Affirms Quotes
74 Affirms quotes by 63 unique authors
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What were the relations between the Jews and the secret societies? That is not easy to elucidate, for we lack reliable evidence. Obviously they did…
— Bernard Lazare
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Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
— Plato
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God, Most High, is the very one who Himself affirms His unity by the tongue of whatever of His creatures He wishes. If He Himself…
— Mansur Al-Hallaj
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It is essential that our love be liberating, not possessive. We must at all times give those we love the freedom to be themselves. Love…
— John Powell
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He who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it.
— Charles Spurgeon
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Grace releases and affirms. It doesn't smother. Grace values the dignity of individuals. It doesn't destroy. Grace supports and encourages. It isn't jealous or suspicious.
— Charles R. Swindoll
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The whole earth, then, belongs to Jesus. It belongs to him by right of creation, by right of redemption and by right of future inheritance…
— Christopher J. H. Wright
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POSITIVISM- A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the Apparent. Its longest exponent is Comte, its broadest Mill…
— Ambrose Bierce
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It is God in you that responds to God without, or affirms his own words trembling on the lips of another.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Any time I see someone succeed I am happy, for it affirms my belief that I live in a world where success is possible.
— Bonnie Gillespie
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The word sharing affirms that we have something extraordinarily valuable and desire to give it to others for their benefit and blessing.
— Dallin H. Oaks
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Truth is that which affirms propositionally the nature of reality as it is.
— Ravi Zacharias
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I am grateful to those Members of Congress who worked so diligently to guide the Equal Pay Act through. It is a first step. It…
— John F. Kennedy
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The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.
— Raymond Queneau
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If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?
— Tony Campolo
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Faith affirms many things, respecting which the senses are silent, but nothing that they deny. It is superior, but never opposed to their testimony
— Blaise Pascal
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Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event…
— Robert Penn Warren
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I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
— Yves Saint Laurent
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Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.
— Andrea Dworkin
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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Lucian Freud's career affirms that the only thing an artist can do is remain true to whatever vision, (lack of) talent, or ideas that happened…
— Jerry Saltz
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The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
— Simone Weil
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I love the idea of bringing order out of disorder which is what the mystery is about. I like the way in which it affirms…
— P.D. James
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The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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