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“So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution.”

Thinking Might Economic Conditions Revolution Concerned Claims American Revolution

Book:The reminiscences of an astronomer

Source: The reminiscences of an astronomer

“I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.”

Thinking Losing Capacity Claims Zionism

Author:A. B. Yehoshua

“Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged, its literary claims will, I think, be given only 'mouth honour' and that decreasingly.”

Thinking Given Religious Mouths Claims Honour

Book:Selected Literary Essays

Source: Selected Literary Essays

“I don't claim to be an expert on this, but I think ADD and creativity may be the same thing; it's just that they can't sell you drugs for being creative. Seriously, the world needs people whose minds constantly wander, because that's how great ideas are stumbled upon.”

People Thinking World Needs Mind May Ideas Creativity Creative Gratitude Drug Claims Sells Add Wander Experts Be Creative Great Idea

Author:Hal Elrod

“I think I developed a culture of healthy skepticism of claims of certainty on any side of the aisle. A sort of boldness in using economics no matter where it leads you in political circles, you know, rather than worrying about being left-wing or right-wing or biased or this or that.”

Thinking Knows Matter Political Culture Left Sides Worry Healthy Economics Claims Wings Circles Certainty Skepticism Boldness Right Wing Biased Left Wing Aisle

Author:David Plotz

“As much as I adore Agatha Christie - and I think people make this claim about murder mysteries in general - it's often a very conservative mode of storytelling. Usually it's the greedy, climbing, new-money slimeball who wants to take from the aristocracy.”

People Thinking Want Mystery Claims Murder Conservative Storytelling Climbing Adore Greedy Aristocracy Christie Murder Mysteries

Author:Christopher Bollen

“A man must first care for his own household before he can be of use to the state. But no matter how well he cares for his household, he is not a good citizen unless he also takes thought of the state. In the same way, a great nation must think of its own internal affairs; and yet it cannot substantiate its claim to be a great nation unless it also thinks of its position in the world at large.”

Thinking Men World Way Firsts Wells Matter States Use Care Nations Position Citizens Claims Affair Internals Household Great Nations Good Citizen Internal Affairs

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Even to the sage who's doing Sahaja Samadhi, the great guru, I'd say: "Hey buddy, you know, I like the robes and everything, but remember, you're only touching infinity. And if you claim to be doing more, I think you're pretty much in the senses and the body and the mind because infinity is endless."”

Ifs Thinking Knows Mind Body Remember Teacher Claims Senses Endless Hey Enlightened Touching Infinity Sage Guru Buddy Remember You Remembers You Robes Samadhi You Re Pretty

Author:Frederick Lenz

“With its claims to profundity, boldness and originality, thinking still limits itself provisionally to the exclusively rational and scientific. ... As soon as it lays hold of the feelings, it becomes spirit.”

Thinking Stills Feelings Spirit Limits Claims Lays Rational Originality Boldness Profundity

Book:Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses

Source: Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses

“When we trust the makers of baby formula more than we do our own ability to nourish our babies, we lose a chance to claim an aspect of our power as women. Thinking that baby formula is as good as breast milk is believing that thirty years of technology is superior to three million years of nature's evolution. Countless women have regained trust in their bodies through nursing their children, even if they weren't sure at first that they could do it. It is an act of female power, and I think of it as feminism in its purest form.”

“I have really got it into my head to try to be United States Senator, and, if I could have your support, my chances would be reasonably good. But I know, and acknowledge, that you have as just claims to the place as I have; and therefore I cannot ask you to yield to me, if you are thinking of becoming a candidate, yourself. If, however, you are not, then I should like to be remembered affectionately by you; and also to have you make a mark for me with the Anti-Nebraska members down your way.”

