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Jai Ganesh

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Claim Quotes - III

Claim Quotes - III

1. You want to stake your own claim. You don't want to be called a copycat. - Brad Pitt

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

3. When some Republican governors asked to try new ways to put people on welfare back to work, the Obama Administration said they would only do it if they had a credible plan to increase employment by 20%. You hear that? More work. So the claim that President Obama weakened welfare reform's work requirement is just not true. - William J. Clinton

4. Some people are embarrassed to say they came from East St. Louis, Ill., but now more people want to claim it. I grew up in a community center and I knew what it gave me. I always knew I wanted to give back and help people because people helped me. - Jackie Joyner-Kersee

5. There are a lot more tabloids in England that like to report other things in your life, some of which are true and some of which are exaggerated and untrue. There have been stories where people claim to have seen me in one place and I wasn't even in that city then. The Aussie press is more judgmental and moralistic. - Shane Warne

6. We need to begin thinking about building permanence on the Red Planet, not just have voyagers do some experiments, plant a flag and claim success. Having them go there, repeat this, in my view, is dim-witted. Why not stay there? - Buzz Aldrin

7. Strangely, charity sometimes gets dismissed, as if it is ineffective, inappropriate or even somehow demeaning to the recipient. 'This isn't charity,' some donors take pains to claim, 'This is an investment.' Let us recognize charity for what it is at heart: a noble enterprise aimed at bettering the human condition. - Ban Ki-moon

8. Scarcely a day goes by without some claim that new technologies are fast writing newsprint's obituary. - Rupert Murdoch.

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