#assert

The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

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By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone else's life. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

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We asserted ourselves as a music community, and showed legislators that music is positive. Especially if you've sold 300 million records worldwide and pay taxes. ↗

— Krist Novoselic

#community #especially #legislators #million #music

Never argue; repeat your assertion. ↗

— Robert Owen

#assertion #never #repeat #your

Assertiveness is not what you do, it's who you are! ↗

— Shakti Gawain

#who #you

It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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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

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The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive. ↗

— V. S. Pritchett

#assertive #canadian #cautious #critical #observant

Divinity for the sake of the simple-minded is beautiful. Those theological assertions you write, say, or live by that you later feel foolish about, it means God still lives in you enough to tell you that they were indeed foolish. By mistakes you know you are alive. ↗

— Criss Jami

#assertions #beautiful #correction #divinity #foolish