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• I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.

  A. B. Yehoshua

  Thinking, Losing, Capacity

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• Never claim credit for anything. 'Cause you can't righteously do that. There's luck and grace and accident.

  Harrison Ford

  Grace, Luck, Credit

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• Al Gore announced Tuesday that he plans to launch a 24-hour cable news network for young adults. Gore claims he's been wanting to do this since he invented cable TV in the 1990s.

  Tina Fey

  Tuesday, Adults, News

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• Collectivism takes on many guises and seldom uses its own real name. Words like 'community' and 'social' soothe us into thinking that collectivist decision-making is somehow higher and nobler than individual or 'selfish' decision-making. But the cold fact is that communities do not make decisions. Individuals who claim to speak for the community impose their decisions on us all.

  Doug Bandow

  Real, Selfish, Thinking

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• I'm starting to like muggers more than congressmen. At least the muggers don't claim they're doing you a favor.

  Paul Jacob

  Doing You, Muggers, Favors

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• I think synergies are a lot like UFOs: Lots of people claim to have seen them, but few can actually prove they exist.

  Bethany McLean

  Thinking, People, Synergy

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• It's often the case that when a critic uses an embarrassingly accurate term to describe what a wrong-doer is doing, the wrong-doer protests: "Why don't you use my white-washed, conscience-soothing euphemism?" Such euphemisms, they claim, help promote "civilized debate."

  Steve Kangas

  White, Use, Doers

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• Some members of Congress will claim that the federal government needs the power to monitor Americans in order to allow the government to operate more efficiently. I would remind my colleagues that, in a constitutional republic, the people are never asked to sacrifice their liberties to make the jobs of government officials easier.

  Ron Paul

  Jobs, Sacrifice, Government

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• Academic environments are generally characterised by the presence of peole who claim to understand more than in fact they do. Linguistic Philosophy has produced a great revolution, generating people who claim not to understand when in fact they do. Some achieve great virtuosity at it. Any beginner in philosophy can manage not to understand, say, Hegel, but I have heard people who were so advanced that they knew how not to understand writers of such limpid clarity as Bertrand Russell or A.J. Ayer.

  Ernest Gellner

  Philosophy, People, Revolution

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• Success and social promotion are not some right that anybody can claim after queuing at some [government office]. It is better: it is a right, a right that one can merit because of one's sweat.

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  Government, Sweat, Office

  Summer meeting of the Young Populars in La Baule, September 04, 2005.

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• Faith is making claims to victory before it is achieved.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Victory

  Robert H. Schuller (1988). “Living Positively One Day at a Time”, Berkley

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• It's curious that only in Washington can you spend $2 billion and claim that you're saving money.

  Rand Paul

  Saving, Curious, Billions

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• The cross of Christ is the all-sufficient ground for the salvation of sinners. It claims to be sturdy enough to support the whole weight of our guilt all by itself. Therefore, to boast in the cross properly at all is to boast in the cross alone.

  Philip Graham Ryken

  Support, Guilt, Weight

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• So immense are the claims on a mother, physical claims on her bodily and brain vigor, and moral claims on her heart and thoughts, that she cannot ... meet them all and find any large margin beyond for other cares and work. She serves the community in the very best and highest way it is possible to do, by giving birth to healthy children, whose physical strength has not been defrauded, and to whose moral and mental nature she can give the whole of her thoughts.

  Frances Power Cobbe

  Mother, Children, Heart

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• Different groups are differentially vulnerable to advertising; and their vulnerability varies not so much with the character or quantity of advertisements as with the informational resources they can claim by age, education, station in life, and government guarantees of consumer protection.

  Michael Schudson

  Character, Government, Age

  Michael Schudson (2013). “Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society”, p.16, Routledge

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• It’s not fair. People claim to know you through the things you’ve done, and not by sitting down and listening to you speak for yourself.

  Hannah Kent

  People, Listening, Sitting Down

  Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.78, Pan Macmillan

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• An important distinction can be made between religion and spirituality. Religion [is] concerned with faith in the claims to salvation of one faith tradition... Spirituality is concerned with qualities of the human spirit, love and compassion, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, contentment, a sense of responsibility, a sense of harmony, that bring happiness both to self.

  Dalai Lama

  Responsibility, Compassion, Self

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• Do not look back to the past, nor forward to the future. Claim only the present, for it holds God's will.

  Rose Philippine Duchesne

  Past, Looks, God's Will

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• Science makes no claim to infallibility; it leaves that claim to be made by theologians.

  John Burroughs

  Made, Theologian, Infallibility

  John Burroughs (1900). “Writings: The light of day”

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• One who lays claim to special privilege through the priesthood doesn't understand the nature of his authority.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Special, Privilege, Authority

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• When your claim to be victims of secularism rests on Wal-Mart greeters wishing shoppers Happy Holidays, you are clearly a bunch of great big babies.

  Katha Pollitt

  Baby, Holiday, Wish

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• You only have to glance at the daily news to see how passions are stirred by claims of exclusive loyalty to one's own kin, one's own clan, one's own country, and one's own church. These ties that bind are vital to our communities and our lives, but they can also be twisted into a noose.

  Bill Moyers

  Loyalty, Country, Passion

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• When I need journalistic honesty, I have to turn to Al Jazeera, why is that? One cannot even deny the Holocaust in Europe, question 9/11 in America (unless you want the Ward Churchill treatment), but the West claims they're all about free speech.

  Remi Kanazi

  Honesty, America, Europe

  "What Would Jesus Do?". www.informationclearinghouse.info. February 4, 2006.

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