Doesn't laughter also have a claim to that lofty title? I want to… — Dmitri Shostakovich
My only claim to fame, if I have one, is that I'm an editor. — Woody Herman
Sex as desired by the class that dominates women is held by that class to be elemental, urgent, necessary, even if or even though it… — Andrea Dworkin
We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. — Karl Popper
No one can dub you with dignity. That's yours to claim. — Odetta
As a man develops, he places a greater value upon his own rights. Liberty becomes a grander and diviner thing. As he values his own… — Robert Green Ingersoll
To be a Christian in a generously orthodox way is not to claim to have the truth captured, stuffed, and mounted on the wall — Brian D. McLaren
Ask me if Christianity (my version of it, yours, the Pope's, whoever's) is orthodox, meaning true, and here's my honest answer: a little, but not… — Brian D. McLaren
Someone once asked me why people sing. I answered that they sing for many of the same reasons the birds sing. They sing for a… — Linda Ronstadt
Is it permitted for Catholics to be present at, or to take part in, conventions, gatherings, meetings, or societies of non-Catholics which aim to associate… — Pope Pius X
You may have the administration of angels, you may see many miracles; . . . but I claim that the gift of the Holy Ghost… — Wilford Woodruff
The American Fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact.... They cultivate hate and distrust of both Britain and Russia.… — Henry A. Wallace
It is not for the concept, but for the experience, that we use the term the Beloved. The experience of this enormity we falteringly label… — Stephen Levine
If relativism signifies contempt for fixed categories and those who claim to be the bearers of objective immortal truth, then there is nothing more relativistic… — Benito Mussolini
Advertising is much less powerful than advertisers and critics of advertising claim, and advertising agencies are stabbing in the dark much more than they are… — Michael Schudson
The question before us is, whether people of African ancestry compose a portion of this people, and are constituent members of this sovereignty? We think… — Roger Brooke Taney
It is an occupational risk of biologists to claim, towards the end of their careers, that the problems which they have not solved are insoluble. — John Maynard Smith
The moral justification of capitalism does not lie in the altruist claim that it represents the best way to achieve 'the common good.' It is… — Ayn Rand
If WE claim only reasonable probability, it will be as much as men who love the truth can ever at any given moment hope to… — William James
So the good news is, if you're unemployed and you go to apply for a job and you're not hired for that job, see a… — Louie Gohmert
And what is the state but a servant and a convenience for a large number of people, just like the electric light and the plumbing… — Ayn Rand
A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, incompetence, suffering, disease,… — Ayn Rand
The fact that a man has no claim on others ... does not preclude or prohibit good will among men and does not make it… — Ayn Rand
The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false… — Norbert Wiener

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