“I remember talking to someone who is vegan. At the time, I would hear a lot of outrageous claims from vegans about the good that being a vegan can do for you, for your health and whatnot. I remember someone once told me vegans don't sweat, so I started my mind going.” MindRememberCan DoTalkingClaimsVeganSweatOutrageousTalking To Someone Author:Bryan Lee O'Malley
“When the atheist is told that God is unknowable, he may interpret this claim in one of two ways. He may suppose, first, that the theist has acquired knowledge of a being that, by his own admission, cannot possibly be known; or, second, he may assume that the theist simply does not know what he is talking about.” KnowsWayFirstsMayDoeTwoTalkingKnownAtheismClaimsAssumingAtheistPositive AtheismTwo WaysAdmissionTheist Book:Why Atheism? Source: Why Atheism?
“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?” IfsWorldIdeasAmericaTalkingCasesImagineClaimsMadImagine ThatHonoredMaxChaoticDefaultBaffledMad Max Author:Paul Krugman
“The pope can go ahead and claim that Trump is not a Christian, but you can't go there when we talking about the president of the United States.” StatesChristianPresidentUnitedTalkingUnited StatesTrumpClaimsPope Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I believe that research, that you can claim that you're doing research only if half of the people, and I'm talking about half of the experts, believe that the goal is impossible.” PeopleIfsBelieveI BelieveGoalHalfTalkingImpossibleResearchClaimsExperts Author:Burt Rutan
“There is really no fiction or non-fiction; there is only narrative. One mode of perception has no greater claim on the truth than the other; that the distance has perhaps to do with distance - narrative distance - from the characters; it has to do with the kind of voice that is talking, but it certainly hasn't to do with the common distribution between fact and imagination.” KindCharacterFactsVoiceImaginationCommonFictionTalkingGreaterPerceptionClaimsDistanceNarrativeDistributionNon Fiction Author:E. L. Doctorow
“I'm talking about people who claim to love people. I'm talking about people who claim to love and represent the little guy. They're the people that tell us that if not for them, the little guy would be trampled on daily. Well, if they really cared about the little guy, if they really cared about the little guy, and want the little guy to have an improved life, more contentment, more happiness, then the United States is what you would emulate. You certainly wouldn't tear it down.” PeopleIfsWantWellsLittlesStatesWould BeGuyUnitedTalkingUnited StatesTearsClaimsContentmentEmulate Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The president of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialogue with God. If he said that he was talking to God through his hairdryer, this would precipitate a national emergency. I fail to see how the addition of a hairdryer makes the claim more ridiculous or offensive.” IfsSaidStatesReligionPresidentUnitedTalkingUnited StatesFailingClaimsAtheistRidiculousDialogueOccasionsOffensiveEmergenciesTalking To God Author:Sam Harris
“We don't stop talking about how the world might be better just because we have no chance of making it to Prime Minister. We are all politicians. We are all artists. In an open society everything the mind and hands can achieve is our birthright. It is up to us to claim it.” WorldMindHandsMightArtistChanceTalkingAchievePoliticianClaimsMinistersPrimePrime MinisterBirthright Author:Stephen Fry
“We must never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God, whether in prose or in poetry. A generous orthodoxy, in contrast to the tense, narrow, or controlling orthodoxies of so much of Christian history, doesn't take itself too seriously. It is humble. It doesn't claim too much. It admits it walks with a limp.” ThinkingGodChristianPoetryWalksTalkingPowerToo MuchImagineClaimsHumbleGenerosityGenerousProseControlledContrastUnderestimateTenseOrthodoxyAdmittingNever UnderestimateChristian HeritageLimping Author:Brian D. McLaren
“Life is such a mystery, no one can understand it, and one who claims that he understands it is simply ignorant. He is not aware of what he is saying, of what nonsense he is talking. If you are wise, this will be the first realization: life cannot be understood. Understanding is impossible. Only this much can be understood - that understanding is impossible.” IfsLifeFirstsLife IsUnderstandingTalkingWiseImpossibleMysteryInspirational LifeUnderstoodClaimsIgnorantRealizationNonsense Author:Rajneesh
“Freeman denied the claim that he was a “man of God”, saying that “the question of faith is whatever you actually believe is. We take a lot of what we're talking about in science on faith; we posit a theory, and until it's dis-proven we have faith that it's true. If the mathematics work out, then it's true, until it's proven to be untrue.” IfsMenBelieveTalkingTheoryClaimsMathematicsWork OutHave FaithDeniedProvenUntrueFreemanMan Of God Author:Morgan Freeman