Source: LINCOLN – Complete 7 Volume Edition: Biographies, Speeches and Debates, Civil War Telegrams, Letters, Presidential Orders & Proclamations: Including the Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt & 3 Biographies: The Every-day Life of the President, Lincoln by Carl Shurz and Abraham Lincoln by Joseph H. Choate

“I know very well that because I am unlettered some presumptuous people will think they have the right to criticize me, saying that I am an uncultured man. What stupid fools! Do they not know that I could reply to them as Marius did to the Roman patricians: "Do those who pride themselves on the works of other men claim to challenge mine?”

People Thinking Knows Men Wells Challenges Education Stupid Mines Pride Fool Claims Criticize Presumptuous Marius

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“I really think my fun personality is my ace in the hole. I will never claim to be the most beautiful or most talented queen, because I can think of many queens who fit that description. However, it's my "charisma" that takes me to a higher level in my drag!”

Thinking I Can Beautiful Fun Levels Personality Higher Fit Claims Holes Queens Description Take Me Drag Because I Can Charisma Higher Level Aces

Author:Manila Luzon

“When I started making enough money to afford high-end, fancy skincare products with sexy bottles and impressive claims, I decided to give them a try. As a result my skin acted up and got irritated. I think sometimes women may be overcleansing their skin. Some products and masks can be too aggressive and irritating for certain skin types. I believe the more simple, natural, and easy the skin care regime, the better off your skin will be.”

“I am not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief is positively harmful. Reviewing the false claims of religion, I do not wish, as some sentimental materialists affect to wish, that they were true. I do not envy believers their faith. I am relieved to think that the whole story is a sinister fairy tale; life would be miserable if what the faithful affirmed was actually the case.”

Source: Letters to a Young Contrarian

“The not-visibly-insane Democrats all claim they'll get rough with the terrorists, but they can't even face Brit Hume. In case you missed this profile in Democrat machismo, the Democratic presidential candidates are refusing to participate in a debate hosted by Fox News Channel because the hosts are "biased." But they'll face down Mahmoud Ahmadinejad! At this, even Hillary Clinton was thinking, "Come on, guys - let's grow a pair."”

“..the real world's all we've got. Believers in the supernatural claim to have special wisdom about the world. But real wisdom means knowing truth from falsehood, knowing the difference between evidence and wishful thinking. Yes, the real world is mysterious and sometimes frightening. But would the supernatural make it better? The real world has beauty, poetry, love and the joy of honest discovery. Isn't that enough?”

“A maverick may go his own way but he doesn't think that it's the only way or ever claim that it's the best one, except maybe for himself. And don't imagine that this raggle-taggle gypsy is claiming to be free. It's just that some of the necessities to which I am a slave are different from yours.”

Thinking Way May Different Imagine Claims Slave Imagine That Gypsy Maverick

Author:Orson Welles

“Anytime you have anyone who thinks he or she has God in their pocket, you have the potential for disaster, ... Throughout history, the claim that God is on your side has been used to justify any action, no matter how violent or destructive.”

Thinking Has Beens Matter Action Used Sides Claims Disaster Violent Destructive Pockets Justify Your Side

Author:Charles Kimball

“Never believe a man's claim that he has to harm his partner in order to protect her; only abusers think this way.”

Thinking Men Way Believe Order Protect Claims Harm Partners Abusers

Book:Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

Source: Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

“We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I dont think theres any doubt that coming of age in Winnipeg both opened my eyes and made me hungry - if I can subvert all claims to be a real writer by mixing metaphors like that.”

Ifs Thinking Made I Can Different Real Eye Age Form Grows Growing Up Doubt Claims Metaphor Hungry Coming Of Age Mixing Winnipeg

Author:Guy Gavriel Kay

“Morality is a biological adaptation no less than are hands and feet and teeth... Considered as a rationally justifiable set of claims about an objective something, ethics is illusory. I appreciate that when somebody says, 'Love thy neighbor as thyself,' they think they are referring above and beyond themselves... Nevertheless... such reference is truly without foundation. Morality is just an aid to survival and reproduction... and any deeper meaning is illusory...”

“I dont think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.”

