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- Nov 07, 2020
Asserting Quotes
To assert something is to refuse to stay silent about it.
This collection of asserting quotes looks at what it means to put a belief forward and stand behind it, from a logical diagram recorded for the future to a merchant weighing whose moral code prevails. Pair it with our Free quotes.
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- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always showed myself in the face of day, asserting the liberty and independence of my country, while some others, like owls, courted concealment and were too much afraid of losing their roosts to leave them for such a cause.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
To kick off a merchant is to censor ideas and interfere with the free exchange of products at the core of commerce. When we kick off a merchant, we're asserting our own moral code as the superior one. But who gets to define that moral code?
- Credit
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots.
- Creating
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- Nov 07, 2020
Strategic autonomy is not secured by merely asserting one's independence: it is secured by creating mutually beneficial interdependencies.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started performing, I played acoustic music, partly because that way you don't have to worry about interacting too much with other people creatively. Asserting myself in that way was not really a strong point for me.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
To call the American role in the world imperial was, for many who did so, a way of asserting that the United States was misusing its power beyond its borders and, in so doing, subverting its founding political principles within them.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
We Americans unite faith and freedom in asserting that our liberties are your gift, God, not that of government.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fashion for my mother was about asserting and demonstrating you had aesthetics, tastes, sensibility, manners, beauty - qualities that black people were always trying to prove they possessed, because it was often assumed that we didn't.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
In rating ease of description as very important, we are essentially asserting a belief in quantitative knowledge - a belief that most of the key questions in our world sooner or later demand answers to 'by how much?' rather than merely to 'in which direction?'
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the most painful things in the Western States and Territories is the extinction of childhood. I have never seen any children - only debased imitations of men and women, cankered by greed and selfishness, and asserting and gaining complete independence of their parents at ten years old.
- Determining
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- Nov 07, 2020
Truth is about propositions. When it comes to determining truth, it is vital to understand the methods used by individuals in asserting propositions.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who study primate societies make a distinction between two kinds of cultural interactions, agonic and hedonic. In agonic societies, you gain status by asserting dominance over others. In hedonic societies, you gain status by drawing attention to yourself. Open source is a hedonic culture.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are men, and propose to live like men in this free land, without the contamination of slave labor, or die like men, if need be, in asserting the rights of our race, our country, and our families.
- Argument
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- Nov 07, 2020