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The more necessary anything appears to my mind, the most certain it is that I only assert a limitation. — Aleister Crowley

Blasphemy and prayer are one. Both assert the existence of a superior power. The first, however, with conviction. — David Mamet

Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants. — Margaret Atwood

Consequently they who assert that all is well have said a foolish thing, they should have said all is for the best. — Voltaire

The need to compile lists is a personality disorder, as is the need to assert the superiority of some things over other things. — Jeremy Hardy

Awake,arise,and assert yourself,you dreamers of the world. Your star is now in ascendancy. — Napoleon Hill

The aim of scientific work is truth. While we internally recognise something as true, we judge, and while we utter judgements, we assert. — Gottlob Frege

The elect sneer at popularity; they are inclined even to assert that it is a proof of mediocrity; — W. Somerset Maugham

You just don't invade another country on phony pretext in order to assert your interests! — John F. Kerry

Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing. — Jean Cocteau

Razo was sorely tempted to assert that all was true and he'd lost his horns and tail in a tragic childhood accident — Shannon Hale

He does not dare (by continuing his operations) to assert and complete his mastery. — Lao-Tzu

It's OK to assert yourself. Obviously, as a woman, I do experience the consequence of asserting yourself - you're not supposed to assert yourself. — Sinead O'Connor

I assert that, in any particular natural science, one encounters genuine scientific substance only to the extent that mathematics is present. — Immanuel Kant

If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

To assert dignity is to lose it. — Rex Stout

You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself. — Dennis Potter

When you see a person acting violently, ask yourself whether he knows how powerful he is. If he knew his power, would he feel the need to assert it? — Vironika Tugaleva

The essential business of language is to assert or deny facts. Given — Ludwig Wittgenstein

What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights. — Tom G. Palmer

For I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration. — Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151) — Malcolm Gladwell

Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known? — Galileo Galilei

We are not entitled to assume or assert that other people should change to make it easier for us to avoid changing ourselves. — Elaina Marie

time to assert one's right is when it's denied!" "I'm sorry, — Sue Monk Kidd

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness. — Albert Camus

How rash to assert that man shapes his own destiny. All he can do is determine his inner responses. — Etty Hillesum

One only "right" we have to assert in common with mankind
and that is as much in our hands as theirs
is the right of having something to do. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

To gaze into another persons face is to do two things: to recognise their humanity and to assert your own. — Lawrence Hill

I believe Saddam Hussein's strategic objective was, and remains, to assert dominance over the Gulf region. — Sandy Berger

To assert as truth that which has no meaning is the core mission of humanity. — Tom King

Evil's when you push your agenda over someone else's. When you assert your beliefs over somebody's contrary beliefs. That's evil. — David Kitson

History can tell us what happened in the past. But it cannot assert that it must happen again in the future. — Ludwig Von Mises

The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them. — John Charles Polanyi

Our politicians don't say anything anymore: they just refute and assert. — Beeban Kidron

There is a powerful desire by majorities to assert a religious identity for the country. — Jack Balkin

The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form. — Gustav Mahler

What we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert as part of oneself. — Nicolas Chamfort

The safest rule of conduct is to claim kinship when we want to do service and not to insist on kinship when we want to assert a right. — Mahatma Gandhi

We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves. — Emil Cioran

The mind can only gather, accumulate, deny, assert, remember, pursue. Peace is absolutely essential, because without peace we cannot live creatively. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

They hammered it with sometimes-guns, that violently assert the manchmal, this stuff, our everyday, against the always of the immer. — China Mieville

To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. — Robert Bellarmine

It is not possible to assert publicly that Monsanto is anything other than venal without being accused of being a sellout, a fraud, or worse. — Michael Specter

Americans assert their own opinions as if they were facts and dismiss inconvenient facts as mere opinions. — Kevin Hearne

It's dangerous to assert oneself. — Jeanne Moreau

Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault. — David D. Burns

What I have in my power, that is my own. So long as I assert myself as holder, I am the proprietor of the thing. — Max Stirner

It is shameful that dancing should renounce the empire it might assert over the mind and only endeavor to please the sight. — Jean-Georges Noverre

Her presence had awakened in him a man suddenly whipped by his earlier ideals, whose lost manhood wanted to assert itself in action. — Anais Nin

It is desirable to avoid trivial and evil company altogether - unless one can assert oneself fully, and thus make the other doubt his own position. — Erich Fromm

