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- Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss… — Mark Doty
- The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip… — Winston Churchill
- When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel one by… — Marguerite Yourcenar
- Ordinary people do not question the commonly accepted version of reality. They conform to the standard values of subduing enemies and cherishing… — Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
- The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to… — Socrates
- Truth is not only a matter of offense, in that it makes certain assertions. It is also a matter of defense in… — Ravi Zacharias
- If we are honest - and scientists have to be - we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions,… — Paul Dirac
- By our pontifical assertions, our superior impatience, and our casual brushing aside of their curiosity, we do not encourage their inquiry, for… — Jiddu Krishnamurti