Claims Quotes - Page 13

• I don't regard the real and true and authentic as something to claim as a moral high ground.

  Rachel Kushner

  Real, Moral High Ground, Regard

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have never wanted to claim I know what is best for Israel.

  Jill Soloway

  Israel, Wanted, Knows

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Everyone has an opinion. That's just a crazy part of this world now. You can type things on the internet. You can have no credentials in any area and just get on your smart phone and write whatever you want. I know where I come from and where I want to go. I know I'm 100% ready. Everyone else seems to have an opinion, and claim to know, whether I am or I'm not. I would love to see all the people who run their mouths try and do what I do. Because they can't.

  Roman Reigns

  Running, Crazy, Smart

  Source: www.ign.com

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• Never claim credit for anything. 'Cause you can't righteously do that. There's luck and grace and accident.

  Harrison Ford

  Grace, Luck, Credit

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• Collectivism takes on many guises and seldom uses its own real name. Words like 'community' and 'social' soothe us into thinking that collectivist decision-making is somehow higher and nobler than individual or 'selfish' decision-making. But the cold fact is that communities do not make decisions. Individuals who claim to speak for the community impose their decisions on us all.

  Doug Bandow

  Real, Selfish, Thinking

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• I'm starting to like muggers more than congressmen. At least the muggers don't claim they're doing you a favor.

  Paul Jacob

  Doing You, Muggers, Favors

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• It's often the case that when a critic uses an embarrassingly accurate term to describe what a wrong-doer is doing, the wrong-doer protests: "Why don't you use my white-washed, conscience-soothing euphemism?" Such euphemisms, they claim, help promote "civilized debate."

  Steve Kangas

  White, Use, Doers

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• Some members of Congress will claim that the federal government needs the power to monitor Americans in order to allow the government to operate more efficiently. I would remind my colleagues that, in a constitutional republic, the people are never asked to sacrifice their liberties to make the jobs of government officials easier.

  Ron Paul

  Jobs, Sacrifice, Government

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• Success and social promotion are not some right that anybody can claim after queuing at some [government office]. It is better: it is a right, a right that one can merit because of one's sweat.

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  Government, Sweat, Office

  Summer meeting of the Young Populars in La Baule, September 04, 2005.

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• Faith is making claims to victory before it is achieved.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Victory

  Robert H. Schuller (1988). “Living Positively One Day at a Time”, Berkley

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• So immense are the claims on a mother, physical claims on her bodily and brain vigor, and moral claims on her heart and thoughts, that she cannot ... meet them all and find any large margin beyond for other cares and work. She serves the community in the very best and highest way it is possible to do, by giving birth to healthy children, whose physical strength has not been defrauded, and to whose moral and mental nature she can give the whole of her thoughts.

  Frances Power Cobbe

  Mother, Children, Heart

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• Different groups are differentially vulnerable to advertising; and their vulnerability varies not so much with the character or quantity of advertisements as with the informational resources they can claim by age, education, station in life, and government guarantees of consumer protection.

  Michael Schudson

  Character, Government, Age

  Michael Schudson (2013). “Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society”, p.16, Routledge

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• An important distinction can be made between religion and spirituality. Religion [is] concerned with faith in the claims to salvation of one faith tradition... Spirituality is concerned with qualities of the human spirit, love and compassion, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, contentment, a sense of responsibility, a sense of harmony, that bring happiness both to self.

  Dalai Lama

  Responsibility, Compassion, Self

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• Do not look back to the past, nor forward to the future. Claim only the present, for it holds God's will.

  Rose Philippine Duchesne

  Past, Looks, God's Will

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• One who lays claim to special privilege through the priesthood doesn't understand the nature of his authority.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Special, Privilege, Authority

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• When your claim to be victims of secularism rests on Wal-Mart greeters wishing shoppers Happy Holidays, you are clearly a bunch of great big babies.

  Katha Pollitt

  Baby, Holiday, Wish

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• When I need journalistic honesty, I have to turn to Al Jazeera, why is that? One cannot even deny the Holocaust in Europe, question 9/11 in America (unless you want the Ward Churchill treatment), but the West claims they're all about free speech.

  Remi Kanazi

  Honesty, America, Europe

  "What Would Jesus Do?". www.informationclearinghouse.info. February 4, 2006.

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• I have fantasies of burning down an insurance company just so THEY have to make a claim.

  Alonzo Bodden

  Burning Down, Fantasy, Insurance Companies

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• The theory that the biosphere was created without evolution, a few thousand years ago, is ruled out by overwhelming scientific evidence. To claim that there are 'alternative (always better) Biblical explanations of the same data', which make creationism a reasonable alternative to our best theories of biology and physics, is appalling intellectual dishonesty.

  David Deutsch

  Biblical, Years, Data

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• The claims made about Iraq's WMD capabilities before the invasion were inaccurate, wrong, and in some cases, deliberately misleading.

  Colin Powell

  Wmd, Iraq, Invasion

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• None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.

  Albert Camus

  Evil, Remedy, Totalitarianism

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• Atheism is the absence of a belief in a god, nothing more. If the theist wishes to draw monumental implications from this lack of belief, he must argue for his claims.

  George H. Smith

  Wish, Atheism, Belief

  George H. Smith (2016). “Atheism: The Case Against God”, p.33, Prometheus Books

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• If I had to catalog all the moronic plot turns in The Day After Tomorrow, we'd be here until the next ice age. It's just so very bad. You can have a pretty good time snickering at it-unless, like me, you think there's something to this global warming thing, and you shudder at the irony of a movie meant to warn people about a dangerous environmental trend that completely discredits it. Is it possible that the film is a plot to make environmental activists look as wacko as anti-environmentalists always claim they are?

  David Edelstein

  Thinking, Ice, People

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• As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn't running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.

  Dallas Willard

  Running, Pride, Doe

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