Claim Quotes
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You need only claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality. When at last age has assembled you together, will it not be easy to let it all go, lived, balanced, over?
Florida Scott-Maxwell
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He who cannot by his labor suffice for his own support has no claim to the privilege of helping himself to the money of others. By becoming dependent on the remaining members of the community for actual subsistence, he abdicates his claim to equal rights for them I other respects.
John Stuart Mill
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May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?
Plato
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She recognized that this city was a place that granted you only what you were willing to claim.
Earl Lovelace
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Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
John Locke Nazareth
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I will claim the soul of The Undertaker
Windham Rotunda
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I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.
Emily Dickinson
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Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.
Albert Camus
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The loss of transcendence has left in its wake the flotsam of distrustful, cynical Christians, angry at a capricious God, and the jetsam of smug bibilolatrists who claim to know precisely what God is thinking and exactly what he plans to do.
Brennan Manning
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It [the Sudetenland] is the last territorial claim that I have to make in Europe.
Adolf Hitler
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If any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority and without such consent of the people, he thereby invades the fundamental law of property, and subverts the end of government.
John Locke Nazareth
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He asks from men all that he has in himself, though even lions would not claim to match that.
Al-Mutanabbi
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My rejection at the Salon brought an end to my hesitation [to settle in Paris] since after this failure I can no longer claim to cope... alas, that fatal rejection has virtually taken the bread out of my mouth.
Claude Monet
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To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.
Bernard Crick
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When good thing are accomplished, it does not claim (or name) them. This is Te, which is close in meaning to power or virtue. It is something within a person, and it is enhanced by following the Tao, or 'that from which nothing can deviate'.
Lao Tzu
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To be born in that city is useful for only one thing: to have always known, almost instinctively, what today, with endless fine distinctions, everyone is beginning to claim: that the dream of unlimited progress is in reality a nightmare of savagery and death.
Elena Ferrante
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We don't claim to be infallible. I don't claim to be giving you truths from on high.
Adam Conover
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Many persons claiming different faiths make us one and an indivisible nation. All these have an equal claim to be the nationals of India.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I make no claim to be an authority on writing or illustrating for children.
Hugh Lofting
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Where do any of the ancient sources speak of a divine man who was crucified as an atonement for sin? So far as I know, there are no parallels to this central Christian claim.
Bart Ehrman
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You need to claim the events of your life to make yourself yours.
Anne Wilson Schaef
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People who never seen to learn claim the government can be made more efficient.
James Cook
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Let be the future: mind the present need and leave the rest to whom the rest concerns ... present tasks claim our care: the ordering of the future rests where it should rest.
Sophocles