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“I think that anybody who thinks science is going to explain everything in biological systems, or in physical cosmology, et cetera, is actually mistaken, because I think within science - if correctly understood - those claims are not being made.”

Ifs Thinking Made Understood Claims Mistaken Cosmology

Author:George Coyne

“In a very real sense my science does inform my knowledge of God. If you would allow me to say that we never know God, because if I claim that I know God, I know something other than God, because God is not knowable, he is unknowable. So we have to approach it in that sense first, that my knowledge of God is always limited.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Doe Real Approach Claims Knowing God Knowledge Of God

Author:George Coyne

“I'm especially baffled by the idea of taking insurance against a U.S. default. If America defaults, we're talking about a chaotic world - Mad Max, more or less - in which case, who imagines that insurance claims will be honored?”

Ifs World Ideas America Talking Cases Imagine Claims Mad Imagine That Honored Max Chaotic Default Baffled Mad Max

Author:Paul Krugman

“Muslims must learn that if they make belligerent and fanatical claims upon the tolerance of free societies, they will meet the limits of that tolerance.”

Ifs Limits Claims Tolerance Free Society

Author:Sam Harris

“If the tradition which claims that war may be justified does not also admit that it could be unjustified, the affirmation is not morally serious. A Christian who prepares the case for a justified war without being equally prepared for hte negative case has not soberly weighted the prima facie presumption that any violence is wrong until the case for an exception has been made.”

Ifs May Doe Has Beens Made War Christian Cases Violence Serious Negative Tradition Claims Prepared Exception Affirmation Justified Presumption Being Equal Unjustified

Author:John Howard

“How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom? I think it's a lie - people claim they want to be free - everybody insists that freedom is what they want the most, the most sacred and precious thing a man can possess. But that's bullshit! People are terrified to be set free - they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It's their securityHow can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don't really want to be free?”

People Ifs Thinking Men Want Trying Lying Fighting Break Claims Sacred Chains Guts Bullshit Terrified Precious Things

Author:Jim Morrison

“Judge not, before you judge yourself. Judge not, if you're not ready for judgment. The Road of life is rocky and you may stumble too, so while you talk about me, someone else is judging you.”

Ifs Knows May Hands Life Is Perfect Music Ready Judging Judgment Claims Clean Fingers Not Perfect Not Ready I'm Not Perfect Judging You

Author:Bob Marley

“I cannot claim to thoroughly enjoy coaching, because it is very hard work if you are even moderately conscientious. Nevertheless it does provide a degree of satisfaction - not to mention a steady income, which is why I do it occasionally.”

Ifs Doe Hard Enjoy Hard Work Degrees Claims Satisfaction Coaches Chess Income Coaching Steady Nevertheless

Author:Nigel Short

“If we cannot claim to live sinless lives, then the only thing that can keep us from despairing before a holy God is that we have an Advocate in heaven and He pleads our case not on the basis of our perfection but of His propitiation.”

Ifs Heaven Cases Holy Perfection Bases Claims Holy God Propitiation

Author:John Piper

“Simply according artistic works the same protection as nonartistic works may not be sufficient to protect creativity. After all, the very essence of artistic expression is invention and artists necessarily draw on their own experience. But if the rules of liability are unclear, artists will not be able to know how much disguise is sufficient to protect their claims from the claims of those who may see themselves in the portrayals.”

“Even the most elitist director or author who claims that he doesn't care if his works are seen or not, then I have to think that he's either a liar or a hypocrite.”

Ifs Thinking Care Directors Claims Liars Hypocrite Elitist He Doesn't Care

Author:Michael Haneke

“If a person claims to have met Jesus without being changed then they have not met the real Jesus.”

Ifs Persons Real Jesus Changed Mets Claims

Author:Peter Kreeft

“...academic credentials are neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for having your ideas taken seriously. If a famous professor repeatedly says stupid things, then tries to claim he never said them, there's no rule against calling him a mendacious idiot - and no special qualifications required to make that pronouncement other than doing your own homework.Conversely, if someone without formal credentials consistently makes trenchant, insightful observations, he or she has earned the right to be taken seriously, regardless of background.”

“Over the pope as expression of the binding claim of ecclesiastical authority, there stands one's own conscience which must be obeyed before all else, even if necessary against the requirement of ecclesiastical authority.”

