Quotes About Claim

What I hadn't anticipated was the media's reaction to Trump's sudden embrace of birtherism—the degree to which the line between news and entertainment had become so blurred, and the competition for ratings so fierce, that outlets eagerly lined up to offer a platform for a baseless claim.

No, what made Jesus different from all the others teaching a similar message was the claim that he had been raised from the dead.

Where do any of the ancient sources speak of a divine man who was crucified as an atonement for sin? So far as I know, there are no parallels to this central Christian claim.

declaring himself to be divine.

Although the church claims to teach people about the source of power, it does not claim to be that power itself. It claims to be one vehicle through which divine power can be channeled into man's nature.

It has been said that according to ancient designations, as well as its possession of the Indus River, Pakistan has a better claim to be called "India" than its neighbor.)

Una característica típica en que la pseudociencia difiere de la ciencia genuina es que el método científico requiere que se busquen formas de refutar las hipótesis. Por el contrario, la pseudociencia tiende a iniciar desde una afirmación con la cual el proponente está comprometido y busca evidencia para apoyar esa afirmación. La pseudociencia busca confirmaciones y la ciencia busca refutaciones.

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.

Moving from philosophy to psychology, we discover a big problem with the claim that most of our thinking is metaphorical: people effortlessly transcend the metaphors implicit in their language.

An exile, ill in heart and frame,-- A wanderer, weary of the way;-- A stranger, without love's sweet claim On any heart, go where I may!

To say it again: it is the greatest temptation of the rational faculty to glorify its own capacity and its own productions and to claim that in the face of its theories nothing transcendent or outside its domain need exist.

Appledusk is mine!

I]maginability must not be made the test for ontology. The realist claim is that the scientist is discovering the structures of the world; it is not required in addition that these structures be imaginable in the categories of the macroworld.

The problem with organized religions, Bill Wilson once explained, "is their claim how confoundedly right all of them are.

The fascination with historical-critical theology, to which many evangelicals have unfortunately more or less succumbed, lies in its claim to be scientific. It is considered necessary to respect scientific results. But what goes unnoticed is that these "results" are often nothing more than unproven hypotheses that are forcefully declared to be facts once they have found broad agreement.

I felt the wolf moving in the back of my brain, panting and eager, demanding that we claim our mate, that we mark her and make her ours beyond the shadow of a doubt.

He cast one last possessive glance over his shoulder at the figure in the window. "Mine," he repeated with unshakable certainty. "Mine whether you know it or not, Lilenta. And tomorrow I claim you.

People are realizing if they jump across our border and they have a child with them they can raise their hand and claim asylum and they will be caught and released into the homeland.

Religions, by definition, disagree as to the truth - a reality that cannot be overcome by demanding that one or the other faith repudiate its claim to truth.

So long as the global economy continues to recover, that remains Obama's No. 1 claim to successful leadership. Nothing else even comes close.

Trump did not reverse a policy that allows the mentally ill to purchase firearms as reporters, media pundits and anti-Second Amendment activists have recklessly claimed. Instead, he's given millions of individuals their constitutional rights back.

Republicans constantly claim to be the party that defends the Constitution. We have no legitimate right to that claim until we get right on gay rights.

If I could meet A girl as sweet I'd simply claim her And name her my queen For if she ever came I would love her the same As I love her on the cover of a magazine

To what extent is Chan amenable to a historical approach, if it is indeed? Can this teaching, as [D. T.] Suzuki thought, traverse the claim of history in the name of its own temporal character? If not, to what extent is it threatened by the results of the historical inquiry?