Claim Quotes
1458 Claim quotes by 1109 unique authors
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More than 10,000 athletes came to Atlanta seeking Olympic medals. Only a few of them will be lucky and skilled enough to claim one.
— Mary Lou Retton
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It's kind of dumb; everybody should be able to listen to the kind of music they want and just because you're a fan of a…
— Ray Toro
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The remarkable insights that science affords us into the intelligible workings of the world cry out for an explanation more profound than that which itself…
— John Polkinghorne
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Occam's razor suggests that, if some event is physically plausible, we don't need recourse to more extraordinary claims for its being. Surely the requirement of…
— Lawrence M. Krauss
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Either human intelligence ultimately owes its origin to mindless matter; or there is a Creator. It is strange that some people claim that it is…
— John Lennox
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And let no one suppose that I claim that just living can be taught for, in a word, I hold that there does not exist…
— Isocrates
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There can be no such things as an Irish nationalist accepting the loyalist veto and partition. You cannot claim to be an Irish nationalist if…
— Gerry Adams
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Claim your divine, glorious selfhood. Think it, talk it, live it and it will demonstrate itself in your life.
— Emmet Fox
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I do not claim any of the creation of the blues, although I have written many of them even before Mr. Handy had any blues…
— Jelly Roll Morton
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My father has always prayed that his words would reflect God's standard of truth as the basis to claim, 'I have given them Your word'…
— Franklin Graham
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The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness.
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.
— J L Austin
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Each day, focus your attention on what you want. Each day, take one step that will bring you closer to it. ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE!…
— Iyanla Vanzant
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Cinema is consistently making a claim to particular memories, histories, ways of life, identities, and values that always presuppose some notion of difference, community, and…
— Henry Giroux
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What distinguishes genocide from murder, and even from acts of political murder that claim as many victims, is the intent. The crime is wanting to…
— Philip Gourevitch
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The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the…
— Gary Lucas
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Today I personally believe that while Jesus came to open the door to God's house, all human beings can walk through that door, whether they…
— Henri Nouwen
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It takes a fierce devotion to defend your artistic space, and eternal vigilance over it, because the needs of others will grow like vines in…
— Unknown Author
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People who claim to be Christians while their lives look no different from the rest of the world are clearly not Christians
— David Platt
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A state attacked by another which renews an old claim rarely yields it without a war: it prefers to defend its territory, as is always…
— Antoine-Henri Jomini
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Income and inheritance taxes imply the denial of private property, and in that are different in principle from all other taxes. The government says to…
— Frank Chodorov
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Because remote viewing is such an outlandish claim that will revolutionise the world, we need overwhelming evidence before we draw any conclusions. Right now we…
— Richard Wiseman
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Jesus said whatever you do to the least of these my brothers you've done it to me. And this is what I've come to think.…
— Rich Mullins
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Market bashers ... might understand the claim that in some particular field, markets required no intervention--though they'd be skeptical--but the notion that, on general principle,…
— Julian Sanchez
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There is one great advantage to being an academic economist in France: here, economists are not highly respected in the academic and intellectual world or…
— Thomas Piketty
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