Thinking Should Political Jesus Party Claims Political Parties

Author:Vicky Hartzler

“The goals of the feminist movement have not been achieved, and those who claim we're living in a post-feminist era are either sadly mistaken or tired of thinking about the whole subject.”

Thinking Whole Goal Feminism Subjects Movement Claims Tired Feminist Eras Posts Mistaken Feminist Movement

Book:The edible woman ; Surfacing ; Lady oracle

Source: The edible woman ; Surfacing ; Lady oracle

“I often tell people to stop being afraid of writing bad poetry, or bad anything. I think that a lot of times, when people claim that they have writer's block, or that they get stuck, it's just because they're scared of writing bad things.”

People Thinking Writing Claims Scared Stuck Block Bad Things Being Afraid Writer's Block

Author:Sarah Kay

“The only people who claim that money is not important are people who have enough money so that they are relieved of the ugly burden of thinking about it.”

People Thinking Important Enough Money Claims Burden Ugly Relieved

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“a white person who claims to have no impediment of vision in this country is not, I think, telling the whole truth. And when it comes to race relations, not telling the whole truth about the fog one inhabits slows down the work of groping forward.”

Thinking Persons Country Whole White Race Vision Racism Claims Relation Fog Slow Down Race Relations Impediments Whole Truth

Author:Naomi Wolf

“We need to begin thinking about building permanence on the Red Planet, not just have voyagers do some experiments, plant a flag and claim success. Having them go there, repeat this, in my view, is dim-witted. Why not stay there?”

Thinking Needs Views Building Planets Red Claims Plant Experiments Repeats Why Not Flags Permanence

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“Most writers I know move back and forth between the rational and the intuitive, though there are some who approach writing very rationally, and others who claim not to think their work through.”

Thinking Knows Writing Moving Approach Claims Rational Intuitive Back And Forth

Author:Peter Turchi

“Think beyond the pain. Think beyond the difficulty. Commit to having one good idea every day. What new idea will you claim today?”

Thinking Ideas Today Pain Claims Difficulty Commit Good Ideas New Ideas

Author:Mary Morrissey

“Sing songs that none have sung, think thoughts that ne'er in the brain have rung, Walk in paths that none have trod, weep tears as none have shed for God, Give peace to all to whom none other gave, Claim him your own who's everywhere disclaimed. Love all with love that none have felt and Brave the battle of life with strength unchained.”

Thinking Giving Song Felt Walks Healing Brain Path Tears Battle Claims Brave Shed Battle Of Life

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their "critical thinking."”

Thinking Children Common Steps Students Claims Critical Math Core Initiative Critical Thinking Step Up Common Core Step Children

Author:David Harsanyi

“The loss of transcendence has left in its wake the flotsam of distrustful, cynical Christians, angry at a capricious God, and the jetsam of smug bibilolatrists who claim to know precisely what God is thinking and exactly what he plans to do.”

Thinking Knows Christian Left Loss Plans Claims Angry Cynical Transcendence Capricious Flotsam

Author:Brennan Manning

“I've always wanted to have tattoos. I grew up around people who were very tattooed. It's a self-expression thing; it's also helped me claim my body as my own. So I think it's really positive. It's really joyful.”

People Thinking Self Body Wanted My Own Expression Grew Grew Up Claims Joyful Tattoo Self Expression Tattooed Really Positive

Author:Margaret Cho

“The image cannot be dispossessed of a primordial freshness, which idea can never claim. An idea is derivative and tamed. The imageis in the natural or wild state, and it has to be discovered there, not put there, obeying its own law and none of ours. We think we can lay hold of image and take it captive, but the docile captive is not the real image but only the idea, which is the image with its character beaten out of it.”

Thinking Ideas Real States Character Law Natural Claims Lays Beaten Captives Freshness Obeying Derivatives Tamed Docile

Author:John Crowe Ransom

“Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can't be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.”

