“We make our own choices and we're each responsible for them. Blame and credit belong to the individual. You haven't the right to claim either from someone else.” InspirationalSuccessChoicesIndividualHavensClaimsResponsibleBlameCreditInspirational Success Book:The Art of Deception Source: The Art of Deception
“[T]ruly grand and powerful theories [...] do not and cannot rest upon single observations. Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the only conceptual structure that can make unified sense of all this disparate information. The failure of a particular claim usually records a local error, not the bankruptcy of a central theory. [...] If I mistakenly identify your father's brother as your own dad, you don't become genealogically rootless and created de novo. You still have a father; we just haven't located him properly.” IfsStillsFatherPowerfulRecordsHavensInformationParticularBrotherTheorySourceEvolutionDadClaimsIndependentStructureErrorsLocalsObservationBankruptcyUnifiedInference Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“A number of plastic surgeons are claiming that looking at John Kerry now, as opposed to a few months ago, they believe he's had Botox shots. They claim a number of his worry lines have vanished. They haven't vanished, just Howard Dean is wearing them now.” BelieveLinesNumbersWorryHavensMonthsShotsClaimsPlasticSurgeonsDeanJohn KerryBotoxPlastic Surgeons Author:Jay Leno
“To claim, at a dead party, to have spotted a grackle, When in fact you haven't of late, can do no harm.” FactsTruthLyingCan DoPartyHavensLateClaimsHarm Book:Collected Poems 1943-2004 Source: Collected Poems 1943-2004
“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.” ThinkingWayCountrySeemsDesireNationsSimpleAnswersUnitedFateHavensConflictClaimsConsistentPatrioticPatriotMistakenUnited NationsHis LoveAmerican Patriot Author:Jonah Goldberg
“How can someone like Alain Juppé still claim I haven't condemned the Paris and Brussels attacks, when I actually have. What I am saying is crystal clear.” StillsClearHavensClaimsParisCrystalsBrussels Author:Tariq Ramadan