Ifs Expression Authority Conscience Claims Pope Requirements Binding

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience promptly fills. If it were widely understood that claims to knowledge require adequate evidence before they can be accepted, there would be no room for pseudoscience.”

Ifs Doe Would Be Poor Rooms Wonder Understood Evidence Claims Accepted Abandon Soar Adequate Niche Ecological Sense Of Wonder Pseudoscience

Book:Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“Change always follows the same pattern. If you come up with something new they try and put you off.If that doesn't work they call you stark raving bonkers.If that doesn't work they lock you up like the suffragettes.Then, after a pause, the change happensand you can't find anyone that doesn't claim to have been fighting for it with you.”

Ifs Trying Has Beens Fighting Claims Patterns Come Up Something New Locks Pauses Starks Suffragettes

Author:Tony Benn

“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.”

People Ifs Way Feels Important Whole Helping Consequence Claims Activism Useless Fabric Counterproductive

Book:Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays

Source: Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays

“It's possible that the name Bettini came up at some point during a conversation with the German Cycling Federation's anti-doping commission, but I certainly didn't claim that he gave me any drugs. They made that up. Bettini warned me: If you said that, then things could get dangerous for you.”

Ifs Made Said Names Dangerous Drug Conversation Claims Cycling Federation Doping

Author:Patrik Sinkewitz

“Henry James claim that if you want to be a novelist you should be somebody on whom nothing is lost.”

Ifs Want Should Lost Claims Novelists

Author:Ben Lerner

“Claims have been made that I've been on a strict workout routine regulated by co-stars, whipped into shape by trainers I've never met, eating sprouted grains I can't pronounce and ultimately losing 14 pounds off my 5'3" frame. Losing 14 pounds out of necessity in order to live a healthier life is a huge victory. I'm a petite person to begin with, so the idea of my losing this amount of weight is utter lunacy. If I were to lose 14 pounds, I'd have to part with both arms. And a foot.”

“I'm afraid, as true as love is, it is tested by circumstance and sometimes you don't make the best choices. As much as the fans claim [that] all they want is just want people sitting around and having a nice time together, trust me, you would not be watching the show if there wasn't conflict, if there wasn't drama, if there wasn't jeopardy. And it's not just physical jeopardy, it's romantic jeopardy as well.”

People Ifs Want Wells Sometimes Shows Together Choices Love Is Nice Fans Circumstances Drama Conflict Sitting Claims Tested Trust Me Sitting Around Jeopardy Time Together Nice Time

Author:Joseph Dougherty

“We all deserve to live in a world where our rights aren't violated at the whim of our leaders. It doesn't matter if our leaders are kings and queens, or the people who claim to save us from them.”

People Ifs World Matter Leader Rights Kings Deserve Claims Queens Whim Kings And Queens

Author:Diana Peterfreund

“The politicians of New York as not so fastidious as some gentlemen are, as to disclosing the principles on which they act. They boldly preach what they practice...if they are defeated, they expect to retire from office. If they are successful, they claim, as a matter of right, the advantages of success. They see nothing wrong in the rule that to the victor belongs the spoils of the enemy.”

Ifs Matter Enemy Principles Practice Successful New York Politician Office Advantage Claims Gentleman Retiring Defeated Spoil Fastidious

Author:William L. Marcy

“If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique.”

Ifs Claims West Technique Superiority

Book:Bertrand Russell's Best

Source: Bertrand Russell's Best

“Let us, on both sides, lay aside all arrogance. Let us not, on either side, claim that we have already discovered the truth. Let us seek it together as something which is known to neither of us. For then only may we seek it, lovingly and tranquilly, if there be no bold presumption that it is already discovered and possessed.”

Ifs May Together Sides Known Claims Lays Arrogance Possessed Both Sides Presumption

Author:Saint Augustine

“To claim that science and religion pose different questions to the world is not to suggest that if the bones of Jesus were discovered in Palestine, the pope should get himself down to the dole queue as fast as possible. It is rather to claim that while faith, rather like love, must involve factual knowledge, it is not reducible to it.”

Ifs World Should Different Jesus Claims Bones Pope Palestine Science And Religion Like Love Factual Queues

Author:Terry Eagleton

“My claim is that we should focus on the values of liberty... If there is not government to insist on those values, then who? ... The single unifying force should be that we govern ourselves.”

