#claim

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

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In Afghanistan, this is the problem, because everybody holds a piece of that mirror, and they all look at it and claim that they hold the entire truth. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

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It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament and claims the government for itself. ↗

— Franz von Papen

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We decline the claim to power by parties which want to own their followers body and soul, and which want to put themselves over and above the whole nation. ↗

— Franz von Papen

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Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. ↗

— Robert Runcie

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What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

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I don't claim that our TV comedies are highbrow in anyway, but I think there's a basis to them, and that's why they're more popular than other TV comedies. There's a basis of truth in them, a gut feeling. ↗

— Adrian Edmondson

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She claimed she loved the camera, its warmth, its familiarity. She responded to its naked glare, its slavish attention to every expression of her face and body, with the kind of immediacy a trusted lover could expect. ↗

— Anne Edwards

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My life is like an autumn leaf I lie around unclaimed. The breeze blows me around, To be trampled under the feet of men. Natures cruel feast has bestowed me with pain, Pain of being a part, Just a part of someone. Pain of departing, Departing from that one. Pick me up like a rose, And hold me to your heart. Keep me there till he does not come. And when he comes do a good deed, Dig the earth below, And bury me deep For I don't want to lie around, Unclaimed, unloved. ↗

— Amit Abraham

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All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

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