Claims Quotes - Page 14

• If I have any claim to originality, I do it by investing my own personality into it, so it's coming from a slightly more sardonic, English point of view.

  James Hunter

  Views, Personality, Investing

  Source: www.motherjones.com

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Since 1981, after our nations severed diplomatic relations, we've worked through a international tribunal to resolve various claims between our countries. The United States and Iran are now settling a long-standing Iranian government claim against the United States government. Iran will be returned its own funds, including appropriate interest but much less than the amount Iran sought. With the nuclear deal done, prisoners released, the time was right to resolve this dispute as well.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Government, Iran

  Statement by the President on Iran, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. January 17, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• At first, I felt bad judging an entire state by one county political official, but then I found out Morrison had also helped screen public school textbooks, a topic which is another chapter in my book. The Alamo is managed by the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, a group whose members can claim a relative who was living in Texas during the revolution. The fight over mismanagement of the Alamo has been going on for years.

  Gail Collins

  Daughter, Book, School

  "Interview With Gail Collins: How Texas Hijacked the American Agenda". Interview with Martha Rosenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 14, 2012.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I first started comedy, me and my friends were kids. I claim - although I know that it's a spurious and probably untrue claim - that we were the first generation of kids to act black.

  Moshe Kasher

  Kids, Black, Firsts

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is clear that several countries, in the Balkans for example, need to be considered countries of safe origin. But others like, in my opinion, Eritrea, undoubtedly need to be considered a country of origin with a valid claim to asylum. And with a third group of states, like Nigeria for example, each individual case needs to be evaluated. Then there are also very controversial cases like Afghanistan. In any case, united European action is needed. This argument for Europeanization may sound utopian, but there is no alternative.

  Paolo Gentiloni

  Country, Alternatives, Eritrea

  Source: www.spiegel.de

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The pope can go ahead and claim that Trump is not a Christian, but you can't go there when we talking about the president of the United States.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Christian, Talking, President

  "The Pope: Trump’s Not a Christian". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It isn't humanly possible for the things radical leftists want to bring about the desired results that they choose. They claim they want a utopian happiness, and they are further and further away from it the more successful they are.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Successful, Want, Results

  "The Pope: Trump’s Not a Christian". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Of course, it's always difficult to disentangle fact from fiction in relation to, e.g., the singularity project. Many scientists I know are dismissive of transhumanist claims, BUT the last 100 years has surely taught us never to underestimate the pace and scope of scientific progress. However, even if much of this turns out to be science-fiction, it also reveals a way of thinking about human life that I find deeply troubling.

  George Pattison

  Thinking, Years, Taught Us

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Perhaps - and this goes for the Kyoto School too - one of these insights is that nothingness and unknowing don't have to be equated with a destructive nihilism but with the experience of unity and participation - whilst resisting the tendency of objectifying metaphysics to claim that we can in some way 'know' that this experienced unity is really the truth of how things are, i.e., reveals being itself.

  George Pattison

  School, Kyoto, Unity

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I guess it happens. What - Marco actually gave me cover, because he actually said the same thing, and he said it during the debate, that he was lying. So, I just said you can't say things which are lies and claim Christianity. You just can't do it. I just don't think it's good. I'm not questioning his Christianity. I just think it's inappropriate to hold up the Bible and lie.

  Donald Trump

  Lying, Thinking, Debate

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Of the seven billion people who reside on planet Earth, only 25% could, in the broadest sense of the word, be classified as "Christian" (and the percentage who have personally trusted in Christ for salvation is much smaller), meaning that over five billion people in the world are destined to hell if indeed Christ offers the exclusive path for salvation. To many people, such a claim is offensive.

  Robert Jeffress

  Christian, People, World

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• I beg my reader to consider the "evidence" I provide for my case and perhaps feel persuaded as a result. Beyond that I make no claim.

  Paul Fry

  Results, Cases, Evidence

  "Originality matters". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 10, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When philosophers try to understand consciousness, much of what they claim is not conceptual analysis at all, though it may be shopped under that description.

  Patricia Churchland

  Trying, Analysis, May

  "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Part of my methodological approach is made explicit when I discuss ways in which literature can have philosophical significance. Literature doesn't typically argue - and when it does, it's deadly dull. But literature can supply the frame within which we come to observe and reason, or it can change our frame in highly significant ways. That's one of the achievements I'd claim for Mann, and for Death in Venice.

  Philip Kitcher

  Philosophical, Venice, Achievement

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Even though I want to expand the number of ways in which skilful ironic play happens, I suspect I'm probably guilty of the same shortcoming - and I hope that, one of these days, someone will claim that my book, while it goes in a salutary expansive direction, doesn't go far enough, that there are assumptions I make that show I've missed aspects of Mann's irony and ambiguity.

  Philip Kitcher

  Book, Play, Numbers

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Donald Trump claims - he did interview after the debate where he said, well, gosh, you can't find Americans to do these jobs to be waiters or waitresses or bellhops.What ridiculous nonsense. "The New York Times" reported roughly 300 Americans applied for those jobs. He only hired 17. Instead, he brought in foreign workers, because they're captive workers, because you can pay them less because they can't leave.

  Ted Cruz

  Jobs, New York, Pay

  "Face the Nation" with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. February 28, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Internalist approaches to epistemology, I believe, have a great deal of intuitive appeal. Internalists believe that the features in virtue of which a belief is justified must somehow be internal to the agent. On some views, this amounts to the claim that these features must be accessible to introspection and armchair reflection. On others, it amounts only to the claim that they must be mental features.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Believe, Reflection, Views

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Bealer argues that the kind of naturalistic view which Quine holds will rob him of the ability to make the normative claims which (many) naturalists wish to make in epistemology. I don't think this is right about Quine, but I'm certain it's not right about my own view. To the extent that I can show that talk of knowledge is firmly rooted within empirical theories where it plays an important explanatory role, I thereby demonstrate its naturalistic credentials.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Thinking, Views, Play

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The kinds of claims I make about knowledge are thus meant to be illustrative of a general argumentative strategy which might well bear fruit in areas of philosophy which I have not thus far explored.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Philosophy, Fruit, Bears

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Conventional psychiatry has emphasized the genetic roots of psychosis based on the claim that twin and other studies show that schizophrenia is 80% heritable, which means that 80% of the cause is genetic.

  Richard Bentall

  Mean, Psychosis, Roots

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• This [9/11 event] was bloody-minded destruction for no other reason than to do it. Note that there was no claim for these attacks. There were no demands. There were no statements. It was a silent piece of terror. This was part of nothing.

  Edward Said

  Pieces, Demand, Events

  Source: www.progressive.org

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Most Arabs and Muslims feel that the United States hasn't really been paying much attention to their desires. They think it has been pursuing its policies for its own sake and not according to many of the principles that it claims are its own - democracy, self-determination, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, international law.

  Edward Said

  Determination, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.progressive.org

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• The government of Iran claims that every two years there are elections. But none of them are free.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Government, Iran, Years

  "Iran’s Nobel Peace Laureate Speaks From Exile". Interview with Bryan Schatz, www.motherjones.com. February 29, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• While I do not agree with all of the claims made by experimental philosophers, especially those who seem to think xphi will somehow replace the rest of philosophy, I think xphi projects are interesting and important, I love Josh Knobe's work, and that these projects contribute something new and worthwhile to the philosophical conversation.

  L.A. Paul

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Thinking

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think you have to grieve the loss of youth before you can claim the joy on the other side of it.

  Marianne Williamson

  Loss, Thinking, Grieving

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source