Ifs Should Government Values Force Liberty Focus Claims Unifying

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“According to Buddhism, each person is a Buddha who has forgotten their original nature. If we in the pampered West, having grown up with so many advantages, could not claim our own health and our agency, preferring to see ourselves as helpless victims, then who would do it? Who would take responsibility for the world?”

Ifs World Persons Responsibility Buddhism Advantage Claims Originals Victim West Forgotten Agency Helpless Taking Responsibility Pampered

Book:2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl

Source: 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl

“It is no wonder if, under the pressure of these possibilities of suffering, men are accustomed to moderate their claims to happiness - just as the pleasure principle itself, indeed, under the influence of the external world, changed into the more modest reality principle -, if a man thinks himself happy merely to have escaped unhappiness or to have survived his suffering, and if in general the task of avoiding suffering pushes that of obtaining pleasure into the background.”

“Atheism is the absence of a belief in a god, nothing more. If the theist wishes to draw monumental implications from this lack of belief, he must argue for his claims.”

Ifs Belief Wish Atheism Draws Claims Absence Arguing Implications Theist

Book:Atheism: The Case Against God

Source: Atheism: The Case Against God

“If I had to catalog all the moronic plot turns in The Day After Tomorrow, we'd be here until the next ice age. It's just so very bad. You can have a pretty good time snickering at it-unless, like me, you think there's something to this global warming thing, and you shudder at the irony of a movie meant to warn people about a dangerous environmental trend that completely discredits it. Is it possible that the film is a plot to make environmental activists look as wacko as anti-environmentalists always claim they are?”

People Ifs Thinking Looks Age Film Turns Next Dangerous Tomorrow Claims Environmental Like Me Ice Irony Global Warming Good Times Plot Activist Trends Environmentalist Discredit Ice Age

Author:David Edelstein

“As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn't running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.”

Ifs Firsts Humans Doe Running Universe Our Lives Pride Please Claims Augustine

Author:Dallas Willard

“If the Bible is what it claims to be, how can we allow it to remain on a bookshelf?”

Ifs Claims Bookshelves

Author:Steven J Lawson

“It always seemed, and still seems, ridiculously simple to say that if one can acquire a diversified group of common stocks at a price less than the applicable net current assets alone - after deducting all prior claims, and counting as zero the fixed and other assets - the results should be quite satisfactory.”

Ifs Should Stills Seems Simple Results Common Groups Claims Currents Fixed Acquire Zero Assets Counting

Author:Benjamin Graham

“But what, after all, is faith? It is a state of mind that leads people to believe something - it doesn't matter what - in the total absence of supporting evidence. If there were good supporting evidence then faith would be superfluous, for the evidence would compel us to believe it anyway. It is this that makes the often-parroted claim that 'evolution itself is a matter of faith' so silly. People believe in evolution not because they arbitrarily want to believe it but because of overwhelming, publicly available evidence.”

People Ifs Want Mind Believe Matter States Would Be Evolution Evidence Claims Available Absence Silly Overwhelming State Of Mind Superfluous Silly People

Author:Richard Dawkins

“I regret that I must so continually use the word genius, as if that should apply only to a caste as well defined from those below as income-tax payers are from the untaxed. The word genius was very probably invented by a man who had small claims on it himself; greater men would have understood better what to be a genius really was, and probably they would have come to see that the word could be applied to most people. Goethe said that perhaps only a genius is able to understand a genius.”

People Ifs Men Should Wells Said Use Able Greater Regret Genius Taxes Understood Claims Income Defined Income Tax I Regret Castes

Author:Otto Weininger

“For us, time travel is synonymous for the belief in all the things that are not seen, and also for the most outlandish claim that you could possibly make. To say that you're a time traveler is weirder than saying you're an alien. It's really strange to sit down in a basement and be face-to-face with someone who claims to be a real time traveler. So, for us, it was about the nuts and bolts of what it would be like, if you were face-to-face with someone who claimed to be from the future.”

Ifs Real Would Be Faces Belief Strange Claims Aliens Nuts Time Travel Traveler Face To Face Bolts Basements Outlandish Nuts And Bolts

Author:Zal Batmanglij

“If a man ain't nothin' else, then he's an artist. It's the only thing he can claim to be that nobody can prove he ain't.”

