#claims

The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence. ↗

— Robert Rainy

#claims #embody #frequent #high #impressive

I had made a decision early on that we were going to do the right things and that if they worked we were going to be very successful. And if for some reason they didn't, all the claims and the protestations and the excuses wouldn't make any difference. ↗

— John Engler

#claims #decision #difference #early #excuses

It would be a mind-boggling endeavor to try to identify each individual who claims to have been a survivor of victimization during this period of 24 years. ↗

— Jose Ramos-Horta

#claims #during #each #endeavor #identify

Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

#century #claims #clarified #concept #deal

I'm obviously not a rapper, and I don't have any claims to be one, really. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#claims #i #obviously #rapper #really

One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard to get and just aren't available for regular people like you and I. ↗

— Matthew Lesko

#board #claims #come #consumer #get

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#act #both #claims #contests #each

Tom Cruise's attorney said he is going to sue anyone who claims he is gay. In a related story, Ricky Martin's attorney has been hospitalized for exhaustion. ↗

— Conan O'Brien

#attorney #been #claims #cruise #exhaustion

Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts. ↗

— Elihu Root

#case #circumstances #claims #depend #disputed

Dull would be the man who should merely tolerate this plan of social industry. Weak would be the position of him who should take an apologetic tone in defending it, or present its claims in a merely negative way, by exposing the evils and perils of the socialistic plan. ↗

— John Bates Clark

#claims #defending #dull #evils #exposing