#claim

The scientific and scholarly community is marked by the belief that the truth is to be found in all; none can claim it as their monopoly. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

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What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to a new social contract, binding on all the Governments of the world. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

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

— Philip Pullman

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I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work. ↗

— Harold Ramis

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I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature. ↗

— Herbert Read

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It is proclaimed by the great leaders of that party, by its political conventions, by its ministers of the Gospel, and by every other means they have of giving currency and importance to the declaration, that it is its mission to abolish slavery in the Union. ↗

— John H. Reagan

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I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I have never made one. ↗

— James Gordon Bennett

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. ↗

— James Branch Cabell

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You can ask any set decorator on any set where I've had to be in an office, I always kind of claim it - I put Post-its everywhere, and I kind of make it look lived-in. ↗

— Anna Chlumsky

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Or even the state of Florida, where they are prepared to execute children. Umm, well, you hope that at least that there is something there to be claimed. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

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