Ifs Men Artist Prove Claims

Author:Will Rogers

“Lies hold civilization together. If people ever seriously begin telling each other what they really think, there'd be no peace. Good-bye to tact. Good-bye to being polite. Good-bye to showing tolerance for other people's buffooneries. The fact that we claim to admire Truth is probably the biggest lie of all. But that's part of the charade, part of what makes us human, and we do not even think about it. In effect, we lie to ourselves. Lies are only despicable when they betray a trust.”

People Ifs Thinking Humans Facts Together Lying Effects Civilization Truth Is Claims Tolerance Admire Betray Polite Bye Good Bye Despicable Tact Being Polite Charades

Author:Jack McDevitt

“You can't claim you're for peace if you're not willing to disturb it.”

Ifs Willing Claims

Author:Bill Maher

“My central claim is that we become like Christ by doing one thing-by following Him in the overall style of life He chose for Himself. If we have faith in Christ, we must believe that He knew how to live. We can, through faith and grace, become like Christ by practicing the types of activities He engaged in, by arranging our whole lives around the activities He Himself practiced in order to remain constantly at home in the fellowship of the Father.”

Ifs Believe Whole Home Order Father Christ Grace One Thing Style Type Activity Claims Following Whole Life Engaged Have Faith Fellowship Arranging

Author:Dallas Willard

“Professors and students claim to be on a quest for truth while denying that it exists or that anyone could identify it if it did. Such is the nihilistic atmosphere in major universities around the world.”

Ifs World Students Majors Claims University Around The World Atmosphere Professors Quests

Author:Dave Hunt

“Our leaders and Osama Bin Laden all claim to do the right thing in the name of God. I question that. I wonder if that God is worth the life of another human-being.”

Ifs Humans Names Human Beings Leader Wonder Claims Right Thing Bin Laden Osama Bin Laden

Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as the virtuous claim for it.”

People Ifs Giving Sometimes Feelings Action Wish Pleasure Claims Wicked Virtuous Good Actions

Author:Nicolas Chamfort

“An Internet rumor claims that John Kerry had an affair with a young woman. When asked if this was similar to the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, a spokesman said 'Close, but no cigar.'”

Ifs Said Young Internet Claims Clinton Affair Young Women Scandal Rumor Cigar John Kerry

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“We should not feel so sorely grieved if no man who had not attained the full stature of a Webster, Clay, Van Buren, or Gerrit Smith could claim the right of the elective franchise. But to have drunkards, idiots, horse-racing, rum-selling rowdies, ignorant foreigners, and silly boys fully recognized, while we ourselves are thrust out from all the rights that belong to citizens, it is too grossly insulting to the dignity of woman to be longer quietly submitted to.”

Source: The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony reader: correspondence, writings, speeches

“If we do nothing, we are handing our children a ticking time bomb that will require they pay ever greater payroll taxes just as they are beginning their careers, starting their own families and staking their claim to the American Dream.”

Ifs Children Dream Pay Careers Greater Taxes Claims Our Children Starting Bombs American Dream Payroll Time Bomb Payroll Tax Ticking Time Ticking Time Bombs

Author:John McCain

“If the "rich" were swarming into poor neighborhoods and beating the poor until they coughed up the dimes they swallowed for safekeeping, yes, this would be a transfer of income from the poor to the rich. But allowing taxpayers to keep more of their money does not qualify as taking it from the poor - unless you believe that the poor have a moral claim to the money other people earn.”

People Ifs Believe Doe Would Be Poor Moral Rich Claims Income Neighborhood Allowing Taxpayers Transfers Dimes Poor Neighborhoods

Author:James Lileks

“My biggest surprise of the year does involve Donald Trump and it involves his money. And I am one of the prominent disbelievers of his claims of wealth and how rich he was. He put out a press release before he did his financial disclosure form saying he made over $200 million from a TV show.If you know about the economics of televisions, that sounds impossible. I don`t believe it.”

“Rhyme as an echo not a closing off of sound. Love it. I don't know where the rhymes came from. Or the puns like "no/know" and so on. Just a way my mind start moving toward what seemed urgent to it. I'd like to claim complete rational intent for it all, but it wasn't that way. if you asked me about rhyme thirty years ago, I'd have said: not me, never. And now I done it.”

Ifs Knows Way Years Mind Said Done Moving Sound Years Ago Claims Rational Thirty Echoes Rhyme Urgent Closing Thirty Years Pun Closing Off

Author:Gregory Orr

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