Claims Tools Quotes & Sayings

Work, it seems, was never meant to be something we do just to make a living. It was meant to be a means of making a difference - in our own lives and in the lives of others. — Jeff Goins

A flower, if you bruise it under your feet, rewards you by giving you its perfume. — Richard Wurmbrand

I attend Trinity United Church of Christ, and my pastor [was] Jeremiah Wright. — Barack Obama

this lightness is something created in the writing, using the linguistic tools of the poet, independent of whatever philosophical doctrine the poet claims to be following. — Italo Calvino

Whatever it was that I felt was the weak link in my previous project gave me inspiration for the next one. — Joni Mitchell

I think I fall into a lot of cracks in terms of I'm too something. I'm too this, I'm too that. And my music has never really had a home. I've been this floating alternative. I'm too mainstream for alternative. I'm too alternative for mainstream. And I'm just kind of wandering. — K.d. Lang

the tears of the innocent are heavier than the guilty, but in the end they are still just tears — Brian Stanley

The whole idea of a democratic application of skepticism is that everyone should have the essential tools to effectively and constructively evaluate claims to knowledge. — Carl Sagan

The concept of reconciliation is not irretrievable, but I am convinced that before we theologians can interpret the depths of the divine action of reconciliation we must first articulate the profound deformities of Christian intimacy and identity in modernity. Until we do, all theological discussions of reconciliation will be exactly what they tend to be: (a) ideological tools for facilitating negotiations of power; or (b) socially exhausted idealist claims masquerading as serious theological accounts. In truth, it is not at all clear that most Christians are ready to imagine reconciliation. — Willie James Jennings

I'm a fatalist. I believe things happen for a reason, that you attract people and situations that are meant to fulfil your path. — Isabel Lucas

A Silencer wouldn't nurse me back to health - much less give me nicknames and play snuggles in the dark. — Rick Yancey

Have students use Internet search tools to locate reputable online resources to back their claims. They catalog, comment on, and annotate sources of evidence using social bookmarking tools like Diigo or Delicious. Next, students share the sources with their classmates to determine the legitimacy of the evidence, the extent to which it is weakened by erroneous reasoning, or to provide ideas or additional resources for further consideration. Encourage students to add comments by annotating sources of information directly in the social bookmarking site. — Sonny Magana

The American ideal is, after all, that everyone should be as much alike as possible. — James Baldwin