#assertion

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

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

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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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All sweeping assertions are erroneous. ↗

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#erroneous #sweeping

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve. ↗

— James Anthony Froude

#doubt #every #further #goes #keeps

The assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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