Claim Quotes
1458 Claim quotes by 1109 unique authors
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What can God do for a liar who refuses to repent? Can the Lord save him? He can’t claim salvation. Baptizing him in water will…
— J. Golden Kimball
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Through luminous and erudite readings of the texts, Hasana Sharp shows us how profound and radical is Spinoza's conception of nature and his claim that…
— Michael Hardt
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But can we please stop insisting that if low-wage workers earn a little bit more, unemployment will skyrocket and the economy will collapse? There is…
— Nick Hanauer
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Workaholics don't actually accomplish more than nonworkaholics. They may claim to be perfectionists, but that just mean they're wasting time fixating on inconsequential details instead…
— David Heinemeier Hansson
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Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course, sprains and cuts…
— Patrick MacGill
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All human populations are in some sense immigrants. All hostility between different cultures in one place has an aspect of the classic immigrant grudge against…
— Neal Ascherson
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The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism is repulsive to…
— Joseph Conrad
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The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often…
— Rebecca West
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Even though Hubbard is dead, his business still repeats his lies, ... and in my opinion the proposed Act should also punish businesses and organizations…
— David Rice
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When you make the claim that something on the Internet is going to be good for democracy, you often [hear], 'Are you talking about the…
— Clay Shirky
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There are many people who claim to be good cooks; just as there are many people who, after having repainted the garden gate take themselves…
— Fernand Point
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There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.
— Paul Eldridge
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If an aircraft is able to fly day and night without fuel, propelled only by solar energy, let no one claim that it is impossible…
— Bertrand Piccard
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I'm certainly not a practicing Jew. I would never claim, 'I'm Jewish.' That's not the first and foremost thing in my mind, as far as…
— Scott Ian
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God is light, we are told, and Hell is outer darkness. But look at a desert mountain stripped bare by the sun, and you learn…
— Colin Fletcher
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The institutions that claim to represent God, when they are not ignored altogether, are treated like other human institutions that have to earn their right…
— Richard Holloway
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A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his viewpoint.
— Ambeth R. Ocampo
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I once heard someone say that prayer is more than words. It's a stance you take, a position you claim. You throw your body against…
— Regina Brett
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If your fundamental is a man dying on the cross for his enemies, if the very heart of your self-image and your religion is a…
— Timothy Keller
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If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then…
— Thomas Bulfinch
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Why extremists always focus on women remains a mystery to me. But they all seem to. It doesn’t matter what country they’re in or what…
— Hillary Clinton
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No one is infallible, and no one can claim a monopoly on truth or virtue. It would be contradictory for skepticism to seek to translate…
— Paul Kurtz
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If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.
— Morris Raphael Cohen
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My teaching, if that is the word you want to use, has no copyright. You are free to reproduce, distribute, interpret, misinterpret, distort, garble, do…
— U.G. Krishnamurti
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