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• The new discovery of a 3.3 billion barrel oil deposit off Norway's coast cements that nation's claim to being Europe's second largest oil producer.

  Bob Beauprez

  Oil, Discovery, Europe

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• Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Balance, Important, Groups

  Interview With Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. February 28, 2011.

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• There is much, of course, in the exclusive claims of Christianity which make it hostile to other faiths.

  Annie Besant

  Christianity, Hostile, Exclusive

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• The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Hope, Inspiration, Future

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• Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.

  James Buchan

  Arabia, Virtue, States

  "Lifting the veil". www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2004.

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• When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'

  Vince Cable

  Jobs, Lying, Oil

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• To cut short this question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

  Albert Camus

  Cutting, Law, Two

  "Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays".

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• I don’t claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I’m home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, “Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.”

  Jimmy Carter

  Book, Home, Sunday

  "Jimmy Carter Interview: Real Story Behind Egypt Israeli Peace Deal". Interview with Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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• The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and public sector workers are forced to pay union dues as a condition of their employment, yet they have little say in how the unions spend their money.

  Linda Chavez

  Law, Employment, Literature

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• Being called ugly and fat and disgusting to look at from the time I could barely understand what the words meant has scarred me so deep inside that I have learned to hunt, stalk, claim, own and defend my own loveliness.

  Margaret Cho

  Looks, Ugly, Stalking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When some Republican governors asked to try new ways to put people on welfare back to work, the Obama Administration said they would only do it if they had a credible plan to increase employment by 20%. You hear that? More work. So the claim that President Obama weakened welfare reform's work requirement is just not true.

  William J. Clinton

  People, Trying, President

  "Bill Clinton Speech Text: Read The Former President’s Democratic Convention Remarks", www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

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• At the beginning of his administration, Obama homed right in on Medicare, which he wanted to fix by reducing the overall cost of health care in this country. He risked everything - some would claim he lost everything - by being so single-minded.

  Gail Collins

  Country, Cost, Care

  "Politicians, Love ’Em or Hate ’Em". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. September 21, 2011.

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• If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.

  Mason Cooley

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Achievement

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  It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

  Richard Dawkins

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

  "The Richard Dimbleby Lecture: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder". Lecture, BBC1 Television, November 12, 1996.

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• In today's distorted world of 'human rights,' truth takes a back seat to ideology, and false claims - especially those that 'support' radical ideologies - persist even after they have been exposed.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Rights, Support, World

  Alan Dershowitz (2014). “Terror Tunnels: The Case for Israel's Just War Against Hamas”, p.20, RosettaBooks

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• Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Character, Black, Principles

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• Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take notes or use a tape recorder, but I suspect his memory claims were just a useful cover to invent dialogue whole cloth.

  Joshua Foer

  Memories, Tape, Use

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• Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed the mantle, even while lacking two ingredients of an electoral mandate: a landslide victory and a specific agenda.

  Ron Fournier

  Two, Victory, Desire

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• There is no higher claim to journalistic integrity than going to jail to protect a source.

  Thomas Frank

  Integrity, Jail, Source

  "Obama Is Right About Fox News" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Every city is either vibrant these days or is working on a plan to attain vibrancy soon. The reason is simple: a city isn't successful - isn't even a city, really - unless it can lay claim to being 'vibrant.'

  Thomas Frank

  Successful, Simple, Cities

  John Summers, Chris Lehmann, Thomas Frank (2014). “No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler”, p.110, MIT Press

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• I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there's just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.

  Stephen Fry

  Stars, Quality, Ordinary

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 22, 2004.

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• Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Needs, Stories, Want

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• Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless.

  Frank Gehry

  Issues, Marketing, Tools

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• A lot of people who claim they're political comedians are just comedians who have opinions. But they stop being funny the minute they give their opinions.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  People, Giving, Political

  "Gottfried's key to political humor". Interview with Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. August 2, 2013.

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• To tell you the truth, I've never met anybody who can envision more than three dimensions. There are some who claim they can, and maybe they can; it's hard to say.

  Brian Greene

  Three, Dimensions, Mets

  NOVA interview, www.pbs.org. October 28, 2003.

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