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Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.

Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.

I don't claim to know everything. I claim to be a seeker of knowledge.

The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence.

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

My only claim to fame, if I have one, is that I'm an editor.

Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore.

Christianity is a very historical religion - it makes specific claims that are open to testing.

Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.

To claim, therefore, inerrancy for the King James Version, or even for the Revised Version, is to claim inerrancy for men who never professed it for themselves.

A creep is someone who claims he's one thing but he's actually another.

If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.

Conservatives are telling elected leaders that expansion of Medicaid comes at a moral - or more overtly, a political - price. At what price are they willing to go back on years of proclaiming 'socialized medicine' as the slippery slope to 'rationing of health care,' 'death panels' and other claims far too gruesome to mention in polite company?

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.

Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud of cluelessness.

Krispy Kreme claims the 'batter is the best part.' Same with an Obama speech. It's all about what's on the outside, not what's inside.

If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.

Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.

Some religious practitioners make absolutist claims for their beliefs: I've no interest in doing this, nor do I have any interest in converting people, which is doubtless a relief to anyone who has feared finding me on their doorstep asking if they'd like to know more about Odin.

Simon Monjack had nothing to do with 'Factory Girl.' He filed a frivolous lawsuit against us... making bogus claims that we had stolen his script. He held us literally to hostage and we were forced to settle with him as he held our production over a barrel.

In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex.

There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.

My family claims I think I'm always right, although I'm always willing to be proven wrong. I hold my opinions dearly, but you can always try to convince me differently, and if you do, I will hold that opinion dearly. I am decidedly stubborn and have been described as not having a type-A personality, but a quadruple-A personality.

An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.

Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. For a man who claims to have knowledge, while actually knowing nothing, is less smarter than you, who claim to know nothing.

I think we're getting to the point where everyone's getting fat and everyone's getting allergic, or claims to be allergic to something and people can't walk from their front door to their car without a bottle of water in their hand because they have to hydrate every three and half steps.

The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.

I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up.

Mickey Mouse... is always there-he's part of my life. That really is something not everyone can call their claim to fame.

Every religious tradition is rooted in mysteries I don't pretend to understand, including claims about what happens after we die. But this I know for sure: as long as we're alive, choosing resurrection is always worth the risk.

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.

It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.

Our work in Britain suggests that radicalization is driven by an ideology which claims that Muslims around the world are being oppressed and - and this is the key bit of the argument - which then legitimizes violence in their supposed defense.

The Gospel of Thomas claims to be the secret sayings of Jesus. There are 114 of them, so it says many things, but the central message is that Jesus is the one who reveals the divine light that brought the universe into being, and that you and I also reveal that light.

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

You get stared at the whole time. I first noticed that when I was about 13. I was very shy. Being considered beautiful, I always felt that people were waiting for something more. I imagined you were supposed to have an intellectual ability - and I'm making no claims here - proportional to your supposed good looks.

I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.

When people feel a certain religion claims to have all the answers, that's what turns them off.

He comes to London and gets a job in a nightclub, a gay club, where he's known as Straight Dave by the bar staff - and no one believes he's as straight as he claims to be. He meets the daughter of the club manager, and he has an affair with her.

Of course, conservatives always claim to be against judicial activism.

It is possible for the assembly-line worker consigned to tightening the bolts on the transmission and the office worker who processes medical insurance claims to work with pride and efficiency, but it's not easy to maintain that attitude.

Films are neither true nor false. That includes my films, as well as others. They may make claims that are true or false, but films are too complex. They have too many ingredients.

Money is not wealth. Money is a claim on wealth.

Tragically, policymakers have thrown horrendous amounts of taxpayer money needed for other purposes at solving an unsubstantiated emergency. It is scandalous that so many climate scientists who fully knew that Al Gore had no basis for his irresponsible claims stood mute.

Know how to effectively voice a complaint or make a claim at a retail store.

First of all, I can't really claim to be a great chef.

I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.

Everybody claims they have relatable, connectable characters, but those claims often aren't true.

The French have made conversation their claim to civilisation.

Basically, whenever someone says they're wrong, conservatives too often fall back on claims that those who disagree with them are biased and thus worthy of being ignored, a convenient position that allows them to avoid debating uncomfortable criticisms.

