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Politicians often claim secrecy is necessary for good governance or national security. Heather Brooke

Good National Politicians Secrecy Claim Security Governance National Security Often Good Governance Necessary

Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs. Henry Louis Gates

Needs Own Everyone Claim Particular Identified Him Because Lincoln His American Closely Rewrite Wants Story Satisfy

Is there a higher energy? I would say yes, even if the energy is collective. Even if it's kind of Jungian, or the whole thing is collective consciousness, that may be God as far as I'm concerned. So is there an energy that's higher than mine? Yes. But would I claim it as God? I would say no. Holly Hunter

I make no claim to be an authority on writing or illustrating for children. Hugh Lofting

Writing Claim Make Authority Children Illustrating

It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations. Huston Smith

Religion Own Claim Brought Civilization Civilizations Look Known Said Revelations Were Being Different Commonly Each Now Deeper

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men. Isaac Asimov

You Men Doctors Claim Computer Know Sort Surprised Errors Up Pregnant Turning Who Now Medical Number Treating

Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. J. L. Austin

Word Language Claim Ordinary Certainly Such A Thing Thing Last

Professional politicians often claim they are not professional politicians. Trump genuinely isn't one. Jacob Weisberg

Politicians Claim Genuinely Trump Often Professional

My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible. Jacques Derrida

Too Much Believe Too Visible Alive Claim Echoes Nevertheless Name Most Am Opponents Texts Which Inaccessible Little Much Resolute

I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that. James Dickey

Back then when Chomsky and Herman wrote, the left, myself among them, all knew that something terrible was happening in Vietnam, though most now claim to remember otherwise. James Donald

Myself Remember Otherwise Back Claim Though Something Knew Most Wrote Terrible Left Happening Them Then Vietnam Now Among

No matter how much Bill Gates may claim otherwise, he missed the Internet, like a barreling freight train that he didn't hear or see coming. James H. Clark

Matter Internet Otherwise Claim See He Missed Like Freight How How Much Coming Hear Train May Much Bill Bill Gates Gates

The claim that Israel seeks to annihilate the Palestinians is simply a lie. Israel seeks to stop rocket attacks and tunnel invasions, and as long as Hamas is dedicated to those actions, they can expect a forceful Israeli reaction. James Howard Kunstler

If private-equity firms are as good at remaking companies as they claim, they don't need tax loopholes to make money. James Surowiecki

Good Money Claim Make Loopholes Tax Companies Need

My mum was a big fan of E.L.O. and Elvis Costello. She used to play that, consistently, all the time when we were kids. And my dad, he would claim to be a singer... You know, he loves singing, and he used to sing a lot when he was a kid and at parties and stuff like that. So I come from a very party-musical family. James Vincent McMorrow

Time Family You Singing Big Elvis Kid Consistently Claim Kids Would Costello He Stuff Come Like Know Parties Sing Singer She Were Big Fan Lot Very Fan Loves Used Dad Mum Play

You might not want to go without essential health benefits or lose consumer protections if an insurance company many states away denies your claim or goes belly-up. Jan Schakowsky

Let's get one thing straight - there is a big difference between a quitter and someone who gives up. Unfortunately, I have the right to make this claim because I fit into the category of 'quitter.' Jenna Morasca

I fear it's because religion is man's attempt to reach God, and when he feels he has succeeded, he cannot abide anyone else's claim to have done the same. Jerry B. Jenkins

God Religion Man Fear Else Claim Abide Attempt He Feels Reach Because Same Done Anyone Cannot Succeeded

It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic texts, while black and female authors are ghetto-ized as 'other.' Jesmyn Ward

Work Me Black White Other Claim Classic Lay Writers Female Texts American Authors While American Writers Universal

I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I'm home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, 'Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.' Jimmy Carter

Home Knowledge Bible Experience Book Sunday Year Down Every Every Sunday Jimmy Jimmy Carter Claim Out Carter Minutes About Through New Most New Book Knowledgeable Them Page Theology Teach Lessons

The comics I hate are thieves. Nothing's more disgusting than a guy who steals another person's ideas and tries to claim them as his own. Joe Rogan

Hate Own Nothing Thieves Claim Tries Guy More Steals Ideas Another Comics His Than Person Disgusting Them Who

The limit is not as narrow as it might be. I do not claim for this action, as it now goes on, an ideal degree of efficiency. What I do claim is that this type of competition already reveals its nature and its ultimate power to hold seeming monopolies in check. John Bates Clark

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