People Thinking Different Joy Term Theory Evolution Claims Categories Like Love Theory Of Evolution

Author:Stephen Hawking

“I have a simple answer to any American patriot who claims that there is no conflict between his love of country and his desire to hitch our fate to the United Nations: “You're mistaken.” And, therefore, I'm thinking of adding this corollary to my General Rule of patriotism: The more intellectually consistent and pro-U.N. you are, the less patriotic you are likely to be. I haven't thought that all the way through, but it seems right to me.”

Thinking Way Country Seems Desire Nations Simple Answers United Fate Havens Conflict Claims Consistent Patriotic Patriot Mistaken United Nations His Love American Patriot

Author:Jonah Goldberg

“The insolent civility of a proud man is, if possible, more shocking than his rudeness could be; because he shows you, by his manner, that he thinks it mere condescension in him; and that his goodness alone bestows upon you what you have no pretense to claim.”

Ifs Thinking Men Shows Proud Goodness Claims Mere Shocking Civility Pretense Rudeness Condescension Insolent Proud Man

Book:The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

“So many of the wars in history, thousands and thousands of them for the past five, six, seven thousand years, have been related to differences in Truth claims. If we can evolve beyond that problem, then I think there's some chance that we could retire the whole institution of war and begin to focus on the peaceful evolution of humanity.”

“...if use is not an appropriate criterion for decision making in the academic life, what is? Love. ...The virtues of love as a criterion for choosing a college major...it is not pretentious. "Use" is pretentious because it claims to know something about the future that it doesn't really know. Love is immediate... [love] guarantees that you will work to your highest potential...it is part of who you are, and not just something you think, often wrongly, that you can use.”

“It is no more narrow to claim that one religion is right than to claim that one way to think about all religions is right.”

Thinking Way Claims One Way

Book:The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

Source: The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

“I think nobody would claim that random genetic drift is capable of producing adaptation, that is to say the illusion of design. Random genetic drift can't produce wings that are good at flying, or eyes that are good at seeing, or legs that are good at running. But random genetic drift probably is very important in driving evolution at the molecular genetic level.”

Thinking Important Eye Running Levels Seeing Design Produce Evolution Capable Illusion Claims Wings Legs Driving Flying Adaptation

Author:Richard Dawkins

“I have many friends that don't claim to be followers of Christ. As far as day-to-day friendship and being together at various functions, I don't think that there should be any difference at all.”

Thinking Should Together Christ Differences Function Claims Various Followers Day To Day Many Friends Being Together

Author:Billy Graham

“Christian faith is exclusivistic. Christian faith lays claim upon our lives. The sanctity of life, what we do with a life, is very definitive in the Christian faith, what we do with sexuality, what we do with marriage, all of the fundamental questions of life have points of reference for answers, and people just have an aversion for that. That I think is the biggest reason they feel hostile towards the Christian faith.”

People Thinking Feels Reason Christian Life Is Answers Our Lives Claims Fundamentals Lays Sexuality Hostile Christian Faith Sanctity Aversion Sanctity Of Life

Author:Ravi Zacharias

“I think a woman is powerless if she cannot freely claim the right to her reproductive capacity. Society can talk about anything it likes, except a woman's reproductive existence.”

Ifs Thinking Existence Capacity Claims Likes Powerless

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“Sex therapist claims that the most effective way to arouse your man is to spend 10 minutes licking his ears!! Personally, I think its bollocks!!”

Thinking Men Way Humor Funny Sex Minutes Ears Claims Therapists Licking

Author:Billy Connolly

“I'm thinking about some developments say in the 80s when the anti-apartheid movement began to claim more support and strength within the US. Black trade unionists played a really important role in developing this US anti-apartheid movement.”

Thinking Important Black Roles Support Movement Development Claims Trade Developing 80s Apartheid Strength Within

Author:Angela Davis

“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

“I was raised in an Orthodox Jewish household and I wouldn't say so much it's informed my views, but it's informed my interest, so I think as a child I was often very baffled by knowledge claims.”

Thinking Children Interest Views Claims Raised Orthodox Household Baffled

Author:Rebecca Goldstein

“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