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72 quotes by 64 authors

My father asserted that there was no better place to bring up a family than in a rural environment.... There's something about getting up at… — Bill Vaughan
If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer… — Eric Temple Bell
All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with… — Wallace Stevens
By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I… — Margaret Mahy
The distinction between the old and the new formulations consisting in the incorporation of the concept of the rate of chemical reactions is so great… — Wilhelm Ostwald
It is very often asserted that fear is destructive. Yet this is not entirely true; when fear is felt about things that truly threaten security,… — Smiley Blanton
The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood. — Leslie Stephen
Protagoras asserted that there are two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other. — Diogenes
[Coleridge] selected an instance of what was called the sublime, in DARWIN, who imagined the creation of the universe to have taken place in a… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If having endured much, we at last asserted our 'right to know' and if, knowing, we have concluded that we are being asked to take… — Rachel Carson
Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained. — Aaron Burr
Few persons can be made to believe that it is not quite an easy thing to invent a method of secret writing that shall baffle… — Edgar Allan Poe
I have asserted the right of Negroes to meet the violence of the Ku Klux Klan by armed self-defense â€” and have acted on it.… — Robert F. Williams
It is often asserted that as woman has always been man's slave--subject--inferior--dependent, under all forms of government and religion, slavery must be her normal condition.… — Susan B. Anthony
In the Pentagon Papers case, the government asserted in the Supreme Court that the publication of the material was a threat to national security. It… — Alan Dershowitz
What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. — Christopher Hitchens
President Bush has asserted the right to wiretap and eavesdrop on any American without a warrant in the name of fighting terrorism. He has asserted… — Helen Thomas
I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither… — Charlotte Bronte
The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to give that pleasure… — John Stuart Mill
The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action. — H.G. Wells

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