#claimed

I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil. ↗

— Uri Geller

#because #bent #claimed #contraceptive #her

Everybody seized upon a bit of the beast. The Sultan claimed the liver, which, when dried and powdered, is worth twice its weight in gold as medicine. ↗

— Isabella Bird

#bit #claimed #dried #everybody #gold

For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and Israeli. ↗

— John Conyers

#children #civilian #claimed #decades #east

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#claimed #everything #happens #right #war

The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

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By the time I came out, that kind of stopped it. The bullying stopped when I claimed myself and proved that I wasn't afraid. A lot of it was when I was hiding when I was younger. ↗

— Randy Harrison

#bullying #by the time #came #claimed #hiding

I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#conduct #even #good #guarantee #i

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death. ↗

— Edmund Spenser

#death #else #genius #monuments #outlive

It just took all of that to come to a screeching halt, to get to the point of having nothing, for me to finally realize, Hey, what are you fighting with this for? Until then, I hadn't claimed my faith as my own; I had just grown up with it. ↗

— Scott Stapp

#come #faith #fighting #finally #get

Whoopi and I have been friends ever since she claimed she couldn't sing on the set of Sister Act. ↗

— Jenifer Lewis

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