#claimed

Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have earned their adherents a well-deserved F in any freshman economics (or earth science) class. ↗

— Eric Alterman

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Perhaps we would do well to listen to the likes of Rabbi Harold Kushner, who contends that God is not really as powerful as we have claimed. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#god #harold #likes #listen #perhaps

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

#central #claimed #clearer #comprehension #does

The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims. ↗

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

#millions #second #second world war #tens #victims

I claimed identity as Jewish musicians for political reasons, because most of us were touring in Germany and, at this time, twelve years ago, there was a strong resurgence of Nazism in the places we were touring and part of that was on the music scene. ↗

— Marc Ribot

#because #claimed #germany #i #identity

But then Iraq happened after September 2001 and America claimed that Al Qaeda was there, and we all know that was a lie and we now know that our own Prime Minister deceived the country terribly. ↗

— Clare Short

#al #america #claimed #country #deceived

Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#choose #his #inexorably #lying #method

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#forced #his #inevitably #lie #man

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#been #claimed #dictatorship #facilitates #modern

Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#country #generally #his #johnson #men