Claims Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• That great political idea, sanctifying freedom and consecrating it to God, teaching men to treasure the liberties of others as their own and to defend them for the love of justice and charity more than as a claim of right, has been the soul of what is great and good in the progress of the last two hundred years.

  Lord Acton

  Teaching, Men, Years

  Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom: Great Event”, p.47, VM eBooks

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• One who knows not what his rights are can never know when they are taken and is unable to defend them. He is like a man who believes he owns a piece of ground which his neighbor also claims, but he doesn't know its boundaries. The neighbor continues to encroach further and further onto land he suspects is his, but since he is never certain where the boundary is, he cannot check the advance. Until he takes a firm position and says: "this far and no further," there is no line.

  H. Verlan Andersen

  Taken, Believe, Men

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• I found myself desiring and knowing less and less, until I could say in utter astonishment: "I know nothing, I want nothing." Earlier I was sure of so many things, now I am sure of nothing. But I feel I have lost nothing by not knowing, because all my knowledge was false. My not knowing was in itself knowledge of the fact that all my knowledge is ignorance, that "I do not know" is the only true statement the mind can make....I do not claim to know what you do not. In fact, I know much less than you do.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Ignorance, Knowing, Mind

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• The Soviet State does not need either illusions or camouflage. It can claim only that world authority which is confirmed by the facts.

  Leon Trotsky

  Doe, Needs, World

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• As I understand it, Kantian constructivism is partly a position in normative ethics and partly a position in metaethics. In metaethics, it is the position that ethical claims have truth values, but their truth conditions consist not in a set of objective facts to which they correspond, but instead in the outcome of some procedure of deliberation resulting in decisions about what to do.

  Allen W. Wood

  Decision, Outcomes, Facts

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• If we decide rightly what to do, or use a correct procedure for making such decisions, that has to be because the decisions or the procedure rest on good reasons, and these reasons consist in the apprehension of truths about what we ought to do. Because these truths must constitute reasons for our decisions, and because in the rational order, reasons must always precede the decisions based on them, the truth conditions of claims about what we ought to cannot be reduced to, or constructed out of, decisions about what to do, or procedures for making such decisions.

  Allen W. Wood

  Order, Decision, Use

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I pray for that moment in which I think we can claim to the world that we are now in a different, new era of Indo-American relationship of trust, of working together, partnership strengthened both by our commitment to common values, and also the identity of interests.

  Manmohan Singh

  Commitment, Thinking, Together

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• I did study Shakespeare, that was sort of my thing; I got a Literature A-level, which is my only claim to academic fame.

  Paul McCartney

  Literature, Levels, Study

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

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• Moral claims aren't, as a class, truth-value apt or not.

  Catherine Wilson

  Class, Moral, Values

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• In other words, United States, our values, the way that we occupy ourselves in terms of saying here's the way we stand in this country when we go to war, it's not that we go in and we kill off anybody, including families. We don't take the riches. We don't claim the women. My God, that's not America.

  Juan Williams

  Country, War, America

  "Clinton, Trump square off in commander-in-chief forum". "Special Report" with Bret Baier, www.foxnews.com. September 8, 2016.

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• If Donald Trump's main claim to be president of the United States is your business, then I think we should talk about that.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, President, United States

  Source: time.com

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• As for the European far left, it has very little to do with Marxism-Leninism these days. It has more to do with anti-Semitism, racism, anti-migration. They claim to be left-wing but they're espousing positions which would actually be classically brown.

  Toomas Hendrik Ilves

  Wings, Racism, Littles

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Mr. [Donald] Trump, for five years, you perpetuated a false claim that the nation's first black president was not a natural-born citizen. You questioned his legitimacy. In the last couple of weeks, you acknowledged what most Americans have accepted for years: The president was born in the United States.

  Lester Holt

  Couple, Years, Black

  The first Trump-Clinton presidential debate at Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, www.washingtonpost.com. September 26, 2016.

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• We also have to intensify our air strikes against ISIS and eventually support our Arab and Kurdish partners to be able to actually take out ISIS in Raqqa, end their claim of being a Caliphate.

  Hillary Clinton

  Isis, Air, Support

  "Trump vs. Clinton: Full Transcript Of First Presidential Debate 2016". www.ibtimes.com. September 27, 2016.

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• Donald Trump represents the same rigged system that he claims he's going to change.

  Hillary Clinton

  Trump, Rigged

  Source: time.com

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• One of the things I've always thought is that if I were to write a poetics, it would have to do with the poetics of failure, and the way in which all the things that you claim or that you try for are already based on the limits of language.

  Martha Ronk

  Writing, Trying, Way

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I've said repeatedly that where we see terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda or ISIL, they have perverted and distorted and tried to claim the mantle of Islam for an excuse, for basically barbarism and death. These are people who kill children, kill Muslims, take sex slaves - there's no religious rationale that would justify in any way any of the things that they do.

  Barack Obama

  Religious, Sex, Children

  CNN Presidential Town Hall: America’s Military and The Commander and Chief, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. September 28, 2016.

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• This is not to deny that there are versions of theism that do conflict with evolutionary biology. Young Earth Creationism is an example; it claims that God created life on earth within the past 10,000 to 50,000 years. But other types of theism are different.

  Elliott Sober

  Past, Years, Example

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Deism claims that God creates the universe and the laws of nature and then is hands-off, with everything that subsequently happens in nature being due to natural processes.

  Elliott Sober

  Hands, Law, Natural

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Darwin repeatedly used the hypothesis of common ancestry as a platform on which to build his various ideas about testing hypotheses concerning natural selection. He also argued that adaptive similarities provide little or no evidence for common ancestry. Although this second claim needs to be fine-tuned, Darwin was right that ample evidence for common ancestry can exist even if none of the characteristics we observe were caused to evolve by natural selection.

  Elliott Sober

  Ideas, Littles, Ancestry

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It can be a necessary conceptual truth that pains are painful without this ruling out the physicalist thesis that immaterial minds are impossible or the thesis that conscious states supervene on physical states. The necessity involved in these claims is nomological necessity, not metaphysical necessity (assuming that these are different).

  Elliott Sober

  Pain, Mind, Different

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• You notice that the Democrats are totally unified. I mean, you know they're dragging Algore back out? Algore is being dragged out of the Apple boardroom and wherever else he hangs out to go and rally Millennials on the premise that Millennials will respond to Algore's claim that we are destroying the planet and that he will get their attention.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Apples, Millennials

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Every time Donald Trump thinks things are not going in his direction, he claims whatever it is, is rigged against him.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Trump, Rigged

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• I think [George] Orwell is right. There are certainly moments when political differences appear minor, and someone can claim to be non-political or to want to stay out of the fray, but today is not one of those moments.

  Adam Hochschild

  Thinking, Political Differences, Want

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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