"Why, then, do I continue to claim that creationism isn't science? Simply because these relatively few statements have been tested and conclusively refuted."
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"The only universal attribute of scientific statements resides in their potential fallibility. If a claim cannot be disproven, it does not belong to the enterprise of science."
"God, come down, if you're really there - Well, you're the one who claims to care!"
"True democracy is not inconsistent with a few persons representing the spirit, the hope and the aspirations of those whom they claim to represent."
"The safest rule of conduct is to claim kinship when we want to do service and not to insist on kinship when we want to assert a right."
"I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people."
"And whilst he may not claim superiority by reason of learning, I myself must not withold that meed of homage that learning, wherever it resides, always commands."
"Men in prison are "civilly dead" and have no claim to any say in policy."
"Many persons claiming different faiths make us one and an indivisible nation. All these have an equal claim to be the nationals of India."
"The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence."
"I shall claim full amends for every fall and stubbed toe, if you do not lead us well."
"Publicly, they claim to be thrilled to have the opportunity to engage directly with their customers; privately, they suspect, maybe even fervently hope, that Facebook and its spawn are fads."
"I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer."
"We, we live! ours are the hours, and the living have their claims."
"For that is love's nature that it lays claim to exclusive right and that all other claims are nil."
"There were other auto manufacturers that were confabulating as much as [Buckminster Fuller] was, making claims about how cars resembled this or that aspect of nature."
"I don't claim to say, "All black women are like me," because they're not."