Asserts Quotes
71 quotes by 65 authors
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By the mind one is bound; by the mind one is freed. ... He who asserts with strong conviction: "I am not bound, I am…
— Ramakrishna
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[Professor Bragg asserts that] In sodium chloride there appear to be no molecules represented by NaCl. The equality in number of sodium and chlorine atoms…
— Henry Edward Armstrong
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Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy a gun, to…
— Herbert Marcuse
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There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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The mixing of government and religion can be a threat to free government, even if no one is forced to participate.... When the government puts…
— Harry A. Blackmun
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Sometimes, however, the Gaelic blood asserts itself. The Frenchmen will then attack. But the French attacking spirit is like bottled lemonade. It lacks tenacity. The…
— Manfred von Richthofen
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Creativity is dynamic, it asserts life, frees the human spirit, conquers mental lassitude and illness, and makes real the outrageous potential of the universal imagination.
— Robert Genn
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Another writer asserts that the tyranny of man over woman has its roots, after all, in his nobler feelings; his love, his chivalry, and his…
— Susan B. Anthony
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All socio-political phenomena in the U.K. come laden with the baggage of a class-based theory or two attached to them. In the case of gay…
— Evan Davis
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The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has…
— Miguel de Unamuno
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Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.
— Rebecca West
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The businessman who assumes that his life is everything, and the mystic who asserts that it is nothing, fail, on this side and on that,…
— E. M. Forster
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There seems to be a kind of order in the universe…in the movement of the stars and the turning of the Earth and the changing…
— Katherine Anne Porter
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If I acknowledge my dependency, I do so because for me it is a means of signifying my demand: in the realm of love, futility…
— Roland Barthes
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The whole point of the Eugenic pseudo-scientific theories is that they are to be applied wholesale, by some more sweeping and generalizing money power than…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Carnal embrace is sexual congress, which is the insertion of the male genital organ into the female genital organ for purposes of procreation and pleasure.…
— Tom Stoppard
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True hospitality is marked by an open response to the dignity of each and every person. Henri Nouwen has described it as receiving the stranger…
— Kathleen Norris
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I like black for clothes, small items, and jewelry. It's a color that can't be violated by any other colors. A color that simply keeps…
— Yana Toboso
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If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting…
— Jack Vance
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The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which…
— Marcel Proust
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