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“Human rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of POWs under the Geneva Conventions.”

“Among the words that can be all things to all men, the word "race" has a fair claim to being the most common, most ambiguous and most explosive. No one today would deny that it is one of the great catchwords about which ink and blood are spilled in reckless quantities. Yet no agreement seems to exist about what race means.”

Men Mean Seems Today Common Race Blood Fairs All Things Claims Deny Agreement Quantity Ink Reckless Ambiguous Explosives

Book:Race: a study in superstition

Source: Race: a study in superstition

“Western countries allow no freedom of expression, which they claim to advocate, with regard to the myth of the massacre of Jews known as the holocaust, and nobody in the West enjoys the freedom of expression to deny it or raise doubts about it.”

Country Enjoy Known Doubt Expression Claims Regard Raises West Western Jew Deny Myth Billions Holocaust Freedom Of Expression Sanctity Massacres

Author:Ali Khamenei

“Though we claim to believe the whole of Scripture, in practice we frequently deny much of it by ignoring it.”

Believe Whole Practice Claims Deny Scripture

Book:Studies in the Sermon on the Mount

Source: Studies in the Sermon on the Mount

“When I need journalistic honesty, I have to turn to Al Jazeera, why is that? One cannot even deny the Holocaust in Europe, question 9/11 in America (unless you want the Ward Churchill treatment), but the West claims they're all about free speech.”

Want Needs America Turns Honesty Speech Europe Claims West Deny Treatment Als Holocaust Free Speech Journalistic

Author:Remi Kanazi

“This is not to deny that there are versions of theism that do conflict with evolutionary biology. Young Earth Creationism is an example; it claims that God created life on earth within the past 10,000 to 50,000 years. But other types of theism are different.”

Years Different Earth Past Young Example Type Conflict Claims Deny Versions Biology Theism Creationism Evolutionary Biology

Author:Elliott Sober

“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”

Source: The Virtue of Selfishness

“We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny.”

Trying Humans Church Ideals Claims Institutions Deny This Life Distinctive

Book:Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church

Source: Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church

“There are the those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity.”

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Author:Katherine Dunn

“If one chooses sides on emotion then the rebel is the guy to go with. He is fighting for everything men claim to honour, freedom, independance, truth, the right.......all the subjective illusions. All the eternal trigger words. We are minions of the villan of the piece. We confess the illusion and deny the substance.”

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Book:Chronicles of the Black Company

Source: Chronicles of the Black Company

“We mustn't claim to stand for our King but then deny Him by living a fleshly existence. Our King's Mighties don't shy away from the blazing searchlight of God's Word, but rather, willingly expose their souls and cry, 'Dear King, if there be anything that stands between You and me, if there be anything that shrouds Your glory, if there be anything that will weaken my sword in battle, purge it, slay it, utterly destroy it!”

Ifs Soul Existence Cry Kings Battle Glory Claims Dear Deny Shy Blazing Shrouds Between You And Me

Book:Wrestling Prayer: A Passionate Communion with God

Source: Wrestling Prayer: A Passionate Communion with God

“Sometimes our connection is frayed, it is in danger, it seems almost lost. Views and streets deny knowledge of us, the air grows thin. Wouldn't we rather have a destiny to submit to, than, something that claims us, anything, instead of such flimsy choices, arbitrary days?”

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Book:Open Secrets

Source: Open Secrets

“Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.”

Freedom Interesting Liberty Rights Citizens Exercise Claims Deny Libertarian Libertarianism Weakening Constitutional Rights

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower