#claim

Along the way I stopped into a coffee shop. All around me normal, everyday city types were going about their normal, everyday affairs. Lovers were whispering to each other, businessmen were poring over spread sheets, college kids were planning their next ski trip and discussing the new Police album. We could have been in any city in Japan. Transplant this coffee shop scene to Yokohama or Fukuoka and nothing would seem out of place. In spite of which -- or, rather, all the more because -- here I was, sitting in this coffee shop, drinking my coffee, feeling a desperate loneliness. I alone was the outsider. I had no place here. Of course, by the same token, I couldn't really say I belonged to Tokyo and its coffee shops. But I had never felt this loneliness there. I could drink my coffee, read my book, pass the time of day without any special thought, all because I was part of the regular scenery. Here I had no ties to anyone. Fact is, I'd come to reclaim myself. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#coffee-shops #loneliness #normality #outsider #reclaim

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

— Lewis J. Bates

#claim #day #hidden #his #known

The left claims that Republicans hate Hispanics, which is just the most ludicrous thing I've ever heard, and the right just claims all we need to do is close the borders and do nothing else, which is also ridiculous. ↗

— Raul Labrador

#borders #claims #close #else #ever

The prophets, who were very many, proclaim and declare the one God; for, being filled with the inspiration of the one God, they predicted things to come, with agreeing and harmonious voice. ↗

— Lactantius

#being #come #declare #filled #god

The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our democracy and this is what today is all about. ↗

— Barbara Lee

#democracy #elections #last #our #reclaim

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

#board #claims #come #consumer #get

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

#act #both #claims #contests #each

If our republican form of government is perishing because communications - the infrastructure of that republic - is under the yoke of international business how, at last, do we save it? We must build a confrontational movement to reclaim our democracy, a movement committed to active and sustained protest against the present order. ↗

— Mark Lloyd

#against #because #build #business #committed

Actually, I didn't make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that philosophy, so they started saying that. I didn't bring that up, actually. ↗

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

#bring #claim #design #felt #follows

All I claimed was that when a drastic change occurs, it occurs in a relatively small and isolated population. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#claimed #drastic #drastic change #i #isolated