Assertion Quotes
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Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.
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Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion.
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But English history has demonstrated well enough how the assertion of divine inspiration from above evokes the counterassertion of divine inspiration from below, and Charles I mounted the scaffold by virtue of divine inspiration from below.
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In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.
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No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect.
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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.
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I do not espouse the unitarian position. President Clinton's assertion of directive authority over administration, more than President Reagan's assertion of a general supervisory authority, raises serious constitutional questions.
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One of the most important skills for political success is the ability to make confident assertions of absurdities or lies.
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Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.
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To have peace in the world, men & nations must embrace the nonviolent assertion that ends and means must cohere.
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I have always wanted to deal with everyone I meet candidly and honestly. If I have made any assertion not warranted by facts, and it is pointed out to me, I will withdraw it cheerfully.
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Effectiveness of assertion is the alpha and omega of style.
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The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture.
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The student should bear in mind that the very essence of consciousness is constantly to identify itself with the Not-Self, and as constantly to re-assert itself by rejecting the Not-Self. Consciousness, in fact, consists of this alternating assertion and negation - "I am this" - "I am not this." Hence consciousness is, and causes in matter, the attracting and repelling that we call a vibration.
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Just because they call it a theory doesn't make it a scientific theory, ... The concept of an intelligent designer is not a scientifically testable assertion.
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I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.
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It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.
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Passionate expression and vehement assertion are no arguments, unless it be of the weakness of the cause that is defended by them, or of the man that defends it.
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Style is effectiveness of assertion.
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The grand assertion is that you must see the world through probability and that probability is the only guide you need.
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Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any other influence in human affairs.
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There is absolutely no scientific basis or evidence for 'intelligent design.' It is simply a religious assertion, and it has no place in a science course.
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The problem with ideology is if you got an ideology, you already got your mind made up, you know all the answers, and that makes evidence irrelevant and argument a waste of time, so you tend to govern by assertion and attack. The problem with that is that discourages thinking and gives you bad results.
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This is how proofiness works. The assertion is more important than the evidence itself.
