Asserts Quotes

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Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only mathematics and mathematical… — Bertrand Russell
The very uprightness of the pines and maples asserts the ancient rectitude and vigor of nature. Our lives need the relief of such a background,… — Henry David Thoreau
Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book. — Mal Peet
Our country asserts for itself the glory of being the freest upon the surface of the globe... but one dark spot still dimmed its lustre.… — James Forten
Frederick Herzberg, asserts that the powerful motivator in our lives isn't money; it's the opportunity to learn, grow in responsibilities, contribute to others, and be… — Frederick Herzberg
The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The present indicative asserts something which is occuring while the speaker is making the statement. — Spiros Zodhiates
Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a… — C.S. Lewis
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There… — Henry David Thoreau
He who asserts he is free, shall be free. He who says he is bound, bound he shall remain. — Swami Vivekananda
A public that tries to do without criticism, and asserts that it knows what it wants or likes, brutalizes the arts and loses its cultural… — Northrop Frye
A nation is born into freedom on the day when such a people, moulded into a nation by a process of cultural evolution and sense… — Diosdado Macapagal
...it happens that society is saved as often as the circle of its ruling class is narrowed, as often as a more exclusive interest asserts… — Karl Marx
The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts… — Salmon P. Chase
The wilderness is near as well as dear to every man. Even the oldest villages are indebted to the border of wild wood which surrounds… — Henry David Thoreau
Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying. — Marcel Proust
No discussion between two persons can be of any use, until each knows clearly what it is that the other asserts. — Lewis Carroll
Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion is a conviction… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new social organism which will make… — Emma Goldman

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