#claims

There are two types of claims: those based on hard numbers and those based on slippery numbers. ↗

— Simon Sinek

#claims #hard #numbers #slippery #those

In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex. ↗

— Marguerite Gardiner

#attention #claims #does #expose #forget

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium. ↗

— Albert Camus

#barbarous #because #been #centuries #check

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

— Franz von Papen

#conceivable #gain #government #itself #majority

I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr. Zavos can clone a human being. This seems to be yet another one of his claims to get publicity. ↗

— Robert Winston

#any #being #claims #clone #credible

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#civil #civil disobedience #claims #consciously #disobedience

Our work in Britain suggests that radicalization is driven by an ideology which claims that Muslims around the world are being oppressed and - and this is the key bit of the argument - which then legitimizes violence in their supposed defense. ↗

— Pauline Neville-Jones

#around #being #bit #britain #claims

People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#because #claims #clash #connections #empirical

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#claims #gives #never #science #searching

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

#breadth #claims #commitment #contract #declaration