Assert Quotes
257 quotes by 221 authors
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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace,…
— Cecil Beaton
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A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his…
— Alfred Adler
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The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc. We must not…
— David Cameron
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To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
— Albert Camus
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Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.
— Albert Camus
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To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society…
— Albert Camus
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Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps,…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.
— Emile M. Cioran
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If we are going to solve the challenges we face, you need a President who will pursue genuine solutions day in and day out. And…
— Barack Obama
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I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present…
— George Washington
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I assert once again as a truth to which history as a whole bears witness that men may second their fortune, but cannot oppose it;…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans who have ever been born.…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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You transition as a mother from literally just pulling a booger out of that person's nose whenever you see one until at some point they…
— Tina Fey
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The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of…
— Mark Twain
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Happiness is not the whole aim of education. A man must be independent in his powers and character; able to work and assert his mastery…
— Maria Montessori
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Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have preceded relapse, attack…
— Florence Nightingale
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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
— John Heywood
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Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because…
— Oscar Wilde
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The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition, that can be heaped upon us, till custom and use…
— George Washington
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