#claim

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

— Simon Sinek

#claims #hard #numbers #slippery #those

It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#concern #exclusively #north #nothing #slavery

The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#concerned #far #ground #hands #neutral

There is no struggle, rift, fight between those who claim the banner of the tea party and those who are in the Republican Party. We work together. ↗

— Michael Steele

#between #claim #fight #party #republican

The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#claimed #contracts #especially #ship #show

I'm a total Republican, but I've never claimed to be a Christian-right conservative. They're a large but dwindling part of the Party. ↗

— Roger Stone

#conservative #i #large #never #part

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

— Antonio Tabucchi

#i #once #right #stand #take

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#does #freedom #gives #love #possession

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#desires #does #fortune #full #himself

I maintain, despite the moment's evidence against the claim, that we are born and grow up with a fondness for each other, and we have genes for that. We can be talked out of it, for the genetic message is like a distant music, and some of us are hard-of-hearing. Societies are noisy affairs, drowning out the sound of ourselves and our connection. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

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