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Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault. -- David D. Burns
To know oneself, one should assert oneself. -- Albert Camus
I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause. -- Jonathan Edwards
I think the U.S. should assert its leadership in a more effective way. -- Sebastian Pinera
What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights. -- Tom G. Palmer
We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless. -- Mark Rothko
Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness. -- Albert Camus
Technology challenges us to assert our human values, which means that first of all, we have to figure out what they are. -- Sherry Turkle
The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed. -- Thomas Jefferson
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. -- Cecil Beaton
No man can stand still; the moment progress is not made, retrogression begins. If the blade is not kept sharp and bright, the law of rust will assert its claim. -- Orison Swett Marden
Arizona's law makes what is already a federal offense - being in the country illegally - a state offense. Some critics seem not to understand Arizona's right to assert concurrent jurisdiction. -- George Will
Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I was in high school, and when you get to be 14, 15, you start to feel a little more like your own person so that you can assert your adulthood a little bit. -- Damien Chazelle
To assert that it is possible to establish peace between men of different nations is simply to assert that man, whatever his ethnical background, his race, religious beliefs, or philosophy, is capable of reason. -- Leon Bourgeois
There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself. -- Hermann Hesse
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
The most impactful way consumers can assert their power is to become mindful shoppers, giving their dollars only to socially responsible companies. In today's world of social media and smart phones, this is easy to do. -- Simon Mainwaring
A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view. -- Alfred Adler
To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction. -- Randa Abdel-Fattah
Democracy is a revelation, but it's complicated. There are elections to hold, politics to create, rights to assert, grievances to settle and institutions to build. To many, it's exhilarating. For others, it can be disappointing when it turns out that democracy doesn't immediately make life better. -- Atifete Jahjaga
We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression. -- T. E. Lawrence
I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second. -- Christopher Hitchens
The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord. -- Jon Meacham
So the history of discovery, particularly cosmic discovery, but discovery in general, scientific discovery, is one where at any given moment, there's a frontier. And there tends to be an urge for people, especially religious people, to assert that across that boundary, into the unknown, lies the handiwork of God. This shows up a lot. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc. We must not be weighed down by an insistence on a one size fits all approach which implies that all countries want the same level of integration. The fact is that they don't and we shouldn't assert that they do. -- David Cameron
It's dangerous to assert oneself. -- Jeanne Moreau
To assert dignity is to lose it. -- Rex Stout
ASSERT -Always Stand Strong, Evoking Respect Tacitly -- Kamil Ali
Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God. -- Charles Bradlaugh
The time to assert one's right is when it's denied! -- Sue Monk Kidd
You can't assert an answer just because it's not something else. -- Isaac Asimov
Our politicians don't say anything anymore: they just refute and assert. -- Beeban Kidron
The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form. -- Gustav Mahler
You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself. -- Dennis Potter
Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known? -- Galileo Galilei
Hasting - There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself. -- Agatha Christie
Sometimes people who adamantly assert an opinion or view don't even hold it themselves. -- David J. Lieberman. Ph.D.
Hopeless cases: Executives who assert themselves by saying No when they should say Yes. -- Malcolm Forbes
Sometimes people who adamantly assert an opinion or view don't even hold it themselves. -- David J. Lieberman. Ph.D.
