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• I am both stunned and appalled that Pat Robertson would claim to know the mind of God concerning whether particular events... were the judgments of God.

  Richard Land

  Mind, Events, Judgment

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• Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.

  Michael Crichton

  Literature, Matter, Way

  "Consensus Science and the Peer Review" by Jorge R. Barrio, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. April 28, 2009.

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• The truth belongs to those who seek it, not to those who claim to own it.

  Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

  Truth Is

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• For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.

  Lord Byron

  Grief, Past, Grieving

  George Gordon Byron, “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt. Canto I.”

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• A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.

  Joan Didion

  Love, Forever, Shapes

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 19, 2011

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• We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Time, Suffering, Age

  'Sybil' (1845) bk. 6, ch. 13

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• Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Birthday, Justice, Political

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• All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.

  Emma Goldman

  Education, Mind, Accepting

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.29, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Liars, Lying, Mean

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• Tom Cruise's attorney said he is going to sue anyone who claims he is gay. In a related story, Ricky Martin's attorney has been hospitalized for exhaustion.

  Conan O'Brien

  Gay, Suing, Stories

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• Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market.

  Barack Obama

  Pages, Critics, Free Market

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• People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections.

  Steven Pinker

  People, Political, Connections

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• Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Gratitude, Men, Literature

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• First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Dust, Debt, Firsts

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume”, p.231

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• Properly practiced creativity MUST result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent.

  William Bernbach

  Creativity, Design, Swamps

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• An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan

  Stokely Carmichael

  Organization, Voice, Community

  Stokely Carmichael (1966). “What we want”

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• Whoever claims that economic competition represents survival of the fittest in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.

  George Reisman

  Law, Competition, Survival

  "Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics". Book by George Reisman, 1995.

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• I don't expect that the million will ever be won, simply because there is no confirming evidence for any paranormal claims to date.

  James Randi

  Dating, Paranormal, Evidence

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Beauty, Sex, Males

  Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1841). “The Idler in France”, p.44

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• I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Christian, Believe, Doe

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• One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard to get and just aren't available for regular people like you and I.

  Matthew Lesko

  Government, People, Boards

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• The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Education, Culture, Purpose

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• Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.

  Morris Raphael Cohen

  Essence, Religion, Transcendentalism

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• King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Kings, Civil Disobedience, Disobedience

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• Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.

  R. W. Apple

  War, Greatness, President

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