Claims Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• And you can claim whatever you want to of being pro-life or pro- choice, but the right to a abortion is not in the Constitution. The court created it. It created a constitutional right. And these decisions removed a fully appropriate political judgment from the people of the several states and has led to many adverse consequences.

  Sam Brownback

  People, Choices, Pro Life

  "U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court". www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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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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• For instance, they [The Federal Narcotics Bureau ] give out that marijuana is a harmful and habit-forming drug, and it simply isn't. They claim that you can get addicted to opiates with one shot, and you can't. They over-estimate the physical bad effects, and so forth.

  William S. Burroughs

  Marijuana, Giving, Drug

  William S. Burroughs (2001). “Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997”, Semiotext

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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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• There's a good deal of ivory being sold that claims to be antique ivory. In fact, we've seen evidence that there are fake antiques being carved in countries like China.

  Allen Crawford

  Country, Ivory, Fake

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• The truth of the matter is that inerrancy is simply a way of saying that there are no errors that call into question the truthfulness of Scripture wherever Scripture is making truth claims.

  D. A. Carson

  Errors, Matter, Way

  Source: www.booksataglance.com

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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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• My assessment of Julian Assange is a professional one, really, of what he's managed to achieve, and the idea that he came up with, which set the world alight and continues to inspire others like Snowden [NSA leaker Edward Snowden], about the secret goings-on that are done in our name with our tax dollars on behalf of big business or politics. He launched the revolutionary idea that citizens can start to claim back a paradigm for questioning power structures and those in authority through an anonymous, whistle-blowing website.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Assessment, Nsa, Names

  "The Cumberbatch Kid Comes of Age and is All the Rage". Interview with Kam Williams, pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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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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• I can't claim to be disenchanted "with the current state of fiction" because I read so little of it. My reading is mostly drawn to history.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Reading, Fiction, Littles

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Former New York Mayor, Rudy Giuliani, former Alaska Governor, Sarah Palin, talk show Rush Limbaugh claim - " don't you love that, they "claim." I'm not claiming anything. I'm saying. Anyway. " - that Black Lives Matter exacerbates tensions and sows racial divides." How can that even be debatable?

  Rush Limbaugh

  New York, Alaska, Black

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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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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• Reading their letters and the First Amendment of the US Constitution, I infer that this nation's founders noted that religions have been at the center of great deal of trouble, so they precluded the US government from getting involved in religion, i.e. "... shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." Over the centuries, various religions have laid claim to various morals; consider the difficulties outsiders are having today in the Middle East, for example.

  Bill Nye

  Reading, Exercise, Law

  "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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• There is too much ideological conformity in gender studies. The true-believers fashion the theories, write the textbooks and teach the students. When journalists, policymakers, and legislators address topics such as the wage gap, gender and education, or women's health, they turn to these experts for enlightenment. For the most part, they peddle misinformation, victim politics, and sophistry. They claim that their teachings represent the academic consensus, but that is only because they have excluded all dissenters.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Fashion, Teaching, Writing

  "Is Modern Academic Feminism Harming Women?". Interview with Clay Routledge, www.psychologytoday.com. September 4, 2016.

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• At the same time we receive different signals all around that in fact, everything is fine. The same situation occurred with the previous administrations during the election campaigns, claims that everything will be restored later. I do not think it matches the level of responsibility shouldered by the United States. I suppose it should be more sound, calm and balanced.

  Vladimir Putin

  Responsibility, Thinking, Sound

  Source: thesaker.is

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