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Tabloid newspapers are very rich and hold huge funds to fight claims.

~Diana Rigg

Topics: Claims Fight Funds Hold Huge Newspapers Rich Tabloid Very

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To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that, in Europe, we're probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot.

~Douglas Adams

Topics: American Balance Better Claims Competing Europe Frank Freedom How Idea Lot More Seems Sometimes Than Think Those Though Understanding Want You Your I Think

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I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas... cultures... and systems of thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word 'freedom' means than I see much evidence of in America.

~Douglas Adams

Topics: America Awful Awful Lot Claims Competing Continent Crowded Cultures Developed Europe Evidence Freedom Growing Growing Up Ideas Like Lot Means More Much Notion See Sophisticated Systems Than Think Thought Up Word I Think I See

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The Arab world needs to appreciate that legitimate historical claims and modern necessities are what make Israel the homeland of the Jewish people.

~Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Topics: Appreciate Arab Arab World Claims Historical Homeland Israel Jewish Jewish People Legitimate Make Modern Necessities Needs People World

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Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all.

~Edmund Husserl

Topics: Being Century Claims Concept Deal Developed Early Eighteenth First First Of All Names Phenomena Phenomenon Pure Science Shall Various Which Without

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Aching all over, we reached level ground again, and Mr. Christy withdrew his claims, and agreed that no road anywhere else could possibly be so bad as a Mexican road; a decision which later experiences only served to confirm.

~Edward Burnett Tylor

Topics: Aching Again Agreed Anywhere Anywhere Else Bad Claims Confirm Could Decision Else Experiences Ground His Later Level Mexican Only Over Possibly Reached Road Served Which Mr

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I descend from both Philadelphia Quakers and Carolina colonists whose families were separated by the Revolutionary War. That helped give me insight into the agony of Patriots who, until the British government denied their claims, had always, like Ben Franklin himself, thought of themselves as free-born Englishmen.

~Edward Rutherfurd

Topics: Agony Always Ben Both British Carolina Claims Colonists Denied Descend Englishmen Families Franklin Give Give Me Government Had Helped Himself Insight Like Me Patriots Philadelphia Quakers Revolutionary Revolutionary War Separated Themselves Thought Until War Were Who Whose

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The Gospel of Thomas claims to be the secret sayings of Jesus. There are 114 of them, so it says many things, but the central message is that Jesus is the one who reveals the divine light that brought the universe into being, and that you and I also reveal that light.

~Elaine Pagels

Topics: Also Being Brought Central Claims Divine Gospel Jesus Light Many Message Reveal Reveals Sayings Says Secret Them Things Thomas Universe Who You

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Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts.

~Elihu Root

Topics: Applied Case Circumstances Claims Depend Disputed Facts Insistence International International Law Justice Law May Natural Obligations Particular Right Rules Sense Treaty

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The popular tendency is to listen approvingly to the most extreme statements and claims of politicians and orators who seek popularity by declaring their own country right in everything and other countries wrong in everything.

~Elihu Root

Topics: Claims Countries Country Declaring Everything Extreme Listen Most Orator Other Other Countries Own Politicians Popular Popularity Right Seek Statements Tendency Who Wrong

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