Purport Quotes
28 quotes by 24 authors
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It's weird how people who are the least close to me or who've never even met me purport to be experts on the real me;…
— Vanna Bonta
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The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from…
— William J. Brennan
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Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand…
— Toni Morrison
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In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.
— Angela Carter
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Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand…
— Toni Morrison
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Within hours of a tragedy unfolding, journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence…
— Sarah Palin
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Governments and the military purport to protect the public from enemies, and if there were no enemies they would have to invent some, for the…
— Laurance Labadie
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Our constitutions purport to be established by 'the people,' and, in theory, 'all the people' consent to such government as the constitutions authorize. But this…
— Lysander Spooner
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Shamans can be defined as socially sanctioned practitioners who purport to voluntarily regulate their attention and awareness so as to access information not ordinarily available,…
— Stanley Krippner
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I think most memoirs, though they purport to be about this particular time or this person you met, are really about the effect that person…
— Rosemary Mahoney
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There are people who say, 'Oh every time Catholics make the sign of the cross they re-crucify Christ.' Look, that's what comes under the theological…
— John Corapi
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Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve.
— Brit Hume
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One does not have to be a 'climate change denier' to see that a degree of skepticism about the present consensus might be in order....Most…
— Colin Robinson
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Human myopia cannot be overcome simply by well-meaning attempts to build [climate] models that purport to peer decades and centuries ahead. Action taken now, in…
— Colin Robinson
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The Constitution has no inherent authority or obligation. It has no authority or obligation at all, unless as a contract between man and man. And…
— Lysander Spooner
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Freedom is the one purport, wisely aimed at, or unwisely, of all man's struggles, toilings and sufferings, in this earth.
— Thomas Carlyle
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A curious thing about atrocity stories is that they mirror, instead of the events they purport to describe, the extent of the hatred of the…
— John Dos Passos
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Should a priest reject relativity because it contains no authoritative exposition on the doctrine of the Trinity? Once you realize that the Bible does not…
— Georges Lemaitre
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Where do you get the gall to call the people who died in 9/11 technocrats when you sit around and get a $90,000 paycheck from…
— Ward Churchill
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We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don't purport that what we do is real science but we're demonstrating a…
— Adam Savage
Who Wrote These Purport Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 28 Purport Quotes as follows: