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• [N]othing is less reliable than unchecked claims from political officials that their secret conduct is justified by National Security Threats and the desire to Keep Us Safe.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Political, Secret, Desire

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• The Obama administration already claims the power to wage endless and boundless war, in virtually total secrecy, and without a single meaningful check or constraint. No institution with any power disputes this. To the contrary, the only ones which exert real influence - Congress, the courts, the establishment media, the plutocratic class - clearly favor its continuation and only think about how further to enable it.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Meaningful, Real, War

  "Washington gets explicit: its 'war on terror' is permanent". www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2013.

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• A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Snob, Familiar

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• The most vital question to ask about all who claim to be Christian is this: Have they a soul thirst for God? ... Is their life centered on Him? Do they press forward more and more that they might know Him.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Christian, Soul, Might

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• We as Bible-believing evangelical Christians are locked in a battle. This is not a friendly gentleman's discussion. It is a life and death conflict between the spiritual hosts of wickedness and those who claim the name of Christ.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Spiritual, Believe

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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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• I claim to be no more than an average man with below average capabilities.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Average, Capability

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• It is only as we consciously bring each victory to His feet, and keep it there as we think of it - and especially as we speak of it - that we can avoid the pride of that victory, which can be worse than the sin over which we claim to have had the victory.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Pride, Thinking, Feet

  Francis Schaeffer (2016). “The Francis Schaeffer Collection: True Spirituality / He Is There and He Is Not Silent”, p.137, NavPress

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• [Socialists claim] that we reject fraternity, solidarity, organization, and association; and they brand us with the name of individualists. We can assure them that what we repudiate is not natural organization, but forced organization. It is not free association, but the forms of association that they would impose upon us. It is not spontaneous fraternity, but legal fraternity. It is not providential solidarity, but artificial solidarity, which is only an unjust displacement of responsibility. Socialism . . . confounds Government and society.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Responsibility, Government, Names

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• He who cannot by his labor suffice for his own support has no claim to the privilege of helping himself to the money of others. By becoming dependent on the remaining members of the community for actual subsistence, he abdicates his claim to equal rights for them I other respects.

  John Stuart Mill

  Rights, Support, Community

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.385, OUP Oxford

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• Every corporate security may be best viewed, in the first instance, as an ownership interest in, or a claim against, a specific business enterprise.

  Benjamin Graham

  May, Firsts, Ownership

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.205, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Sin claims to free but in fact it kills.

  Mark Dever

  Facts, Sin

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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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• Al Gore announced Tuesday that he plans to launch a 24-hour cable news network for young adults. Gore claims he's been wanting to do this since he invented cable TV in the 1990s.

  Tina Fey

  Tuesday, Adults, News

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• Academic environments are generally characterised by the presence of peole who claim to understand more than in fact they do. Linguistic Philosophy has produced a great revolution, generating people who claim not to understand when in fact they do. Some achieve great virtuosity at it. Any beginner in philosophy can manage not to understand, say, Hegel, but I have heard people who were so advanced that they knew how not to understand writers of such limpid clarity as Bertrand Russell or A.J. Ayer.

  Ernest Gellner

  Philosophy, People, Revolution

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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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• It's curious that only in Washington can you spend $2 billion and claim that you're saving money.

  Rand Paul

  Saving, Curious, Billions

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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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