#affirm

By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

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The special counsel has not advised Mr. Rove that he is a target of the investigation and affirmed that he has made no decision concerning charges. ↗

— Robert Luskin

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The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

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There is no affirmation without the one who affirms. in this sense, everything to which you grant your love is yours ↗

— Ayn Rand

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Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish people, following the decisive lead given by John Paul II. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question. ↗

— Niels Bohr

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White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Choosing one's leaders is an affirmation that the person making the choice has inherent worth. ↗

— Linda Chavez

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For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to the extent that the grace of the Lord permits to inquiry into and investigation of the consensus of the true and purer antiquity. ↗

— Martin Chemnitz

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Very curious, at the age of about 13 years, Oswald began to study Marxism and he kept on in his writing, affirming that he was a Marxist. Probably he did want to show himself as a great, supreme Marxist. ↗

— John Sherman Cooper

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