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Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted. ↗

— Jonathan Raban

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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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It is also asserted that the election settled the matters of the war and the torture of prisoners. These are dead issues that no longer need be addressed. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

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If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper. ↗

— E. T. Bell

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