"Human groupings have one main purpose: to assert……" — Vasily Grossman

"Human groupings have one main purpose: to assert everyone’s right to be different, to be special, to think, feel and live in his or her own way. People join together in order to win or defend this right. But this is where a terrible, fateful error is born: the belief that these groupings in the name of a race, a God, a party or a State are the very purpose of life and not simply a means to an end. No! The only true and lasting meaning of the struggle for life lies in the individual, in his modest peculiarities and in his right to these peculiarities."

— Vasily Grossman

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers,… — Cecil Beaton
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To know oneself, one should assert oneself. — Albert Camus
Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness. — Albert Camus
To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil… — Albert Camus
Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves. — Emile M. Cioran
If we are going to solve the challenges we face, you need a President who will pursue genuine solutions day… — Barack Obama
I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has… — George Washington
I assert once again as a truth to which history as a whole bears witness that men may second their… — Niccolo Machiavelli
With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans… — Neil deGrasse Tyson

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