“ To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified. ”
- William James- Copy
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“ The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour. ”
- Frederic Raphael- Copy
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“ In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many. ”
- Adam Ferguson- Copy
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“ We've got to have it stopped,... I don't know if these allegations are true or not, but they have to be investigated. ”
- John McCain- Copy
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“ We also recognize the damage that can be done by the allegations alone, if they're not true, or if there's some explanation of some sort. But, that's the world we live in. ”
- Donald Rumsfeld- Copy
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“ The words 'I am…' are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you. ”
- A.L. Kitselman- Copy
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“ The words `I am…' are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you. ”
- A.L. Kitselman- Copy
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“ Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. ”
- Michael Crichton- Copy
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“ Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ The words "I am…" are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you. ”
- A.L. Kitselman- Copy
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“ A vast chasm separates objective, constructive criticism, which emanates from concern for the higher national good, from attempts at slander and defamation. Pluralism does not permit any side to claim a monopoly on truth. No side may claim for itself the sole prerogative to confer the quality of good citizenship… ”
- King Hussein I- Copy
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“ Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself. ”
- Robert Ingersoll- Copy
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“ No good poem, however confessional is may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster? ”
- Cecil Day Lewis- Copy
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“ Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. ”
- Robert Ingersoll- Copy
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“ You can forget a lot of things, but you cannot forget a woman's name and claim to love her. ”
- Real Live Preacher- Copy
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“ You need only claim the event 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. ”
- Florida Scott Maxwell- Copy
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“ I have made mistakes, but have never made the mistake of claiming I never made one. ”
- James G. Bennet- Copy
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“ All humans are hypocrites; the biggest hypocrite of all is the one who claims to detest hypocrisy. ”
- Peter Wastholm- Copy
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“ A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image. ”
- Joan Didion- Copy
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“ A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery. ”
- Morris Bender- Copy
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“ And then, Sir, there is this consideration, that if the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now! ”
- Thomas F. Healey- Copy
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