#assert

Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

#common #common good #good #individual #individual liberty

The distinction between the old and the new formulations consisting in the incorporation of the concept of the rate of chemical reactions is so great that it immediately asserted itself in the objective development of catalysis. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#between #catalysis #chemical #chemical reactions #concept

Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it's too assertive to the naked eye. ↗

— Gordon Ramsay

#assertive #cooking #eye #look #may

We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#bully #coward #oppression #timidity #life

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#begets #confidence #does #frequently #ignorance

Second, the resolution contains the blatantly false assertion that negotiating a timeline for bringing U.S. troops home with the Iraqi government undermines U.S. national security. Such a statement shows a misunderstanding of the enemy we face in Iraq. ↗

— Peter DeFazio

#blatantly #bringing #contains #enemy #face

Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong, and that His righteousness endures for all generations? ↗

— Tony Campolo

#asserted #concept #endures #freud #generations

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today. ↗

— Albert Camus

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That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact. ↗

— Walter Pater

#artifice #assertion #fact #him #life

At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men. ↗

— Orson Pratt

#asserted #authority #children #during #endeavoured