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• The biggest liar in the world is the golfer who claims he plays the game for exercise.

  Tommy Bolt

  Funny, Liars, Humorous

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• Often it is hard. So hard, in fact, that Jesus' decree to love and pray for our opponents is regarded as one of the most breathtaking and gut-wrenching challenges of his entire Sermon on the Mount, a speech renowned for its outrageous claims. There was no record of any other spiritual leader ever having articulated such a clear-cut, unambiguous command for people to express compassion to those who are actively working against their best interests.

  Lee Strobel

  Spiritual, Jesus, Prayer

  Lee Strobel (2005). “God's Outrageous Claims: Discover What They Mean for You”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• It is an irrational claim to believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ and at the same time to hold that the greater part of his teachings have no application at the present time. If you say that the reason why the powers do not follow them that believe (as Christ said they would) is because you have not faith enough and are not pure enough-that will be all right. But to say that they have no application at the present time is to be ridiculous.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Believe, Teaching

  Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Complete Works”

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• Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No. That he was first to repeat them? No. None of these things has any value. He confers on them their only originality that has any value, and that is his way of telling them." Mark Twain "...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written.

  Edith Wharton

  Lying, People, Firsts

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• Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything that I can see with my naked eye.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Eye, Sarcasm

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The Lost World: Professor Challenger #1”, p.13, Zillmann Publishing

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• There's about to be a shift in your life. Get ready for your blessings. You've been through enough and a breakthrough is on the way. Don't doubt it, just claim it!

  Tony Gaskins

  Life, Blessing, Doubt

  FaceBook post by Tony A. Gaskins Jr from May 01, 2013

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• He prayed on Fridays with the Muslims, on Saturdays with the Jews and on Sundays with the Christians. 'Since each religion claims that it is the only true one and that the others are invalid', the king explained, 'I have decided to hedge my bets'.

  Ahmad ibn Rustah

  Christian, Friday, Kings

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• Maybe there are only atheists in foxholes. If the faithful truly and fully believe in a protective deity, why would they dive into a foxhole to protect themselves from the bullets whizzing by ? A part of their brain knows damn well that if they do not protect themselves, the bullets will hardly discriminate between those who claim faith and those who reject it.

  J. Anderson Thomson

  Atheist, Believe, Faithful

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• Whoever claims to be smart, but does not concentrate on the Hereafter, is lying.

  Wahb ibn Munabbih

  Smart, Lying, Islamic

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• You can tell a person, not by what they say they are gratitude for, but how they respect what they claim to be grateful for.

  Davina Veronica

  Gratitude, Honesty, Grateful

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• The mind wants to land, to fixate, to hold a concept, but the only way you can be really free is by not fixating. That's part of true maturity, and it's one of the hardest things for spiritual people who have had true and powerful revelations to go through - to accept the degree of surrender needed to literally let go of all experience and all self-reference. Even in great revelations, there is almost always something that wants to claim, "I am this." Every time you claim, "I am this", you just claimed another sense perception, thought, emotion, or feeling.

  Adyashanti

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Powerful

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• The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

  Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

  Men, Vanity, Morality

  Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks (1976). “The Female Imagination”

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• Learning what the world is like; learning what mankind is like - these are hindered if students lie to another, or steal, or claim something is the fruit of their labors when it really is someone else's.

  Kenneth G. Elzinga

  Truth, Lying, Honor

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• This is my child, this is my wealth: such thoughts are the preoccupations of fools. If we are unable to own even ourselves, why make such claims?

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Letting Go, Children

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• I do not always ask, in my prayers and discussions, for only those things I would like to see happen, because no man can claim to know what is best for mankind. Wakan Tanka and Grandfather alone know what is best, and this is why, even though I am worried, my attitude is not overcome with fear of the future. I submit always to Wakan Tanka's will. This is not easy, and most people find it impossible, but I have seen the power of Prayer and I have seen God's desires fulfilled. So I pray always that God will give me wisdom to accept his way of doing things.

  Frank Fools Crow

  Prayer, Attitude, Native American

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• A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.

  Herodotus

  Respect, Women, Garments

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• By focusing on such a narrow slice of Nepali life, Ms. Spray and Mr. Velez have ceded any totalizing claim on the truth and instead settled for a perfect incompleteness.

  Manohla Dargis

  Perfect, Incompleteness, Spray

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• How many times have you struggled with the interpretation of certain Biblical texts related to the time of Jesus' return because they did not fit with a preconceived system of eschatology? Russell's Parousia takes the Bible seriously when it tells us of the nearness of Christ's return. Those who claim to interpret the Bible literally, trip over the obvious meaning of these time texts by making Scripture mean the opposite of what it unequivocally declares. Reading Russell is a breath of fresh air in a room filled with smoke and mirror hermeneutics.

  Gary DeMar

  Jesus, Reading, Mean

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• The Bible judges the church; the church does not judge the Bible. The Bible is the foundation for and the creator of the church; the church is not the foundation for or creator of the Bible. The church and its hierarchy must be evaluated by the believer with the biblical gospel as the touchstone or plumb line for judging all truth claims.

  Timothy Keller

  Biblical, Judging, Church

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• It seems to me like all these people claim to be the victim,
  Acting like the whole entire world is out to get them.
  Stand up on your own,
  And prove that you are grown,
  Because the life that you save may be your own.

  Lee Majors

  Rap, People, Hip Hop

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• They claim we're products from the bottom of Hell,
  But the black is back, and it's bound to sell.
  Picture us coolin' out on the Fourth of July...
  And if you heard we were celebratin', that's a worldwide lie.

  Flavor Flav

  Lying, Rap, July

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• 'You claim to be the man, you want me for a lover,
  So you can do my girlfriends and my sister and my mother?'
  I said, 'You're very blunt,' with quickness to the cue,
  'So whassup with your mother, does she look as good as you?'

  Dres

  Mother, Girlfriend, Rap

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• We must not be misled by the claim that the source of all wisdom is in the government.

  Herbert Hoover

  Government, Presidential, Source

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• Over and over, expanding scientific knowledge has shown religious claims to be false.

  Paul D. Boyer

  Religious, Religion, Expanding

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• Anyone who promises that everything can be made the way it used to be with the recipes of the past betrays in reality the people he claims to represent. We must never participate in this betrayal and we must never allow this betrayal.

  Matthias Platzeck

  Betrayal, Past, Reality

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