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There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.
Textbooks are written in an oracular monotone, so that they claim to be true and important.
Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.
Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure.
I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.
I don't regard the real and true and authentic as something to claim as a moral high ground.
To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.
Democrats all claim they'll get rough with the terrorists, but they can't even face Brit Hume.
We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.
I think religion should be treated with ridicule, hatred and contempt, and I claim that right.
Christianity is a very historical religion - it makes specific claims that are open to testing.
If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.
The claim that American women are downtrodden and unfairly treated is the fraud of the century.
When people feel a certain religion claims to have all the answers, that's what turns them off.
All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.
There are two types of claims: those based on hard numbers and those based on slippery numbers.
If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique.
Consumers have to understand that the purpose of these claims is to get them to buy the product.
In the culture of pluralism...the only thing that cannot be tolerated is a claim to exclusivity.
The only secret I can claim to have is concentration, and that's something that can't be taught.
I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ.
It's curious that only in Washington can you spend $2 billion and claim that you're saving money.
To be an aritst is not to wait for others to define us, but to define ourselves, claim our lives.
A nation that will not enforce its laws has no claim to the respect and allegiance of its people.
Sometimes I claim I write because I put in an application at Sears and they've never called back.
Everybody claims they have relatable, connectable characters, but those claims often aren't true.
The moment that one person in an argument claims to be God, dialogue and debate become impossible.
Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.
I dont claim to be a journalist. I hold myself to higher standards of transparency and disclosure.
None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.
For that is love's nature that it lays claim to exclusive right and that all other claims are nil.
The claims of Christ are always on trial, and we remain under oath! We are his witnesses for truth.
These vicious claims about me of inappropriate conduct with women are totally and absolutely false.
No veteran should have to wait for claims. If there's anybody impatient here, I am that individual.
This is why I respect those who are curious about God, but I beware of those who claim to find Him.
To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.
Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.
Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
My credibility is zero. My wife claims she can go before any judge at any time and have me committed.
But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.
We live in a culture where the truth claims of Christianity are not only rejected, they are ridiculed.
Besides, if you are who you claim to be, that makes you my true queen. Therefore, you have my loyalty.
They had bombed and burned,killed and maimed,plundered and looted.Now they had come to claim the land.
We are firm believers of the paranormal, but we believe over 80 percent of all claims can be disproved.
What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.
There is much, of course, in the exclusive claims of Christianity which make it hostile to other faiths.
If news is not really news unless it is bad news, it may be difficult to claim we are an informed nation
Do not look back to the past, nor forward to the future. Claim only the present, for it holds God's will.
Never try to time the bond market. Anyone who claims to know the future of interest rates is certifiable.