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claim
«A place in thy memory, dearest, Is all that I claim; To pause and look back when thou hearest The sound of my name»
«Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
| About:
Creativity,
Criticism,
Evolution
| Keywords:
charge, claim, creationist, creationists, critics, evolution, nonsense, properly, rhetorical, scientific, subject, tested, viewed
«France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are ''made in America.''»
«All the privilege I claim for my own sex . . . is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.»
«Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.»
Author: Woodrow T. Wilson
(President)
| About:
Genius,
Perseverance
| Keywords:
brightness, claim, extra, perseverance
«And what is the state but a servant and a convenience for a large number of people, just like the electric light and the plumbing system? And wouldn't it be preposterous to claim that men must exist for their plumbing, not the plumbing for the men.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
An electric, claim, convenience, conveniences, electric, electric light, large number, large numbers, number, plumb, plumbed, plumbing, plumbing system, preposterous, servant, system, The Men, The State
«Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| Keywords:
absolutely, Absolutely Free, arises, claim, democracy, equal, equally, notion, respects
«??when the whole group is together, each brining out all that is best, wisest, or funniest in all the others. Those are the golden sessions?when the whole world, and something beyond the world, opens itself to our minds as we talk; and no one has any claim on or any responsibility for another, but all are freedmen and equals as if we had first met an hour ago, while at the same time an Affection mellowed by the years enfolds us. Life- natural life- has no better gift to give.?»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
affection, ago, at the same time, claim, enfold, enfolded, enfolding, equals, First Group, funniest, golden, group, meeting of minds, mellows, natural world, opens, Sessions, The Others, wisest
«A free people claim their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their magistrate.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Right
| Keywords:
claim, derived, free people, Laws, Laws of nature, magistrate, rights, The Gift, the laws of nature
«First, you know, a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Theory
| Keywords:
absurd, admitted, adversaries, attacked, claim, insignificant, obvious