"I claim to be no more than an average man with below average capabilities."
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"Science makes no claim to infallibility; it leaves that claim to be made by theologians."
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"Not all Scripture is propositional, some of it is asking questions, some of it's rhetorical, but where Scripture is stating something, asserting something, making a truth claim, uttering a proposition that is claiming to be true, it is the truth."
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"Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation."
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"If God exists, how can we lay claim to freedom, since He is its beginning and its end?"
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"Don't claim you're sincere, just be it."
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"Extraordinary claim requires extraordinary proof."
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"The claim that somehow raw foods give you better energy, are more healthful, improve your immune system and all of that is simply not substantiated. And moreover, it's not biologically plausible."
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"We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions."
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"Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves."
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"Moral claims aren't, as a class, truth-value apt or not."
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"Claims like 'Slavery is wrong' are not fully common-sensical, so they must be at least partly theoretical."
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"Exceptional claims, require exceptional evidence."
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"If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique."
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"To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save."
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"If WE claim only reasonable probability, it will be as much as men who love the truth can ever at any given moment hope to have within their grasp."
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"It wasn't his, it wasn't my fault, we both had nothing except patience, but Death has none. I saw him come (how meanly!) and I watched him as he took and took: none of it I could claim as mine."
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"Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure."
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"We don't have rights until we claim them."
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"What I understand about this concept of why is that it functions exactly the same way as parenting or exercise or any of these things we claim to invest in."
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