If I am not above the law, nobody in this country can then claim to be above the law.

I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.

Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.

The best advice is to avoid foods with health claims on the label, or better yet avoid foods with labels in the first place.

For the state by its nature claims sovereignty, the right to an unlimited development of power, determined only by self-interest. It is by nature anarchistic.

Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.

To many book professionals, Amazon is a ruthless predator. The company claims to want a more literate world - and it came along when the book world was in distress, offering a vital new source of sales.

You can't make a representation and then claim you didn't make it. You know, it just shouldn't work that way.

I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?

The man who bears my name, and who claims to be me, was born on July 15, 1865, the sixth in a family of seven. He was an ugly child, and remained ugly till his eighteenth year, when his looks gradually improved.

The moment that one person in an argument claims to be God, dialogue and debate become impossible.

A religious commitment coupled with theological awareness gives Jews a much better way to answer the claims made upon us by missionaries representing other religions than do the rather weak political and cultural arguments of the secularists.

I have always marveled that so many religions exact such revenge against dissenters. It only weakens the appeal of their faith and contradicts any claims they might have made that 'all religions are basically the same.' If all religions were indeed the same, why not let someone be 'converted' to another religion?

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

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

In 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work.

Whoever claims to understand another person completely, is either entirely ignorant of himself, or else has a nature so small that he can measure it easily, and supposes it to be the standard of every other nature.

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.

Most Evangelicals claim to be politically non-partisan, and say they only identify with the Republican Party because the Republicans are committed to 'family values.

The thrill of science is the process. It's a social process. It's a process of collective discovery. It's debate, it's experimentation and it's verification of claims that might be false. It's the greatest foundation for a society.

I don't claim to be a musician, I didn't go to Julliard.

I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent.

Some even claim that I'm a terror, a dictator and they're right.

Israel claims it needs nuclear weapons as a deterrent against any threat to its existence. The Arab world in return feels that this is an imbalanced system; there is a sense of humiliation and impotence.

I'm obviously not a rapper, and I don't have any claims to be one, really.

No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.

Socialism is about claims of justice, and it is also about money: about wealth, income, physical and financial capital. It is an ideology based on allocating economic resources. It may try to achieve that goal by nationalizing assets, by command-and-control regulation, or by taxation and redistribution.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.

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

Obama is a guy who claims to be unaware that there was a Tea Party, a guy that's detached from the country.

There are two types of claims: those based on hard numbers and those based on slippery numbers.

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.

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

It has become clear that the function of a private health insurance is to make as much money as possible. Every dollar not paid out in claims is another dollar made in profits for the company.

Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market.

Israel will not tolerate Iran developing nuclear power, even if Iran claims it is for peaceful purposes. If there is an attack, oil prices will go through the roof.

I wouldn't think that used car salesmen have any more of a monopoly on misleading claims than financial advisers, ... My advice is don't believe anybody.

New and continuing claims are at levels that historically have been associated with payroll employment gains of around 225,000. Labor markets are gradually improving.

New claims during the survey week are broadly similar to where they have been for the last two months, when payrolls fell, ... Continuing claims have been ratcheting steadily higher. Labor market weakness remains.

Some money here is eventually going go pay off teachers and student claims to the extent we have money to pay those.

Somebody is going to get a good deal on a Monte Carlo sometime in February,? he said. His friend claims Hall will clamor for him to pick him up when he is unable to get to work early next year.

Of all that gives politeness birth, Of all that claims to please, In motion, manners, or in mirth, The surest source is ease.

Of all that gives politeness birth,Of all that claims to please,In motion, manners, or in mirth,The surest source is ease.

Of course, there's an investigation following claims of dumping,

No doubt bears will highlight the rise in continuing claims, up another 29,000, but we are unmoved: A rising ratio of continuing to initial claims signals accelerating productivity growth, not a shaky recovery, ... Labor market conditions are improving -- but we still expect a soft payroll report Friday.

One man gets nothing but discord out of a piano; another gets harmony. No one claims the piano is at fault. Life is about the same. The discord is there, and the harmony is there. Study to play it correctly, and it will give forth the beauty; play it falsely, and it will give forth the ugliness. Life is not at fault.