Quotes About Claims

My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims.

An infinitely greedy sovereign is afoot in the universe, staking his claims.

Here the attention of the research workers is primarily directed to the problem of reconciling the claims of the special relativity theory with those of the quantum theory. The extraordinary advances made in this field by Dirac ... leave open the question whether it will be possible to satisfy the claims of the two theories without at the same time determining the Sommerfeld fine-structure constant.

the repeated charge that CNN reports "fake news," which started shortly after some blog sites Trump draws on had been shown to manufacture news claims out of nothing. The idea here is to cauterize public outrage by making it seem that "both sides" say the same thing about the other.

The National Reich Church of Germany categorically claims the exclusive right and the exclusive power to control all churches within the borders of the Reich: it declares these to be national churches of the German Reich.

Interstiality is a theme that is simultaneously genuinely interesting and potentially quite useful, and also a terrible cliché, so if you're going to use it, it helps to be at least respectfully skeptical about the wilder claims of its theoretical partisans, I think.

It is highly culturally diagnostic that the debate about climate change has been, from all quarters, heavily shaped by claims of conspiracy.

Carl Sagan put it best: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

I didn't know then, and would not have believed, that sympathy gets weaker when excessive claims are made upon it. That it doesn't grow back to the same extent after you give it out. That people, without realizing it or wanting it, develop protective techniques against self-destructive sympathy.

Life is the apprenticeship to progressive renunciation, to the steady diminution of our claims, of our hopes, of our powers, of our liberty.

There is an appearance of humility in the protestation that the truth is much greater than any one of us can grasp, but if this is used to invalidate all claims to discern the truth it is in fact an arrogant claim to a kind of knowledge which is superior to [all others]...We have to ask: 'What is the [absolute] vantage ground from which you claim to be able to relativize all the absolute claims these different scriptures make?

I believe it would be right for common sense to revolt against the extreme claims made today on behalf of "intellectual property." What the law demands today is increasingly as silly as a sheriff arresting an airplane for trespass. But the consequences of this silliness will be much more profound.

For instance, many wood and paper products that are offered to consumers for sale carry labels making pro-environmental claims such as "for every tree felled, at least two are planted." However, a survey of 80 such claims found that 77 could not be substantiated at all, 3 could be only partially substantiated, and almost all were withdrawn when challenged.

It's the ultimate identity theft when you start messing with somebody's work. Thinking that you could edit the work, or mix it differently, or re-EQ it, or make claims about it that aren't true.

People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.

I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ.

The great majority of the nobility and gentry of England clung to the doctrine and ceremonies of the ancient church, and yet were united in determination to oppose the papal claims.

If the broadcasters were to win on their claims, they'd outlaw the DVR.

Trump will never, ever do the right or decent thing, and his consultants certainly won't. He will make outrageous, unsupported claims.

In 2009 we increased the cash in Quinn Direct as we had in 2008. We increased the cash in it in 2010. The outstanding claims were €20m in March 2010 but Quinn Direct had more business in the U.K. than in Ireland.

A. Yes, that's what I say, but my son claims he knows of mice named Tom. COMPUTER: HA HA! WHAT A CRETIN.

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When rights become merely legal claims attached to interests and preferences, the stage is set for political and social conflict.

The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.