#assertion

Never argue; repeat your assertion. ↗

— Robert Owen

#assertion #never #repeat #your

The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#convey #culture #made #mind #our

All sweeping assertions are erroneous. ↗

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#erroneous #sweeping

Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion. ↗

— Maimonides

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When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating. ↗

— Henry Flynt

#false #obvious #problem #says #self-defeating

As for the assertion that nuclear weapons prevent wars, how many more wars are needed to refute this arguments? Tens of millions have died in the many wars that have taken place since 1945. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#died #how #many #millions #more

Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language. ↗

— William Strunk, Jr.

#avoid #colorless #definite #hesitating #language

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

The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings. ↗

— Millicent Fawcett

#assertion #chief #coming #does #failed

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#assertions #being #contradicted #extremes #fear