Claims Quotes - Page 18

• What's doubly, possibly triply weird about the [Donald] Trump claim is that I said something really hateful and offended an entire class of people, and in a case that actually has nothing to do with race he should still be conflicted out.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Race, Class, People

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Ironically enough, if the case involves race, and one claims that race is a disqualifying factor, nobody could hear the case. Everybody comes to these cases with some preconceptions, and the premise of our judicial system is that judges by training and by ethical codes are obligated to set those prejudices aside and to decide on the facts and the law. And to claim that somebody can't simply because of their racial identity is deeply offensive.

  Deborah Rhode

  Race, Law, Judging

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". Interview with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• There is now a patent restricting the use of an herb called philantis neruri for curing jaundice. An even more blatant example is the use of turmeric for healing wounds, which is something every mother and grandmother does in every home in India. Now the Mississippi Medical Center claims to have "invented" the capacity of turmeric to heal wounds.

  Vandana Shiva

  Mother, Healing, Home

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I have called this phenomenon of stealing common knowledge and indigenous science "biopiracy" and "intellectual piracy." According to patent systems we shouldn't be able to patent what exists as "prior art." But the United States patent system is somewhat perverted. First of all, it does not treat the prior art of other societies as "prior art." Therefore anyone from the United States can travel to another country, find out about the use of a medicinal plant, or find a seed that farmers use, come back here, claim it as an invention or an innovation.

  Vandana Shiva

  Country, Art, Innovation

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• In order for the second scenario to win, the world would have to return where the struggle for independence and against Western colonialism and imperialism was lost or abandoned more than 50 years ago. Let's face it: the world was never really completely de-colonized. It would be total hypocrisy to claim otherwise.

  Andre Vltchek

  Struggle, Winning, Order

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I will continue - as Labour Leader - to pursue the causes of peace and justice in Israel-Palestine, the wider Middle East and all over the world. But those who claim to do so with hateful or inflammatory language do no service to anyone, especially dispossessed and oppressed people in need of better advocacy.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Israel, People, Justice

  "Jeremy Corbyn antisemitism speech in full: Labour leader vows to stamp out 'hateful language or debate' The Labour leader welcomed a response recommending immediate action for the Labour" by Lizzie Dearden, www.independent.co.uk. June 30, 2016.

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• Christians, and some Jews, claim we're in the "end times," but they've been saying this off and on for more than two thousand years.

  Tom Robbins

  Christian, Two, Years

  "Revisiting) The Syntax of Sorcery: An Interview with Tom Robbins". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. April 19, 2010.

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• The hallmark of religion is to distrust claims made for mortal men. It is in ages of great religious faith that great skepticism can find expression.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Religious, Men, Expression

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• She [Justice sandra Day O'Connor] rejected the [George] Bush administration's claim that it could indefinitely detain a United States citizen. She upheld the fundamental principle of judicial review over the exercise of government power.

  Patrick Leahy

  Exercise, Government, Justice

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• In an era when too many Americans are losing their jobs or working for less, trying to make ends meet, in close cases Judge [Samuel] Alito has ruled the vast majority of the time against the claims of the individual citizens. He has acted instead in favor of government, large corporations and other powerful interests.

  Edward Kennedy

  Jobs, Powerful, Government

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Today much of anti-biofuel "science" - including the false claim that biofuels need more energy to make than they contain - has been shown to be complete hogwash, bought and paid for by big oil.

  Josh Tickell

  Oil, Today, Energy

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• We need to claim our power for something beautiful, something harmonious and something globally healthy.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Beautiful, Healthy, Needs

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 4, 2013.

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• I never paid attention when people said, "That's gotta be poetry. That's gotta be fiction," except when I was in a graduate program, and you had to claim your genre.

  Sandra Cisneros

  People, Attention, Fiction

  "Talking in Our Pajamas". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. Summer, 2008.

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• Usually if someone starts making universal claims, I tune right on out.

  Greg Saunier

  Tunes, Universal, Ifs

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• Not all Scripture is propositional, some of it is asking questions, some of it's rhetorical, but where Scripture is stating something, asserting something, making a truth claim, uttering a proposition that is claiming to be true, it is the truth.

  D. A. Carson

  Asking Questions, Scripture, Being True

  Source: www.booksataglance.com

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• Part of my claim to fame is that my first film was also Johnny Cash's first film.

  Keith Carradine

  Cash, Firsts, Film

  "Keith Carradine on 'Deadwood,' 'Fargo,' and Madonna". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2016.

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• Today House Republicans are doing what they always do - using taxpayers' money to continue investigating claims that have already been debunked just to keep them in the headlines one more day.

  Elijah Cummings

  House, Today, Republican

  "FBI Director Faces Congress Over Hillary Clinton Email Investigation". "All Things Considered" with Carrie Johnson, www.npr.org. July 7, 2016.

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• I love writing. I don't claim to be great at it. Occasionally I get a good sentence off. But I love the activity.

  David Byrne

  Writing, Sentences, Activity

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• The claim that the Government made that there were 21 measures in it is wrong. We said we wanted to wait till we saw the bill because we didn't to trust that it would be as they described and it's turned out we were exactly right for saying that. The Government has been entirely deceptive with this. And if their first action is to lie to the Australian people about what was meant to be their centrepiece bill, that really tells you want the [Malcolm] Turnbull Government's going to be about.

  Tony Burke

  Lying, Government, People

  "Gov't 'can't play a game of lying to the public about what's in their own legislation': Tony Burke". Interview with Michael Brissenden, www.abc.net.au. August 30, 2016.

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• The theory of evolution was not formally published until shortly before Faraday's death. Evolution was yet to be discovered during Faraday's life. Also, I don't think that Michael Faraday would claim that the Earth is extraordinarily young.

  Bill Nye

  Thinking, Theory Of Evolution, Earth

  "BioLogos Interviews Bill Nye". Interview with Brad Kramer, biologos.org. February 4, 2015.

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• The thing about albums is just coming up with new material. I just got tired of that syndrome of putting out an album and then some reviewer claims that this song or that song has something to do with x y or z.

  Van Morrison

  Song, Tired, Albums

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

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• I've also found that trying to be active with social media changes my moment-to-moment perceptions. Instead of feeling, "What's the deepest version of what's happening here?" I start to feel, "How can I use [or "claim"] this?".

  George Saunders

  Media, Feelings, Perception

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

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• Christians claim that life has no meaning if you stop pretending to know things you don't know, though they phrase it more tersely as life has no meaning without faith.

  Peter Boghossian

  Christian, Religion, Phrases

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• The only method of restoring the natural equality of dignity between men and women, lies in the demolishment of that elaborate theological structure which maintains that woman is made for the possession of man in a sense in which man is not made for woman, and that celibacy, per se, is a state of superior purity. Nature and common sense (not metaphysical sense) demonstrate that there is no good reason why any man or any woman should take, claim, or wield "lordship" over another.

  Ellen Battelle Dietrick

  Lying, Men, Common Sense

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• If a problem is too difficult to solve, one cannot claim that it is solved by pointing at all the efforts made to solve it.

  Hannes Alfven

  Effort, Problem, Made

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