Quotes About Claims

To claim either that only Christian miracles are authentic and all the others false, or that they alone are caused by God and all the rest by demons, is a miserable expedient. For it is an arbitrary claim, and hence, the miracles prove nothing. They themselves need to be proven since they receive a stamp of authenticity from the outside.

Listen to the insults being flung around in the political controversies of the present day—the thieving rich, the shiftless poor, and the rest of it—and notice how many of them amount to claims that wealth that ought to belong to one group of people is being unfairly held by another.

There are perhaps seven broad claims about the afterlife, with innumerable variations and combinations of belief.

In dying he satisfied the claims of sin; and in living he satisfies the claims of God.

Success is always less awkward. It does not make claims upon pity or tact: congratulations are easier to give than condolences.

But let me perfectly clear, because I know you'll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250 000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.

It shows how to evaluate claims about facts (what might happen) and about values (what might matter).

False Claims Act violators who self-report generally receive the same penalties and face the same damages as those who are caught. I think this makes very little sense.

Medicare's top officials said in 2006 that they had reduced the number of fraudulent and improper claims paid by the agency, keeping billions of dollars out of the hands of people trying to game the system.

don't just negate the other person's claims; reframe. The facts unframed will not set you free. You cannot win just by stating the true facts and showing that they contradict your opponent's claims. Frames trump facts.

Wheere they do not press factitious claims to theory and the theoretical and work clearly within their own secondary, subjective and intuitive nature — all three qualifiers being of the utmost bearing — explicative and evaluative 'meta-texts' are both necessary and fruitful.

The Singaporean government, which represents legal migrant workers in employment disputes and claims of exploitation, requires that they stay in the country until the disputes are settled. If they leave, their claims are closed.

Look at timber prices in the late '90s, at around $50. If you count the true damage of cutting down forests, the resultant flooding, insurance claims, and so on, then the timber price should have been $100.

In the 1940s, cigarettes would be shown in classy situations, endorsed by celebrities - real A-list Hollywood stars in America - the ads would make claims about tobacco quality or manufacturing science and, bizarrely, some brands had what almost amounted to health claims.

Nearly every major innovation of the 20th century took place without claims of epiphany.

As scholars challenge one another within a community that shares norms of evidence and argumentation and that holds one another accountable for good reasoning, claims get refined, theories gain nuance, and our understanding of truth advances.

The skeptical rule is, No one gets the final say: you may claim that a statement is established as knowledge only if it can be debunked, in principle, and only insofar as it withstands attempts to debunk it.

is far too easy for us to base our claims to God on our own Christian religiosity and our church commitment, and in so doing utterly to misunderstand and distort the Christian idea.

Spies tend to make extravagant claims for their craft, but the reality of espionage is that it frequently makes little lasting difference.

It was hard to ignore that kind of talk, and I worried that people would be misled by the absurd claims and charges

We live in an age where to be young and to be indifferent can no longer by synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the future are represented by suffering millions; and the youth of a nation are the trustees of posterity

I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.

There is much, of course, in the exclusive claims of Christianity which make it hostile to other faiths.

The ID card was launched with fantastic claims about supposed benefits. In truth, it represented the worst of government.