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• [E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Inspirational, Motivational, Atheist

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• [Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of her crowded daily routine. Each of these was a world in itself.

  Thornton Wilder

  Dream, Art, Routine

  Thornton Wilder (1961). “Twayne's United States Authors Series”

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• Smoke You stand infront of me, pretending to be solid, but you are nothing more than smoke and mirors. You said you'd never leave, that you would care for us forever, but now you claim you cannot stay? That you've been called away. When you go, who will i turn to when it all crashes down? Tell me who. Then tell me, how I can believe anone again, if all your promises have been lies.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Lying, Believe, Forever

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• I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!

  Richard P. Feynman

  Average, Guy, Five

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• The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.

  Guy Debord

  Powerful, Class

  Guy Debord (2014). “The Society of the Spectacle”, p.39, Bureau of Public Secrets

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• You need not think that because we chanced to be born of the same parents, I shall suffer you to fasten me down by even the feeblest claim: I can tell you this - if the whole human race, ourselves excepted, were swept away, and we two stood alone on the earth, I would leave you in the old world, and betake myself to new.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Thinking, Race, Two

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.194, Penguin

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• What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible, what is correct, here and now. The philosopher, of all people, must, I think, be aware of the tension between what he claims to achieve and the reality in which he finds himself.

  Hans-Georg Gadamer

  Reality, Men, Thinking

  Hans-Georg Gadamer (2013). “Truth and Method”, p.35, A&C Black

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• God, come down, if you're really there - Well, you're the one who claims to care!

  Steven Morrissey

  Care, Wells, Ifs

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• It is community and respect, of course, but the dead have more claims on you than what you might want to admit or even what you might know about and them claims can be very strong indeed. Very strong indeed.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Strong, Community, Want

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “No Country for Old Men”, p.124, Vintage

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• Whose is it, do you think?" I say finally. "No telling," says Finnick. "Why don't we let Peeta claim it, since he died today?

  Suzanne Collins

  Thinking, Today, Died

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.292, Scholastic Inc.

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• Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly influenced by it. There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood.' That's a rather broad idea,' I remarked. One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature,' he answered.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Memories, Ideas, Race

  1887 A Study in Scarlet, ch.7.

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• While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness. We encounter God in the ordinariness of life: not in the search for spiritual highs and extraordinary, mystical experiences but in our simple presence in life.

  Brennan Manning

  Spiritual, Past, Simple

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• There are the those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity.

  Katherine Dunn

  Brain, Behaviour, Mediocrity

  FaceBook post by Katherine Dunn from Jan 29, 2012

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• What must strike any intelligent witch or wizard on studying the so-called history of the Elder Wand is that every man who claims to have owned it has insisted that it is "unbeatable," when the known facts of its passage through many owners' hands demonstrate that has it not only been beaten hundreds of times, but that it also attracts trouble as Grumble the Grubby Goat attracted flies.

  J. K. Rowling

  Intelligent, Men, Hands

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• Part of my soul I seek thee, and claim thee my other half

  John Milton

  Soul, Half, Thee

  John Milton, “Paradise Lost, Book IV, [The Argument]”

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• Everybody allows that to know any other science you must have first studied it, and that you can only claim to express a judgment upon it in virtue of such knowledge. Everybody allows that to make a shoe you must have learned and practised the craft of the shoemaker, though every man has a model in his own foot, and possesses in his hands the natural endowments for the operations required. For philosophy alone, it seems to be imagined, such study, care, and application are not in the least requisite

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Philosophy, Men, Hands

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1904). “The Logic of Hegel”

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• Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enforcing a certain regime that disciplines human beings for social life by narrowing our perspectives and limiting our horizons.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Discipline, Perspective, Horizon

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• We stole countries with the cunning use of flags. Just sail around the world and stick a flag in. "I claim India for Britain!" They're going "You can't claim us, we live here! Five hundred million of us!" "Do you have a flag …? "No..." "Well, if you don't have a flag, then you can't have a country. Those are the rules... that I just made up!

  Eddie Izzard

  Country, India, Flags

  "Dress to Kill", 1998.

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• Dead people belong to the live people who claim them most obsessively.

  James Ellroy

  People, Dead People

  "My Dark Places". Book by James Ellroy, 1996.

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• Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure to keep up a large acquaintance with the organs of opinion, remain much more ignorant of the general state either of the public mind, or of the active and instructed part of it, than a recluse who reads the newspapers need be.

  John Stuart Mill

  Giving, Ignorant, Mind

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “Autobiography John Stuart Mill: Top Biography”, p.118, 谷月社

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• Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.

  Romain Rolland

  Impossible, Discussion

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• He (Intellectuals) claims that label to compensate for his own inadequacies. It's as old as that saying: tell me what you boast of and I'll tell you what you lack. Our daily bread. The incompetent always present themselves as experts, the cruel as pious, sinners as excessively devout, usurers as benefactors, the small-minded as patriots, the arrogant as humble, the vulgar as elegant and the feeble-minded as intellectual.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Humble, Intellectual, Experts

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• Speaking of, her family is due in any minute to claim her body. What am I supposed to tell them when we can’t give the body over? Again, I don’t think ‘oops’ will quite cover it. (Tate)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, Giving, Body

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Dream Chaser”, p.143, Macmillan

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• The architects who benefit us most maybe those generous enough to lay aside their claims to genius in order to devote themselves to assembling graceful but predominantly unoriginal boxes. Architecture should have the confidence and the kindness to be a little boring.

  Alain de Botton

  Kindness, Order, Should Have

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• In eleven or twelve years of writing, Mike, I can lay claim to at least this: I have never written beneath myself. I have never written anything that I didn't want my name attached to. I have probed deeper in some scripts and I've been more successful in some than others. But all of them that have been on, you know, I'll take my lick. They're mine and that's the way I wanted them.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Successful, Years

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