Claim Quotes
1458 Claim quotes by 1109 unique authors
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This body is yours. No one can ever take it from you, if only you will accept yourself, claim it again--your arms, your spine, your…
— Jean Hegland
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Far too long, historians have accepted the claim that the conversion of the Emperor Constantine (ca. 285-337) caused the triumph of Christianity. To the contrary,…
— Rodney Stark
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As for the accusation of intellectual pride, surely the boot is on the other foot. Atheists don't claim to know anything with certainty -- it's…
— Barbara Smoker
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There are different versions of Islam... it is meaningless to claim to speak in the name of a ‘real’ Islam.
— Tariq Ali
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Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Religious people claim that it's just the fundamentalists of each religion that cause problems. But there's got to be something wrong with the religion itself…
— David G. McAfee
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I don’t claim to know an over-arching ‘Meaning of Life,’ but I do operate under the understanding that life should not be lived under the…
— David G. McAfee
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If grownups want to dress in Tudor costume, douse babies in water, intone over the dead and do strange things with wine and wafers, it…
— Simon Jenkins
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The Arts and Sciences, essential to the prosperity of the State and to the ornament of human life, have a primary claim to the encouragement…
— George Washington
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If a claim is worth making, make it in the most specific way
— Claude C. Hopkins
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Whatever claim you use to get attention, the advertisement should tell a story reasonably complete
— Claude C. Hopkins
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Conviction is a force multiplier. If you want something, claim it in your gut. The universe itself responds to your inner certainty.
— Marianne Williamson
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MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim to admittance into the best criminal society.
— Ambrose Bierce
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When good thing are accomplished, it does not claim (or name) them. This is Te, which is close in meaning to power or virtue. It…
— Laozi
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We will not be derailed by criminal anarchists who legitimately claim a religious cause.
— John F. Kerry
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Spirituality brings a class of men who lay exclusive claim to the special powers of the world. The immediate effect of this is a reaction…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Rugby football is a game I can't claim absolutely to understand in all its niceties, if you know what I mean. I can follow the…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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One of the unique aspects of rowing is that novices strive to perfect the same motions as Olympic contenders. Few other sports can make this…
— Brad Alan Lewis
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Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in…
— Simone Weil
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Just think, that man can claim a slice of the sun.
— Louis Kahn
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The great Tao flows everywhere. All things are born from it, yet it doesn't create them. It pours itself into its work, yet it makes…
— Laozi
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The technologists claim that if everything works [in a nuclear fission reactor] according to their blueprints, fission energy will be a safe and very attractive…
— Hannes Alfven
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The report begins by asserting that it is a 'comprehensive' look at Benghazi resulting from an intensive investigation of nearly two years. Neither claim is…
— Stephen F. Hayes
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Remember, life is for living and learning. So listen to your life and the lessons it offers. What choices must you make this day to…
— Susan L. Taylor
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I am tired of the misrepresentation, calumny and detraction, heaped upon me by wicked men; and desire and claim, only those principles guaranteed to all…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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