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Letter "A" » assertions
«Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.»
«Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.»
«Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
assertion, assertions, derives, deriving, earns, esteem, existence, expression, gains, mere, personal, Personal self, profoundly, response, seeks, selfish, self assertion, self esteem, values
«Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.»
Author: Andrea Dworkin
| Keywords:
assertions, consequence, credible, feminist, implicit, implicit in, intent, radical
«Every man who has declared that some other man is an ass or a scoundrel, gets angry when the other man conclusively shows that the assertion was erroneous.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
assertion, assertions, conclusively, declared, erroneous, scoundrel, some other
«It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
assertion, assertions, Handel, in force, style
«Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Teenage
| Keywords:
assertion, assertions, chuckle, chuckles, dense, denser, egotism, intolerance, nineteen, opaque, pathetic, perception, pitiful, self assertion, unconsciousness
«Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.»
«How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as much to enforce their maxims by the credit of their lives»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Children,
Eyes,
Family,
Parents
| Keywords:
assertions, enforce
«Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.»
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