“I am both stunned and appalled that Pat Robertson would claim to know the mind of God concerning whether particular events... were the judgments of God.” KnowsMindEventsParticularJudgmentClaimsStunned Author:Richard Land
“As a cultural form, database represents the world as a list of items and it refuses to order this list. In contrast, a narrative creates a cause-and-effect trajectory of seemingly unordered items (events). Therefore, database and narrative are natural enemies. Competing for the same territory of human culture, each claims an exclusive right to make meaning out of the world.” WorldHumansFormOrderCultureCausesNaturalEnemyEffectsEventsClaimsRefuseListsNarrativeTerritoryContrastCompetingItemsExclusiveCause And EffectTrajectoryDatabasesNatural Enemies Author:Lev Manovich
“In constructing our narratives, we identify which particular events or experiences were formative or transformative. In telling our stories, we also claim some authority over our own experiences and their meanings.” StoriesEventsParticularAuthorityClaimsNarrative Author:Peg O'Connor
“The Commonwealth is a mere club, but it has become like Animal Farm, where some members are more equal than others. How can Blair claim to regulate and direct events and still say all of us are equals?” StillsAnimalEventsEqualMembersDirectClaimsMereClubsFarmsCommonwealthBlairZimbabwe Author:Robert Mugabe
“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
“Like an explorer returned from a distant planet or another dimension, Suki Kim has many extraordinary tales to tell, among them how different--and how awful--life is for those who live in North Korea. The devil is in the details here, for her gritty narrative focuses on everyday events to reveal how repression shapes daily life, even for the most privileged. Yet Kim also bears witness to that part of the human soul that no oppressor can ever claim.” HumansDifferentSoulLife IsEventsPlanetsBearsShapesDevilClaimsExtraordinaryEverydayDetailsTalesAwfulWitnessNarrativeDimensionsDaily LifePrivilegedKoreaHuman SoulNorth KoreaRepressionOppressorsExplorersKim Author:Carlos Eire
“The designation of the locality in one excludes the appearances narrated by the rest; the determination of time in another leaves no space for the narratives of his fellow-evangelists; the enumeration of a third is given without any regard to the events reported by his predecessors; lastly, among several appearances recounted by various narrators, each claims to be the last, and yet has nothing in common with the others. Hence nothing but wilful blindness can prevent the perception that no one of the narrators knew and presupposed what another records.” LastsGivenSpaceCommonRecordsAtheismEventsPerceptionDeterminationThirdsClaimsRegardFellowsVariousAppearancePositive AtheismNarrativeBlindnessPredecessorsNarratorsEvangelistsLocalityDesignation Author:David Friedrich Strauss
“Advance warning of Katrina's path was wrested from mute Nature by meteorological calculations and satellite imagery. God told no one of His plans. Had the residents of New Orleans been content to rely on the beneficence of God, they wouldn't have known that a killer hurricane was bearing down upon them until they felt the first gusts of wind on their faces. And yet, as will come as no surprise to you, a poll conducted by The Washington Post found that 80 percent of Katrina's survivors claim that the event only strengthened their faith in God.” FirstsFacesFoundFeltKnownPathPlansAtheismEventsWindPercentClaimsSurprisePositive AtheismPostsRelySurvivorWarningKillersFaith In GodNew OrleansPollsImageryHurricanesCalculationsMuteSatellitesResidentsKatrinaBeneficence Book:Letter to a Christian Nation Source: Letter to a Christian Nation
“You need only claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality. When at last age has assembled you together, will it not be easy to let it all go, lived, balanced, over?” NeedsMayHas BeensDoneRealityAgeTogetherLastsEasyEventsClaimsFierceBalanced Book:Measure of My Days Source: Measure of My Days
“Our strategy in dealing with patents in Mono is the same strategy that any other software developer would take. In the event of a patent claim, we will try to find prior art to the claim of the patent.” TryingArtEventsClaimsStrategySoftwarePatentsDevelopersMono Author:Miguel de Icaza
“It is certain that success naturally confirms in us a favourable opinion of our own abilities. Scarce any man is willing to allot to accident, friendship, and a thousand causes, which concur in every event without human contrivance or interposition, the part which they may justly claim in his advancement. We rate ourselves by our fortune rather than our virtues, and exorbitant claims are quickly produced by imaginary merit.” MenHumansMayCertainCausesAbilityOpinionVirtueEventsWillingThousandClaimsFortuneRateAccidentsMeritImaginaryAdvancementScarceConcur Book:The Rambler: In Four Volumes.. Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes..
“Any claims on the truth in my pictures are only to be answered in the sense that a particular event did in fact happen and did take place in the here and now.” FactsHappensEventsParticularClaimsHere And Now Author:Andreas Gursky
“This [9/11 event] was bloody-minded destruction for no other reason than to do it. Note that there was no claim for these attacks. There were no demands. There were no statements. It was a silent piece of terror. This was part of nothing.” ReasonPiecesEventsDemandDestructionClaimsNotesSilentTerrorStatementsBloody Author:Edward Said