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The white men told lies for each other. They drove off a great many of our cattle. Some branded our young cattle so they could claim them.
Chief Joseph

Great, Men, Young

In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
Emile Zola

Cannot, Until, Seen

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, Experience, Knowledge

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.
William Feather

Life, Good, Help

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
Ovid

Confidence, Slow, Magnitude

It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
Max Beerbohm

Quality, Confess, Defect

The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.
Alan Keyes

Government, Before, Tax

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.
J. Robert Oppenheimer

Greatest, May, Century

Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.
Camille Paglia

Why, Become, Poor

The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Country, Free, Moon

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Acting, Nation, Habit

France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are 'made in America.'
Helen Rowland

May, America, Happiest

Being called ugly and fat and disgusting to look at from the time I could barely understand what the words meant has scarred me so deep inside that I have learned to hunt, stalk, claim, own and defend my own loveliness.
Margaret Cho

Time, Deep, Words

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.
Christopher Lasch

Values, Capitalism, Modern

There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.
Billie Joe Armstrong

Music, Play, Punk

If you can work and if you're offered a job and you don't take it, you cannot continue to claim benefits. It will be extremely tough.
David Cameron

Work, Job, Cannot

I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.
Sting

Love, Person, Create

Of course there are critics who believe that no matter what we do, the Florida dream is over. They claim that we must accept the idea that inevitably our future is one of high taxes and big government.
Marco Rubio

Government, Future, Big

Know how to effectively voice a complaint or make a claim at a retail store.
Marilyn vos Savant

Voice, Store, Complaint

I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to.
Shakira

Women, Stupid, Enough

I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.
Herbert Read

Nature, Rather, State

I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there's just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.
Stephen Fry

Beauty, Cannot, Film

I claim there ain't Another Saint As great as Valentine.
Ogden Nash

Great, Another, Valentine

Santa Barbara is my hood. I mean, it's not much of a hood, but it is definitely like my hood. I claim Santa Barbara like I claim my family. I'm going to be married and buried there.
Katy Perry

Family, Mean, Married

By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class.
John Podhoretz

Present, Tax, Class

Obama's claim is that he wants to give. The GOP is saying it wants to take.
John Podhoretz

Saying, Give, Wants

There is a new conservative establishment in America, made up of those who claim to be the anti-establishment.
John Podhoretz

There is no higher claim to journalistic integrity than going to jail to protect a source.
Thomas Frank

Integrity, Jail, Protect

I do think, however, that there's a very diverse point of view in the African-American community. There's a lot of different voices that need to be heard. I don't claim and pretend to know the thoughts and opinions and ideas of all African-Americans.
J. C. Watts

Different, Thoughts, Point

That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

May, Fact, Creature

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