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• Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get tested, while their students derange themselves with weird ideas, empty rituals, and other affectations.

  Sam Harris

  Spiritual, Teacher, Art

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• Most people believe that the Creator of the universe wrote (or dictated) one of their books. Unfortunately, there are many books that pretend to divine authorship, and each makes incompatible claims about how we all must live.

  Sam Harris

  Believe, Book, People

  "Science Must Destroy Religion" by Sam Harris, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 2, 2006.

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• I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Believe, Public Opinion, Doe

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• Our strategy in dealing with patents in Mono is the same strategy that any other software developer would take. In the event of a patent claim, we will try to find prior art to the claim of the patent.

  Miguel de Icaza

  Art, Trying, Patents

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• The Tea Party claims to want small government.

  Penn Jillette

  Party, Government, Tea

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

  Carl Jung

  Hurt, Wine, Science

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• The media, of course, loves to make claims about the fountain of youth. Don't believe it. No one has it. But we're getting close.

  Michio Kaku

  Believe, Media, Youth

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• The energy necessary to create a wormhole or to wrap time into nuts is incredible. It's not for us. It's maybe for our descendants who have mastered the energy of this technology. So if one day, somebody knocks on your door and claims to be your great great great great granddaughter, don't slam the door.

  Michio Kaku

  Technology, Doors, Nuts

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• Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had. I think that it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can't stand up to those principles when you're raising a child, forget it.

  Diane Keaton

  Children, Believe, Parenting

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• I stole comic books from my brother when I was a kid, but I was never like an avid fan. I can't claim to be like a comic book geek.

  Anna Kendrick

  Brother, Book, Kids

  "Anna Kendrick on Scott Pilgrim vs. the World". Interview with Caroline Bankoff, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 11, 2010.

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• The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.

  Alan Keyes

  Government, Years, Tariffs

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• Everybody in politics claims to want to get everybody out of poverty. What's the opposite? Wealth. And what is often criticized by the left? Wealth.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Opposites, Want, Poverty

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• Free speech gives us the ability to react vigorously with effective arguments and expose the weakness and misdirection of the other side's claims.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Giving, Weakness, Speech

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• I live in Realville, and my problem is that I'm governed by logic. And some of the claims that are made by people on the left just don't hold up.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Logic, Problem

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• A creep is someone who claims he's one thing but he's actually another.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Creeps, One Thing

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• The health insurance industry does not like to pay out claims, because they don't make money. The only way they can make a profit is if they don't pay for your operation. If they pay for your operation and your doctor's appointment and your pharmaceuticals, they don't make any money.

  Michael Moore

  Doctors, Doe, Pay

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• I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.

  Bill Nye

  Critical, Regard, Evaluate

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• But let me perfectly clear, because I know you'll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.

  Barack Obama

  Family, Mean, Years

  First Speech to a Joint Session of Congress, delivered 24 February 2009

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• Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars.

  Yoko Ono

  Stars, Bed Of Roses, Worst Situation

  "Yoko Ono, a Decade After the 'Horrible Thing' : John Lennon's widow still lives under a shadow, but, she says, 'It's not a bad time'". Interview with Glenn Plaskin, articles.latimes.com. May 06, 1990.

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• It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

  George Orwell

  Country, Political, Democracy

  George Orwell (1968). “The collected essays, journalism, and letters of George Orwell”

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• Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.

  Camille Paglia

  Party, Class, Ordinary

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• I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.

  Camille Paglia

  Children, Elderly, Law

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• Santa Barbara is my hood. I mean, it's not much of a hood, but it is definitely like my hood. I claim Santa Barbara like I claim my family. I'm going to be married and buried there.

  Katy Perry

  Mean, Santa Barbara, Married

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• As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.

  Steven Pinker

  Commitment, Equality, People

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• By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class.

  John Podhoretz

  Cutting, Class, Levels

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