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• The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer… — Winston Churchill
• When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel… — Marguerite Yourcenar
• If we are honest - and scientists have to be - we must admit that religion is a jumble of… — Paul Dirac
• By our pontifical assertions, our superior impatience, and our casual brushing aside of their curiosity, we do not encourage their… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
• Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity… — Mark Doty
• Ordinary people do not question the commonly accepted version of reality. They conform to the standard values of subduing enemies… — Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
• Liminality may perhaps be regarded as the Nay to all positive structural assertions, but as in some sense the source… — Unknown Author
• I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions. — Ann Radcliffe
• The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious… — Socrates
• From study of known normal brains we have learned that there is a certain range of variation. No two brains… — Edward Anthony Spitzka
• The fate of the physiology of the brain is independent of the truth and falsity of my assertions relative to… — Franz Joseph Gall
• All sweeping assertions are erroneous. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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