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"If my theory of relativity proves to be correct, Germany will claim me a German, and France will claim me a citizen of the world. However, if it proves wrong, France will say I'm a German, and Germany will say that I'm a jew." »Albert Einstein
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"History has proven, God has never given anyone a dream Without also including the power to achieve that dream It is up to us to claim the power and go after that dream, Or just claim , it was only a dream." »Unknown
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"No one can dub you with dignity. That's yours to claim." »Odetta
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"Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself." »Robert G. Ingersoll
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"Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim." »William Feather
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"Wars are the strongest evidence for the claim that man is still a wild animal." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"A man whose reasoning is myopic can not claim to have conceived of a great idea" »Lot Chakonza
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"Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood." »Samuel Johnson
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"No man can claim to be free in real terms unless he is fully in control of his own destiny!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality." »Florida Scott-Maxwell
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"I claim the right to contradict myself. I don't want to deprive myself of the right to talk nonsense, and I ask humbly to be allowed to be wrong sometimes." »Federico Fellni
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"No good poem, however confessional is may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?" »Robert Cecil Day Lewis
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"Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled." »Michael Crichton, Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003
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"Let me say with a Georgia accent that we cannot solve this problem if it requires a diplomatic passport to claim the rights of an American citizen." »David Dean Rusk
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"If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world." »Albert Einstein
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"No one has a monopoly of the true God, nor is there a nation or religion that can claim, or at any rate prove, that it has been given the exclusive right to the Creator or sole knowledge of His Being." »Dr. Jose P. Rizal
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"We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty." »Mark Twain
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"Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere." »Julius Henry Marx
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"If any man claims the Negro should be content ... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim." »Robert Francis Kennedy
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"You can forget a lot of things, but you cannot forget a woman's name and claim to love her." »Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, October 20, 2003
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"You can forget a lot of things, but you cannot forget a womans name and claim to love her." »Real Live Preacher
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"The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy." »Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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"Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it. claim wealth and titles, and disaster will follow. Retire when the work is done. This is the way of heaven." »Tao Te Ching
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"Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination." »Immanuel Kant
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"I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself. My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will." »Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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"* If there is no justice in a country, who can claim that, that country is a country? An injustice country is just a rubbish bin!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Let us not forget that knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. ... I claim credit for nothing. Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insects as well as for the stars, Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper." »Albert Einstein, Dilip Kumar Roy, (famous Indian classical singer), had cited the above quotation of Einstein in one of his let
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"Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest...." »C. S. Lewis
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"Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey "people." People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest...." »C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
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"At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted." »Eric Idle
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