Affirm Quotes
216 quotes by 181 authors
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Believing that the power to destroy belongs to the Creator alone I affirm... that any theory which, when carried out, demands the annihilation of force,…
— James Prescott Joule
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I am convinced that we as adults must constantly cling to, affirm, and celebrate with our children those things we love, sunsets, laughter, the taste…
— Eliot Wigginton
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Whether each of the faithful has a particular angel assigned him for his defense, I cannot venture certainly to affirm; not one angel only has…
— John Calvin
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I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the…
— Thomas Sydenham
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The great struggle of history has been for the control over money. It is almost tautological to affirm that to control the production and distribution…
— Jack Weatherford
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The great truths of human life do not spring new born to each new generation. They derive from long experience. They are the gathered wisdom…
— Frederick Osborn
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It’s Fitzgerald’s thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us that, even though…
— Maureen Corrigan
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Heaven-born, the soul a heavenward course must hold; beyond the world she soars; the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which…
— Michelangelo
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Our purpose now is to reclaim democracy itself. We are here to affirm that when Americans stand up and speak their minds and say America…
— John F. Kerry
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Art stands in opposition to all the bad things that happen in life, which is where physicians stand. That's what doctors do-affirm life. And that's…
— Eric Avery
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Men are generally right in what they affirm and wrong in what they deny. What we deny is generally something that lies outside our experience,…
— H. Richard Niebuhr
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Self-programming, what you believe and affirm about yourself, is the basis of who you are.
— Marshall Sylver
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If you want a real experience of serenity, look for the good. Affirm the good. Acknowledge the good.
— Iyanla Vanzant
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For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul, particularly when he has within…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.
— Louis Kronenberger
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Never affirm or repeat about your health what you do not wish to be true.
— Ralph Waldo Trine
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By lighting a candle, you affirm that you are opening a sacred space.
— Robert Moss
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Every time we're about to criticize someone for what we think they did wrong, let's first remember to thank them for the things they did…
— Marianne Williamson
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[E]very act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and…
— Plato
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