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One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The other claims that when money ebbs, so do prospects for women.

Jerry Saltz

Artist, House, Female

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Jesus cannot be just liked. His claims make us either kill him or crown him.

Timothy Keller

Jesus, Crowns

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We live in a culture where the truth claims of Christianity are not only rejected, they are ridiculed.

R. C. Sproul

Culture, Christianity, Rejected

Twitter post from May 4, 2017

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If the Bible is what it claims to be, how can we allow it to remain on a bookshelf?

Steven J Lawson

Bookshelves, Ifs

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In the culture of pluralism...the only thing that cannot be tolerated is a claim to exclusivity.

R. C. Sproul

Culture, Pluralism, Exclusivity

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People who never seen to learn claim the government can be made more efficient.

James Cook

Government, People, Made

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America's universities are filled with economically ignorant haters of the free market, so university campuses have become major forums for union denunciations of such companies as Nike, Wal-mart, and others. Faculty and students claim to be concerned about 'social justice,' but they are simply being used as dupes by unions who are not at all concerned with justice of any sort. Rather, their main concern is increasing the coffers of union treasuries by driving non-union competitors from the market.

Thomas DiLorenzo

Nike, America, Justice

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Infidelity and skepticism abound everywhere. In one form or another they are to be found in every rank and class of society. Thousands are not ashamed to say that they regard the Bible as an old obsolete Jewish book, which has no special claim on our faith and obedience, and that it contains many inaccuracies and defects. In a day like this, the true Christian should be able to set his foot down firmly, and to render a reason of his confidence in God's Word. He should be able by sound arguments to show good cause why he thinks the Bible is from heaven, and not of men.

J. C. Ryle

Christian, Book, Men

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It always seemed, and still seems, ridiculously simple to say that if one can acquire a diversified group of common stocks at a price less than the applicable net current assets alone - after deducting all prior claims, and counting as zero the fixed and other assets - the results should be quite satisfactory.

Benjamin Graham

Zero, Simple, Groups

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It is this claim to a monopoly of meaning, rather than any special scientific doctrine, that makes science and religion look like competitors today. Scientism emerged not as the conclusion of scientific argument but as a chosen element in a worldview - a vision that attracted people by its contrast with what went before - which is, of course, how people very often do make such decisions, even ones that they afterwards call scientific.

Mary Midgley

People, Decision, Vision

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We don't claim to have perfect morals, but at least we have a huge area of things that, while legal, are beneath us. We won't do them. Currently, there's a culture in Americathat says that anything that won't send you to prison is OK.

Charlie Munger

Perfect, Culture, Moral

Charlie Munger's comments on Berkshire Hathaway at the 2004 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 1, 2004.

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The reason we avoid the word 'synergy' is because people generally claim more synergistic benefits than will come. Yes, it exists, but there are so many false promises.Berkshire is full of synergies - we don't avoid synergies, just claims of synergies.

Charlie Munger

People, Promise, Benefits

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So bitcoin gives us an opportunity to reclaim the power of the people to say yes or no to what the government claims that it wants to do.

Stefan Molyneux

Opportunity, Government, People

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It is certain that success naturally confirms in us a favourable opinion of our own abilities. Scarce any man is willing to allot to accident, friendship, and a thousand causes, which concur in every event without human contrivance or interposition, the part which they may justly claim in his advancement. We rate ourselves by our fortune rather than our virtues, and exorbitant claims are quickly produced by imaginary merit.

Samuel Johnson

Men, Events, May

Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.68

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When one turns from reason to faith, when one rejects the absolutism of reality, one undercuts the absolutism of one's consciousness - and one's mind becomes an organ one cannot trust any longer. It becomes what the mystics claim it to be: a tool of distortion.

Ayn Rand

Reality, Mind, Absolutism

Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.35, Penguin

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To design an easy-to-use interface, pay attention to what users do, not what they say. Self-reported claims are unreliable, as are user speculations about future behavior.

Jakob Nielsen

Self, Design, Pay

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And whilst he may not claim superiority by reason of learning, I myself must not withold that meed of homage that learning, wherever it resides, always commands.

Mahatma Gandhi

May, Reason, Command

Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.209, Penguin Books India

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When governments claim to derive their authority from any source other than the governed, it always leads to the destruction of liberty.

G. Edward Griffin

Government, Liberty, Authority

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In shamanism and certain yogas, Taoist yoga, claim very clearly that the purpose is to familiarize yourself with this after-death body, in life, and then the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche. You will recognize what is happening. You will know what to do. And you will make the clean break.

Terence McKenna

Yoga, Confusion, Dying

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The psychedelic experience is the beginning of the spiritual path. That's why it's not important that yogas' claim that they can deliver you the psychedelic experience, because it begins with the psychedelic experience, and then you go from there.

Terence McKenna

Spiritual, Yoga, Important

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As places of learning, schools have a responsibility to also educate on nutrition, which we all can agree is far more important than algebra, no matter what your third-period teacher claims.

Lynda Resnick

Teacher, Responsibility, School

"Bringing the Food Revolution to Our Schools". Interview with Lynda Resnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.

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Men in prison are "civilly dead" and have no claim to any say in policy.

Mahatma Gandhi

Men, Prison, Policy

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But what, after all, is faith? It is a state of mind that leads people to believe something - it doesn't matter what - in the total absence of supporting evidence. If there were good supporting evidence then faith would be superfluous, for the evidence would compel us to believe it anyway. It is this that makes the often-parroted claim that 'evolution itself is a matter of faith' so silly. People believe in evolution not because they arbitrarily want to believe it but because of overwhelming, publicly available evidence.

Richard Dawkins

Believe, Silly, People

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And speaking of sex, the Immaculate Conception does not mean Jesus was conceived in the absence of sex. It means Mary was conceived without Original Sin. That's all it has ever meant. And according to the tabloids, Mary is apparently the only one who can make such a claim. The Jesus thing is called virgin birth.

George Carlin

Jesus, Sex, Mean

George Carlin (2007). “The Best of Brain Droppings”, p.62, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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We have lived in a world where the discoveries of physics and genetics are far more awe-inspiring, as well as infinitely more liberating, than the claims of any religion.

Christopher Hitchens

Discovery, World, Physics

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