"We ought always to beware of making the smallest claim for ourselves."
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"Never try to time the bond market. Anyone who claims to know the future of interest rates is certifiable."
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"The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other."
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"Everybody potentially can make the claim that we should all be treated fairly."
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"To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!"
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"and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim us which will we claim how will we go on living how will we touch, what will we know what will we say to each other."
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"Even the worst dictator, there is not a single one of them who would say "Oh yes, I violate human rights." They all claim "oh no, we respect human rights" even when they are doing the most egregious things."
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"What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation."
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"To claim, therefore, inerrancy for the King James Version, or even for the Revised Version, is to claim inerrancy for men who never professed it for themselves."
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"Life finds its wealth by the claims of the world, and its worth by the claims of love."
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"I understand that the legal position is under review in South Africa and that there will soon be a broader set of organizations to which donors can give and claim tax deductions."
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"Beautiful and diabolical. You make me impatient indeed to claim you."
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"This is a new day. Begin anew to claim and create all that is good"
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"The only secret I can claim to have is concentration, and that's something that can't be taught."
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"I think religion should be treated with ridicule, hatred and contempt, and I claim that right."
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"Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion."
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"Every claim creates an obligation."
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"We have to claim anarchy and realize that systems have a life of their own that is anti-humanist. There is definitely an anti-humanist tendency in all systems."
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"Truths open to everyone, and the claims aren't all staked yet."
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"I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!"
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