“Property is the foundation of every right we have, including the right to be free. Every legal claim, after all, is a claim to something-either a defensive claim to keep what one is holding or an offensive claim to something someone else is holding.” ClaimsFoundationPropertyIncludingOffensive Author:Roger Pilon
“The argument that the literal story of Genesis can qualify as science collapses on three major grounds: the creationists' need to invoke miracles in order to compress the events of the earth's history into the biblical span of a few thousand years; their unwillingness to abandon claims clearly disproved, including the assertion that all fossils are products of Noah's flood; and their reliance upon distortion, misquote, half-quote, and citation out of context to characterize the ideas of their opponents.” NeedsYearsIdeasStoriesEarthReligionOrderThreeHalfAtheismEventsProductsThousandMajorsArgumentMiracleClaimsIncludingOpponentsAbandonCollapseBiblicalFloodThousand YearsFossilsRelianceLiteralAssertionGenesisDistortionInvokeOf ContextCitations Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“We've formed many a theory and belief, but as we look about the human world, it is clear that nobody actually knows what's going on. Yet claims to Truth are being made at every hand, including the claim that there is no Truth.” KnowsWorldHumansLooksMadeHandsBeliefClearTheoryClaimsIncluding Book:Why the World Doesn't Seem to Make Sense: An Inquiry Into Science, Philosophy, and Perception Source: Why the World Doesn't Seem to Make Sense: An Inquiry Into Science, Philosophy, and Perception
“God created... light anddark, heaven and hell-science claims the same thing as religion, that the Big Bang createdeverything in the universe with an opposite."Including matter itself, antimatter"” MatterBigsLightUniverseHeavenHellOppositesClaimsIncludingBangsHeaven And HellAntimatter Author:Dan Brown
“All power within the microcosm of my world was held and wielded by people who look like me. Plus, I think Nigerians all have this sense that they are better than everyone, including white people. So I have the privilege of a certain distance. It may just be that. So in a sense, I can't claim that as any ability that I have, simply a matter of circumstance.” PeopleThinkingWorldLooksMayI CanMatterCertainAbilityWhiteCircumstancesClaimsDistanceIncludingPrivilegeLike MePlusMicrocosm Author:Chris Abani
“Since 1981, after our nations severed diplomatic relations, we've worked through a international tribunal to resolve various claims between our countries. The United States and Iran are now settling a long-standing Iranian government claim against the United States government. Iran will be returned its own funds, including appropriate interest but much less than the amount Iran sought. With the nuclear deal done, prisoners released, the time was right to resolve this dispute as well.” WellsLongCountryStatesDoneGovernmentNationsInterestUnitedDealsUnited StatesAmountStandingClaimsRelationIncludingInternationalVariousNuclearOur CountrySettlingAppropriateFundIranResolvePrisonerDisputesIranianDiplomaticState GovernmentUnited States GovernmentTribunalsDiplomatic Relations Author:Barack Obama
“Today much of anti-biofuel "science" - including the false claim that biofuels need more energy to make than they contain - has been shown to be complete hogwash, bought and paid for by big oil.” NeedsHas BeensBigsTodayEnergyClaimsPaidIncludingOilBiofuelsBig OilHogwash Author:Josh Tickell
“In other words, United States, our values, the way that we occupy ourselves in terms of saying here's the way we stand in this country when we go to war, it's not that we go in and we kill off anybody, including families. We don't take the riches. We don't claim the women. My God, that's not America.” WayWarCountryStatesAmericaValuesTermUnitedUnited StatesClaimsIncludingRiches Author:Juan Williams
“There's the trope about an impending "global-warming encyclical." The pope is preparing an encyclical on nature and the environment, including the human environment (which includes the moral imperative of a culturally affirmed and legally recognized right to life from conception until natural death). So what happens? A low-ranking Vatican official for self-promotion gives an interview to the Guardian in which he claims that this is a global-warming encyclical - which he couldn't possibly have known, as the document wasn't drafted yet.” GivingHumansSelfHappensNaturalKnownMoralEnvironmentLowsClaimsIncludingOfficialsInterviewsGlobal WarmingConceptionDocumentsPopePreparingGuardianPromotionImperativesRankingRight To LifeTropesSelf PromotionNatural Death Author:George Weigel
“Christians have always tended to transform the Christian Revelation into a Christian religion. Christianity is said to be a religion like any other or, conversely, some Christians try to show that it is a better religion than the others. People attempt to take possession of God. Theology claims to explain everything, including the being of God. People tend to transform Christianity into a religion because the Christian faith obviously places people in an extremely uncomfortable position that of freedom guided only by love and all in the context of God's radical demand that we be holy.” PeopleTryingSaidShowsChristianReligionChristianityPositionHolyDemandClaimsIncludingPossessionTheologyRadicalUncomfortableRevelationsChristian Faith Author:Jacques Ellul
“I am perceiving everyone, including myself, as an awakening being who is here to claim his or her birthright to the higher consciousness planes of unconditional love and oneness.” SpiritualConsciousnessHigherClaimsIncludingAwakeningOnenessPlanesUnconditional LoveUnconditionalHigher ConsciousnessBirthright Author:Ken Keyes Jr.
“Given the rest of the economic news, including the fact that GDP growth is positive, inflation is still low, jobless claims are still moving downward and temporary services are firming up, that means the recovery continues, and we hope it will continue in a more robust fashion.” MeanStillsFactsMovingGivenGrowthEconomicFashionNewsLowsClaimsIncludingRecoveryTemporaryJoblessInflationRobustGdp Author:Elaine Chao