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• No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Faithful, Monopoly, Civilisation

  "Action must follow Obama's words" by Tariq Ramadan, www.theguardian.com. June 03, 2009.

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• I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.

  Herbert Read

  Law, Jurisprudence, Literature

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

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• The comics I hate are thieves. Nothing's more disgusting than a guy who steals another person's ideas and tries to claim them as his own.

  Joe Rogan

  Hate, Ideas, Guy

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

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• The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.

  Karl Rove

  Country, Team, Growth

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• Of course there are critics who believe that no matter what we do, the Florida dream is over. They claim that we must accept the idea that inevitably our future is one of high taxes and big government.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Believe, Florida

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• So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

  Ibrahim Rugova

  Yugoslavia, Doe, Republic

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• Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Philosophy, Reality, Materialism

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• There are two types of claims: those based on hard numbers and those based on slippery numbers.

  Simon Sinek

  Numbers, Two, Type

  "Slippery Numbers" by Simon Sinek, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie.

  L. Neil Smith

  Hate, Lying, World

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• Few professors would dare to publish research or teach a course debunking the claims made in various ethnic, gender, or other 'studies' courses.

  Thomas Sowell

  Research, Study, Gender

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• As one who was a prosecutor for many years, I can tell you that having a tape recording of interrogations would help everybody. It would make clear if there had been improper pressure exerted on a defendant or witness, and it would also protect the interrogating officer from false claims that such pressure had been brought to bear.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Years, Tape, Pressure

  "All Police Interrogations Should Be Tape-Recorded". Article by Eliot Spitzer, www.slate.com. October 08, 2012.

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• If private-equity firms are as good at remaking companies as they claim, they don't need tax loopholes to make money.

  James Surowiecki

  Needs, Making Money, Taxes

  "Private Inequity". www.newyorker.com. January 30, 2012.

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• I maintain, despite the moment's evidence against the claim, that we are born and grow up with a fondness for each other, and we have genes for that. We can be talked out of it, for the genetic message is like a distant music, and some of us are hard-of-hearing. Societies are noisy affairs, drowning out the sound of ourselves and our connection.

  Lewis Thomas

  Growing Up, Hearing, Messages

  Lewis Thomas (1984). “Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony”, Bantam

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• Beyond the Catholic exclusionary paradigm is a larger one which is the Christian one. Christians claim that if you don't believe in Christ, you can't get to heaven. Well that eliminates two thirds of the world's population!

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Christian, Believe, Two

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• I do think, however, that there's a very diverse point of view in the African-American community. There's a lot of different voices that need to be heard. I don't claim and pretend to know the thoughts and opinions and ideas of all African-Americans.

  J. C. Watts

  Thinking, Views, Ideas

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• I'm obviously not a rapper, and I don't have any claims to be one, really.

  Al Yankovic

  Rapper

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.

  Thom Yorke

  Music, Art, Writing

  "Truth in the Hands of Artists". Interview with Sarah Burton, www.alternet.org. November 23, 2003.

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• In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.

  Emile Zola

  Photography, Views, Photograph

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• God isn't present in the past or future. The great 'I Am' is in the present moment. When I claim that presence, I can get through anything today.

  Regina Brett

  Past, Today, Moments

  Regina Brett (2010). “Life's Little Detours: 50 Lessons to Find and Hold onto Happiness”, p.44, Hachette UK

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• Over 5,000 years, states have made surprisingly consistent claims about their duties. They have promised to protect people from threats; promote their welfare; deliver justice and also, perhaps less obviously, uphold truth - originally truths about the cosmos, and more recently truths drawn from reason and knowledge.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Years, People, Justice

  "The media's lies poison our system" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2004.

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• I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Struggle, Intellectual, Christ

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• The president of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialogue with God. If he said that he was talking to God through his hairdryer, this would precipitate a national emergency. I fail to see how the addition of a hairdryer makes the claim more ridiculous or offensive.

  Sam Harris

  Atheist, Talking, Religion

  "Letter to a Christian Nation". Book by Sam Harris, reason.com. January 8, 2008.

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• If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Truth, Party

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• I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim—so modestly and so humbly—to possess. It is time to withdraw our 'respect' from such fantastic claims, all of them aimed at the exertion of power over other humans in the real and material world.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Real, Godly

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• The neo-conservatives, who are closely linked to the neo-corporatists, are rather different. They claim to be conservatives, when everything they stand for is a rejection of conservatism. They claim to present an alternate social model, when they are little more than the courtiers of the corporatist movement. Their agitation is filled with the bitterness and cynicism typical of courtiers who scramble for crumbs at the banquet tables of real power, but are always denied a proper chair.

  John Ralston Saul

  Real, Rejection, Bitterness

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