Assert Quotes
257 quotes by 221 authors
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I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the South is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes—a justifier of the most appalling barbarity…a…
— Frederick Douglass
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Calvinism emphasizes divine sovereignty and free grace; Arminianism emphasizes human responsibility. The one restricts the saving grace to the elect; the other extends it to…
— Philip Schaff
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My own duty as a teacher...is not so much to interpret Beethoven, Wagner, or other masters of the past, but to give what encouragement I…
— Antonin Dvorak
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What we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert as part of oneself.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not.
— Louise J. Kaplan
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We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to…
— Andrew Coyle Bradley
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I believe that one of the most dignified ways we are capable of, to assert and then reassert our dignity in the face of poverty…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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Can you feel that there is something in you that is at war, something that feels threatened and wants to survive at all cost, that…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Raising children who are hopeful and who have the courage to be vulnerable means stepping back and letting them experience disappointment, deal with conflict, learn…
— Brené Brown
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One of the many burdens of the person professing Christianity has always been the odium likely to be heaped upon him by fellow Christians quick…
— Russell Baker
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When you feel discouraged or simply lazy, as is bound to happen sometimes, remember the millions of people in the world who have not had…
— Jehan Sadat
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To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field of millet,…
— Metrodorus of Chios
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The president of the United States and the secretary of defense would not assert as plainly and bluntly as they have that Iraq has weapons…
— Ari Fleischer
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The time to assert one's right is when it's denied!
— Sue Monk Kidd
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A few modern philosopher's assert that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest and react against…
— Alfred Binet
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Miss Goldman is a Communist; I am an Individualist. She wishes to destroy the right of property; I wish to assert it. I make my…
— Voltairine de Cleyre
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We declare, assert, define and pronounce to be subject to the Roman Pontiff is to every creature altogether necessary for salvation… I have the authority…
— Pope Boniface VIII
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We do not doubt to assert, that air does not serve for the motion of the lungs, but rather to communicate something to the blood…
— John Mayow
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In England it is bad manners to be clever, to assert something confidently. It may be your own personal view that two and two make…
— George Mikes
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There should be painless progression, attended by life and peace....Mortals will some day assert their freedom in the name of Almighty God....Dropping their present beliefs,…
— Mary Baker Eddy
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