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• In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Party, Civil War

  "Meditation on the DivineWill," ca. 2 Sept. 1862

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• It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament and claims the government for itself.

  Franz von Papen

  Party, Government, Majority

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• Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar.

  Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

  Liars, Lying, World

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• It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which claims to be a solution of the crisis, is itself a symptom and an irritant of the crisis.

  Whittaker Chambers

  World, Facts, Communism

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.7, Regnery Publishing

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• So I cast my lot with Him-not the one who claimed wisdom, Confucius; or the one who claimed enlightenment, Buddha; or the one who claimed to be a prophet, Muhammad, but with the one who claimed to be God in human flesh. The one who declared, 'Before Abraham was born, I am'-and proved it.

  Norman Geisler

  God, Christian, Wisdom

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• You have the right to claim blessing, healing, protection, freedom, deliverance, because He was unjustly nailed to a cross so you could have a life that is fulfilling.

  T. B. Joshua

  Healing, Blessing, Deliverance

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• A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Equality, Government, Liberty

  "Law, Legislation and Liberty" by Friedrich August von Hayek, Vol. 2 : The Mirage of Social Justice, (Ch. 9), 1976.

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• I have to laugh when the English claim they are such a wonderful nation. Everyone knows that Englishmen are really Germans, that the English kings were German, and that in Russia the emperors were either of German origin or received their education in Germany.

  Hermann Goring

  Kings, Russia, Laughing

  Remark on May 28, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• Ignorance of the law of irreducibility was no excuse. I could no longer excuse myself with the claim that I didn't know the law -- for knowledge of self and of the world is the law that, even though unattainable, cannot be broken, and no one can excuse himself by saying that he doesn't know it. . . . The renewed originality of the sin is this: I have to carry out my unknowing, I shall be sinning originally against life.

  Clarice Lispector

  Ignorance, Self, Law

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  They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.

  Sitting Bull

  Mother, Native American, Environmental

  Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”

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• Have you guys ever ghost hunted in Hawaii? No? Well, I have this fat friend... I shouldn't say fat, that might offend him, but he's Samoan and claims to have seen ghosts.

  CM Punk

  Guy, Hawaii, Might

  "Ghost Hunters: Live From the Stanley Hotel". October 31, 2006.

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• I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

  Nat King Cole

  Genius, Loses, Values

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• My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing

  Philip Pullman

  Real, Lying, Writing

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• I claim there ain't Another Saint As great as Valentine.

  Ogden Nash

  Love, Valentines Day, Saint

  Ogden Nash (1933). “Happy Days”

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• I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.

  Sting

  Thinking, Arena, Persons

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• I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Men, Married

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• I cannot explain why they made that sequel to Secret of NIMH. Because they claim that it the original didn't make money, so what was the enthusiasm to make a sequel?

  Don Bluth

  Artist, Secret, Enthusiasm

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• First of all, I can't really claim to be a great chef.

  Martin Yan

  Firsts, Chef, I Can

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• I'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly.

  Jonathan Dimbleby

  Enough, Range, Cases

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• So it was flawed in that it didn't require California to have a first claim on the power plants. It deregulated part of the market, but not all of the market.

  Gray Davis

  California, Firsts, Flaws

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• I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.

  Olympia Dukakis

  Important, Despair, Being Me

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

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• I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent.

  Theodore Bikel

  Purpose, Knowing God, Knows

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• Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another.

  Robert Runcie

  Groups, Assets, Dare

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• Some day Love shall claim his own Some day Right ascend his throne, Some day hidden Truth be known; Some day - some sweet day.

  John L. Bates

  Sweet, Thrones, Truth Is

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• The president's claim that Social Security is going broke is misleading at best. The sky is not falling, although there is no doubt that the system needs to be strengthened.

  Grace Napolitano

  Fall, Sky, Doubt

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