“Every city is either vibrant these days or is working on a plan to attain vibrancy soon. The reason is simple: a city isn't successful - isn't even a city, really - unless it can lay claim to being 'vibrant.'” ReasonSimpleCitiesSuccessfulPlansClaimsLaysThese DaysVibrancy Book:No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler Source: No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler
“When reputable scientists correct flaws in an experiment that produced fantastic results, then fail to get those results when they repeat the test with flaws corrected, they withdraw their original claims. They do not defend them by arguing irrelevantly that the failed replication was successful in some other way, or by making intemperate attacks on whomever dares to criticize their competence.” WayResultsSuccessfulFailingAtheismTestsScientistClaimsOriginalsDarePositive AtheismArguingExperimentsFantasticRepeatsFlawsCriticizeCompetenceReplication Author:Martin Gardner
“How many people can you claim truly care about you? I mean, not just the people in your life who are fun to hang out with, not just the people who you love and trust. But people who feel good when you are happy and successful, feel bad when you are hurt or going through a hard time, people who would walk away from their lives for a little while to help you with yours?” PeopleFeelsMeanLittlesHardHelpingCareFunHurtWalksSuccessfulClaimsFeel GoodHard TimesHanging OutPeople In Your LifeLove And Trust Author:Lisa Unger
“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.” IfsMatterEnemyPrinciplesPracticeSuccessfulNew YorkPoliticianOfficeAdvantageClaimsGentlemanRetiringDefeatedSpoilFastidious Author:William L. Marcy
“Look at the results of regime change in Iraq. You can't possibly claim that it was successful.” LooksResultsSuccessfulClaimsIraqRegimesRegime Change Author:Bashar al-Assad
“It isn't humanly possible for the things radical leftists want to bring about the desired results that they choose. They claim they want a utopian happiness, and they are further and further away from it the more successful they are.” WantResultsSuccessfulClaimsRadicalUtopianLeftists Author:Rush Limbaugh
“If you look at US internal documents, they explain very clearly what the threat of Cuba was. So, back in the early 1960s the State Department described the threat of Cuba as Castro's successful defiance of US policy, going back to the Monroe Doctrine. The Monroe Doctrine established the US claim to dominate the Western hemisphere and Castro was successfully defying that. That's not tolerable. It is like somebody saying "let's have democracy in Greece," and we just can't tolerate that so we have to destroy the threat at its roots.” IfsLooksStatesDemocracySuccessfulPolicyRootsClaimsThreatWesternDoctrineDepartmentInternalsTolerateDocumentsGreece1960sCubaDefianceCastroTolerableHemisphereDefyingMonroe Doctrine Author:Noam Chomsky
“Claim whatever you want. Say you only want a happy family or a successful career or a big house. I say: no, that's not what you want. You'll settle for those things, but you really want a monkey that does your evil bidding. Pullman is a genius just for this.” WantDoeBigsEvilHouseCareersSuccessfulGeniusClaimsWhat You WantSettlingMonkeysBiddingHappy FamilyBig HousesSuccessful Career Author:Maureen Johnson
“If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.” IfsWorldInspirationalShouldSpiritualScienceSuccessfulTheoryCitizensProveRacismClaimsJewMathematicalFranceGermanyProvenRelativityUntrueWorld CitizenScience PhysicsTheories Of Relativity Author:Albert Einstein
“In eleven or twelve years of writing, Mike, I can lay claim to at least this: I have never written beneath myself. I have never written anything that I didn't want my name attached to. I have probed deeper in some scripts and I've been more successful in some than others. But all of them that have been on, you know, I'll take my lick. They're mine and that's the way I wanted them.” KnowsWayWantWritingYearsHas BeensI CanWantedNamesSuccessfulWrittenMinesClaimsLaysScriptsDeeperTwelveMikeEleven Author:Rod Serling