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• The reason we avoid the word 'synergy' is because people generally claim more synergistic benefits than will come. Yes, it exists, but there are so many false promises.Berkshire is full of synergies - we don't avoid synergies, just claims of synergies.

  Charlie Munger

  People, Promise, Benefits

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• So bitcoin gives us an opportunity to reclaim the power of the people to say yes or no to what the government claims that it wants to do.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Opportunity, Government, People

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• When one turns from reason to faith, when one rejects the absolutism of reality, one undercuts the absolutism of one's consciousness - and one's mind becomes an organ one cannot trust any longer. It becomes what the mystics claim it to be: a tool of distortion.

  Ayn Rand

  Reality, Mind, Absolutism

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.35, Penguin

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• To design an easy-to-use interface, pay attention to what users do, not what they say. Self-reported claims are unreliable, as are user speculations about future behavior.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Self, Design, Pay

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• And whilst he may not claim superiority by reason of learning, I myself must not withold that meed of homage that learning, wherever it resides, always commands.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  May, Reason, Command

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.209, Penguin Books India

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• When governments claim to derive their authority from any source other than the governed, it always leads to the destruction of liberty.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Government, Liberty, Authority

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• As places of learning, schools have a responsibility to also educate on nutrition, which we all can agree is far more important than algebra, no matter what your third-period teacher claims.

  Lynda Resnick

  Teacher, Responsibility, School

  "Bringing the Food Revolution to Our Schools". Interview with Lynda Resnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.

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• Men in prison are "civilly dead" and have no claim to any say in policy.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Prison, Policy

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• But what, after all, is faith? It is a state of mind that leads people to believe something - it doesn't matter what - in the total absence of supporting evidence. If there were good supporting evidence then faith would be superfluous, for the evidence would compel us to believe it anyway. It is this that makes the often-parroted claim that 'evolution itself is a matter of faith' so silly. People believe in evolution not because they arbitrarily want to believe it but because of overwhelming, publicly available evidence.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Silly, People

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• And speaking of sex, the Immaculate Conception does not mean Jesus was conceived in the absence of sex. It means Mary was conceived without Original Sin. That's all it has ever meant. And according to the tabloids, Mary is apparently the only one who can make such a claim. The Jesus thing is called virgin birth.

  George Carlin

  Jesus, Sex, Mean

  George Carlin (2007). “The Best of Brain Droppings”, p.62, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• The Taliban has asked Osama bin Laden to voluntarily leave the country.They said they delivered him a note asking him to leave, which is a pretty goodtrick considering they claim they don't even know where he is.

  Jay Leno

  Country, Asking, Osama Bin Laden

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• "The people" aren't running anything. That's why technology has replaced politics as the source of ideology. The ideological claims are hollow and absurd, and nobody believes them anymore.

  John Zerzan

  Running, Believe, Technology

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• For us, time travel is synonymous for the belief in all the things that are not seen, and also for the most outlandish claim that you could possibly make. To say that you're a time traveler is weirder than saying you're an alien. It's really strange to sit down in a basement and be face-to-face with someone who claims to be a real time traveler. So, for us, it was about the nuts and bolts of what it would be like, if you were face-to-face with someone who claimed to be from the future.

  Zal Batmanglij

  Real, Nuts, Would Be

  Source: collider.com

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• It took me quite a long time to realise that my maleness was cutting off certain areas for Yoko [Ono]. She's a red hot liberationistand was quick to show me where I was going wrong, even though it seemed to me that I was just acting naturally. That's why I'm always interested to know how people who claim to be radical treat women.

  John Lennon

  Cutting, Long, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The instructor has to teach history, cosmogony, psychology, ethics, the laws of nations. How can he do it without saying anything favorable or unfavorable about the beliefs of evangelical Christians, Catholics, Socinians, Deists, pantheists, materialists, or fetish worshipers, who all claim equal rights under American institutions? His teaching will indeed be "the play of Hamlet, with the part of Hamlet omitted."

  Robert Dabney

  Christian, Teaching, Law

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• The claim that somehow raw foods give you better energy, are more healthful, improve your immune system and all of that is simply not substantiated. And moreover, it's not biologically plausible.

  Dennis Miller

  Giving, Energy, Immune System

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• Iraqi's minister of information did not show up for his press conference today. However, he claims he was there and he said it went very well.

  David Letterman

  Information, Today, Ministers

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• Orthodox Jews, or, as they are known in the Talmud, the Really Chosen Ones, are committed to the idea that the entire Torah was dictated by God verbatim to Moses at Mount Sinai... Other forms of Judaism dispute this claim, although it does explain certain passages in the first Torah, such as, I'm sorry, am I boring you? and What do you like better, Moses, Lord Almighty or Big Hoohah?

  Jon Stewart

  Sorry, Ideas, Doe

  "Naked Pictures of Famous People". Book by Jon Stewart, 1998.

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• I won't claim the workhouses didn't have their problems, but they were set up by people who cared.

  Edwina Currie

  People, Poverty, Problem

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• Anyone believing the TPP is good for Americans take note: The foreign subsidiaries of U.S.-based corporations could just as easily challenge any U.S. government regulation they claim unfairly diminishes their profits - say, a regulation protecting American consumers from unsafe products or unhealthy foods, investors from fraudulent securities or predatory lending, workers from unsafe working conditions, taxpayers from another bailout of Wall Street, or the environment from toxic emissions.

  Robert Reich

  Wall, Believe, Government

  "Why the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Is a Pending Disaster" by Robert Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 6, 2015.

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• Any claims on the truth in my pictures are only to be answered in the sense that a particular event did in fact happen and did take place in the here and now.

  Andreas Gursky

  Events, Facts, Here And Now

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• Now the cigarette companies claim that they don't do that [ pay to have their product advertised in movies ] anymore, although it certainly makes you wonder a bit when an independent production like "In The Bedroom", you know, seems to focus constantly on Marlboros and almost it turns into a Marlboro ad, whether there was any money exchanged.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Independent, Focus, Pay

  Interview with Dominic Bellone, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• We all claim to worship the same God, so why don't we fellowship together? ... The only thing that keeps us from fellowshiping together are the church buildings, the organizations.

  Donnie McClurkin

  Organization, Church, Together

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• I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history.

  Eleanor Antin

  Photography, Dubious, Fiction

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• The main difference seems to be that, whereas photography still claims some sort of objectivity, digital imaging is an overtly fictional process. As a practice that is known to be capable of nothing but fabrication, digitization abandons even the rhetoric of truth that has been such an important part of photography's cultural success.

  Geoffrey Batchen

  Photography, Objectivity, Practice

  Geoffrey Batchen (2002). “Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History”, p.134, MIT Press

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