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I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
Stephen Hawking
Change
People
Before
Nothing
Everything
Claim
Cross
Road
Look
Predestined
Noticed
Who
Even
There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
Mark Twain
People
First
Group
Types
Claim
Crowded
Accomplish
Accomplished
Less
Who
Things
Basically
Two
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
Rabindranath Tagore
Love
Freedom
Claim
Possession
Gives
Does
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Ayn Rand
Rights
Minority
Earth
Those
Claim
Minorities
Individual
Individual Rights
Smallest
Deny
Cannot
Who
Defenders
If you aren't humble, whatever empathy you claim is false and probably results from some arrogance or the desire to control. But true empathy is rooted in humility and the understanding that there are many people with as much to contribute in life as you.
Anand Mahindra
Life
You
Humble
People
Arrogance
Understanding
Whatever
Control
Humility
Claim
Some
Results
Empathy
True
False
Contribute
Much
Rooted
Many
Desire
Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.
Frank Zappa
Stupidity
Building
Universe
Say
Claim
Plentiful
Some
More
Hydrogen
Because
Building Block
Block
Scientists
Than
Dispute
Basic
Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Offended
Other
Liberals
Claim
Give
Discover
Hearing
Shocked
Want
Then
Views
Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
Robert Green Ingersoll
You
Yourself
Human Being
Giving
Tolerance
Every
Other
Claim
Human
Being
Right
Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
Khalil Gibran
Silence
You
Dance
Earth
Top
Indeed
Claim
Only
Shall
Drink
River
Reached
Sing
Limbs
Climb
Truly
Begin
Mountain
Mountain Top
Then
Your
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
War
You
People
Obey
Will
Rest
Our
Say
Claim
Telling
People Say
Instinct
Instincts
Like
Listen
Expense
Different
Us
Each
Different Things
Gratified
Things
They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.
Sitting Bull
Environmental
Mother
Own
Earth
Claim
Neighbors
Ours
Buildings
Fence
Refuse
Use
Away
Her
The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.
Reinhold Niebuhr
God
Value
Our
Claim
Religious
Tendency
Ally
Partisan
Source
Ends
Fanaticism
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
Hope
Future
Man
Enemy
Others
Claim
Abandon
High
Vitality
Inspiration
Head
Takes
Himself
Enables
His
Source
Optimism
Account
Essence
Where
Hold
Present
Resigned
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Nature
Quality
Weary
Old
Men
Beauty
Trees
Changes
Air
Claim
Spirit
Something
Makes
Forest
Hearts
Wonderfully
Subtle
Much
A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.
Friedrich August von Hayek
Government
Equality
Met
Claim
Totalitarian
Only
Powers
Material
Position
Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
Thomas Sowell
You
People
Political
Care
Believe
Assume
Liberals
Claim
Solutions
About
Seem
Particular
Want
Then
Really
Help
We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
Carl Jung
Science
Wine
Year
Astrology
Claim
Born
Given
More
Lay
Like
Qualities
Does
Years
Anything
Place
Which
Moment
Season
Vintage
I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
Mahatma Gandhi
Me
Simple
Own
Liable
Other
Enough
Humility
Claim
Individual
Mortal
Steps
Retrace
Like
Fellow
However
Err
Errors
Confess
Any
The young people I know judge leaders by their deeds and abhor hypocrisy. Inconsistency and point-scoring do not win respect. It's not easy to be engaged in political debate when it is reduced to performers trying to outdo each other. Actions from leaders must mirror the values they claim to espouse.
Alexandra Adornetto
Respect
People
Judge
Win
Political
Debate
Values
Mirror
Hypocrisy
Young
Other
Claim
Must
Abhor
Easy
Outdo
Leaders
Performers
Know
Reduced
Political Debate
Trying
Young People
Engaged
Deeds
Actions
Each
Inconsistency
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
Debate
Matter
First
Settled
Way
Claim
Claiming
Has-Been
Been
Historically
Scoundrels
Refuge
Avoid
Consensus
Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
Robert Green Ingersoll
You
Yourself
Human Being
Every
Claim
Give
Human
Being
Right
Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
Thomas A. Edison
Time
Will
Before
Every
Worse
Claim
Constantly
Ability
Thrift
Lays
Him
Limitless
Coming
Loss
Scope
Question
Than
Person
Who
Keep
Waste
Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can't be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.
Stephen Hawking
Love
Science
People
Joy
Some People
Beauty
Think
Claim
Evolution
Would
Some
Like
Category
Terms
Scientific
Different
Explained
Theory
Now
Things
Belong
Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars.
Yoko Ono
Life
Best
People
Life Is A
Situation
Stars
AIDS
Starving
Our
Worst
Claim
Would
Crosses
Bear
Count
Never
Nobody
Over
Bed
Lebanon
Just
Dying
Planet
Roses
Many
Lucky
Widows
Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
Dallas Willard
Love
Believe
Think
Worship
Defined
Claim
Rather
Primarily
Bound
Know
Up
Than
Human
Human Beings
Central
Beings
Core
The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life.
Georg Simmel
Life
Culture
Problems
Face
Overwhelming
Heritage
Claim
Individual
Individuality
Forces
His
Existence
Historical
Modern
Modern Life
Autonomy
Social
Derive
Deepest
Technique
External
Preserve
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