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Was Sen. Barack Obama a Muslim? Did he ever practice Islam? The presidential candidate officially rejects the claims, but the issue of Obama's personal faith has re-emerged amid conflicting accounts of his enrollment as a Muslim during elementary school in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation.

~Aaron Klein

Topics: Accounts Barack Barack Obama Candidate Claims Conflicting Did Elementary Elementary School Enrollment Ever Faith He His Indonesia Islam Issue Most Muslim Nation Obama Officially Personal Practice Presidential Rejects School World

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Religion forbids us from assuming a God-like character. This is especially true in politics and government, where limiting the power of the state, division of powers, and the doctrine of checks and balances are established in order to prevent accumulation of power that might lead to such Godly claims.

~Abdolkarim Soroush

Topics: Accumulate Assuming Balances Character Checks Checks And Balances Claims Division Doctrine Established Godly Government Lead Limiting Might Order Politics Power Powers Prevent Religion State True Us Where

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In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Accordance Act Both Claims Contests Each God Great May Must Party Will Wrong

Keywords: Abandoned


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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.

~Adam Carolla

Topics: Allergic Because Bottle Car Claims Door Every Everyone Fat Front Front Door Getting Half Hand People Point Something Steps Think Three Walk Water Where Without I Think

Keywords: Ability


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Whenever you hear news about jobless claims or the unemployment rate, you should translate that in your mind to one simple phrase: Stay in school.

~Adam Davidson

Topics: About Claims Hear Mind News Phrase Rate School Should Simple Stay Translate Unemployment Whenever You Your

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

~Al Yankovic

Topics: Any Claims Obviously Rapper Really

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The claims I'm making for art are simply the claims that we naturally make around music or around poetry. We're much more relaxed around those art forms. We're willing to ask, 'How could this find a place in my heart?'

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Around Art Art Forms Ask Claims Could Find Forms Heart How Make Making More Much Music Naturally Place Poetry Relaxed Simply Those Willing

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In today's distorted world of 'human rights,' truth takes a back seat to ideology, and false claims - especially those that 'support' radical ideologies - persist even after they have been exposed.

~Alan Dershowitz

Topics: After Back Been Claims Distorted Even Exposed False Human Human Rights Ideologies Ideology Persist Radical Rights Seat Support Takes Those Today Truth World

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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.

~Alan Huffman

Topics: Claims Closed Country Disputes Employment Exploitation Government Leave Legal Migrant Represents Requires Settled Stay Until Which Workers

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As both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious belief that would, in my view, be compatible with science.

~Alan Lightman

Topics: Belief Both Claims Come Compatible Different Eventually Humanist Kind Knowledge Myself Religious Religious Belief Science Scientist Struggled Understand View Would

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