Remind yourself that all men assert that wisdom is the greatest good, but that there are few who strenuously seek out that greatest good. — Pythagoras

Baby doll, I could assert my manly dominance, thump my chest, and declare you're mine. But it wouldn't mean a damn thing if I'm not yours in return. — Kristen Callihan

I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition. — Henri Matisse

The time to assert one's right is when it's denied! — Sue Monk Kidd

Truth exists. The sole purpose of this proposition is to assert the existence of truth against imbeciles and sceptics. — Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert Of Cherbury

Nuclear weapons elimination will make all states and their people safer. It is time to assert our right to live in a nuclear weapons free world. — Jonathan Granoff

Weigh not so much what men assert, as what they prove. Truth is simple and naked, and needs not invention to apparel her comeliness. — Philip Sidney

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles. — Charles Horton Cooley

I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research. — Albert Einstein

I assert with confidence that the law of success, here and hereafter, is to have a humble and a prayerful heart, and to work, work, work. — Heber J. Grant

This is why rational people - anti-religionists - must end their timidity and come out of their closet and assert themselves. — Bill Maher

I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context. — John Dewey

The uniqueness of every soul is not a theme that our current culture, obsessed with group identities, cares to assert. — Dean Koontz

We need to assert our allegiance to the human race, and not to any one nation. — Howard Zinn

Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it. — Richard Wagner

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt. — John Heywood

Managers assert drive and control to get things done; leaders pause to discover new ways of being and achieving . — Kevin Cashman

Hasting - There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself. — Agatha Christie

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded. — Abraham Lincoln

Our history shows that what we must do is assert domination over the machine, to guide it so that it works for the values of our choice. — Charles A. Reich

Marriage, historically, has been one of the best ways for men to assert, reproduce, and pass on their power, to retain their control. — Rebecca Traister

Technology challenges us to assert our human values, which means that first of all, we have to figure out what they are. — Sherry Turkle

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all. — G.K. Chesterton

You can't assert an answer just because it's not something else. — Isaac Asimov

Really, weren't these facts just placeholders until the long view could really assert itself? — David Levithan

We can no longer assert any single proposition, unless we guard ourselves by enumerating countless conditions which must be assumed. — Aleister Crowley

Adam's role was to assert and enjoy his sovereignty under God, cultivating the garden into an expanding paradise and protecting it from all harm. — Raymond C. Ortlund Jr.

Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man. — Aristotle.

Don't be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities and don't let the bastards get you down. — Michael Bloomberg

I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Rudeness is a means to attract attention, assert power, cover-up ineptitude, deflect personal insecurities, and intimidate meeker people. — Kilroy J. Oldster

What would any man do with a soggy girl who can't assert herself, who has a weak voice, and whose main personality component is helplessness? — Steve Martin

I must assert in the most unqualified way that it is primarily and mainly for the sake of saving the soul that I seek the salvation of the body. — William Booth

Always, a form of self-equilibration, a soul or psyche, is trying to assert itself, to continue the melody of its self-realized life. — Kenny Smith

Faith cannot tell us who is right and who is wrong, because each will simply assert that his or her faith is the true one. — Peter Singer

To those readers who feel that I didn't know any better, I assert that I did ... but the temptation was simply too great to resist. — Stephen King

I assert our inalienable right to party', which drew cheers from all present. — J.K. Rowling

I should never have allowed the gates of the town to be opened to people who assert that there are higher considerations than those of decency. — J.M. Coetzee

What we assert, very often can become our reality. To some degree, everybody can try to shape and control their fate. Everybody picks an identity. — David O. Russell

Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties. — Mahatma Gandhi

Hopeless cases: Executives who assert themselves by saying No when they should say Yes. — Malcolm Forbes

To share your spiritual self or grounding with anyone brings about a reality that must assert itself. — Roger A. Kaufman

Beware of people who constantly assert their integrity and honor. People of character don't have to point it out. — Michael Josephson

It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. — Abraham Lincoln

To know oneself, one should assert oneself. — Albert Camus

For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering — Albert Camus

If you try to assert wisdom before people have themselves walked it, be prepared for much resistance, denial, push-back, and verbal debate. — Richard Rohr

The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life. — Swami Vivekananda

It is painful to face the self we know we have never had the integrity to honor and assert. — Nathaniel Branden