We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves. -- Emile M. Cioran
We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves. -- Emile M. Cioran
There is a powerful desire by majorities to assert a religious identity for the country. -- Jack Balkin
You just don't invade another country on phony pretext in order to assert your interests! -- John F. Kerry
I believe Saddam Hussein's strategic objective was, and remains, to assert dominance over the Gulf region. -- Sandy Berger
It's time we did something to assert ourselves. After all, we do comprise 10% of the population. -- Allen Ginsberg
Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties. -- Mahatma Gandhi
...We need to assert our allegiance to the human race, and not to any one nation. -- Howard Zinn
Awake,arise,and assert yourself,you dreamers of the world. Your star is now in ascendancy. -- Napoleon Hill
To share your spiritual self or grounding with anyone brings about a reality that must assert itself. -- Roger A. Kaufman
For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering -- Albert Camus
Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing. -- Jean Cocteau
Blasphemy and prayer are one. Both assert the existence of a superior power. The first, however, with conviction. -- David Mamet
All sects seem to me to be right in what they assert, and wrong in what they deny. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research. -- Albert Einstein
It is painful to face the self we know we have never had the integrity to honor and assert. -- Nathaniel Branden
Truth exists. The sole purpose of this proposition is to assert the existence of truth against imbeciles and sceptics. -- Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
Managers assert drive and control to get things done; leaders pause to discover new ways of being and achieving . -- Kevin Cashman
I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context. -- John Dewey
How rash to assert that man shapes his own destiny. All he can do is determine his inner responses. -- Etty Hillesum
In some ways it is absurd for me to assert, counter to evidence, that I have not been writing. -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Don't be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities and don't let the bastards get you down. -- Michael Bloomberg
Beware of people who constantly assert their integrity and honor. People of character don't have to point it out. -- Michael Josephson
The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them, when they are invaded. -- Abraham Lincoln
The more necessary anything appears to my mind, the most certain it is that I only assert a limitation. -- Aleister Crowley
It's amazing how dumb people can impress you with how much stupider they can be when they really assert themselves. -- Dane Cook
To gaze into another persons face is to do two things: to recognise their humanity and to assert your own. -- Lawrence Hill
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt. -- John Heywood
We can no longer assert any single proposition, unless we guard ourselves by enumerating countless conditions which must be assumed. -- Aleister Crowley
If appearances are deceitful, then they do not deserve any confidence when they assert what appears to them to be true. -- Diogenes Laertius
Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it. -- Richard Wagner
I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration. -- Gottfried Leibniz
I assert that, in any particular natural science, one encounters genuine scientific substance only to the extent that mathematics is present. -- Immanuel Kant
This is why rational people - anti-religionists - must end their timidity and come out of their closet and assert themselves. -- Bill Maher
It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. -- Abraham Lincoln
I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
History can tell us what happened in the past. But it cannot assert that it must happen again in the future. -- Ludwig von Mises
I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition. -- Henri Matisse
...If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151) -- Malcolm Gladwell
We want to assert the very principle that truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life. -- John Howard
It is shameful that dancing should renounce the empire it might assert over the mind and only endeavor to please the sight. -- Jean-Georges Noverre
Always, a form of self-equilibration, a soul or psyche, is trying to assert itself, to continue the melody of its self-realized life. -- Kenny Smith
If you try to assert wisdom before people have themselves walked it, be prepared for much resistance, denial, push-back, and verbal debate. -- Richard Rohr
Razo was sorely tempted to assert that all was true and he'd lost his horns and tail in a tragic childhood accident -- Shannon Hale
The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life. -- Swami Vivekananda
To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin". -- Robert Bellarmine
If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man. -- Aristotle
The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles. -- Charles Horton Cooley
The aim of scientific work is truth. While we internally recognise something as true, we judge, and while we utter judgements, we assert. -- Gottlob Frege
The need to compile lists is a personality disorder, as is the need to assert the superiority of some things over other things. -- Jeremy Hardy
The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them. -- John Charles Polanyi
The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not. -- Louise J. Kaplan
Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert oneself. -- Albert Camus
Remind yourself that all men assert that wisdom is the greatest good, but that there are few who strenuously seek out that greatest good. -- Pythagoras
What we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert as part of oneself. -- Nicolas Chamfort
Our culture is ill-equipped to assert the bourgeois values which would be the salvation of the under-class, because we have lost those values ourselves. -- Norman Podhoretz
If anyone assert the fabulous pre-existence of souls and shall submit to the monstrous doctrine that follows from it, let him be anathema [excommunicated] -- Justinian I
Weigh not so much what men assert, as what they prove. Truth is simple and naked, and needs not invention to apparel her comeliness. -- Philip Sidney
Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself. -- Josiah Strong
When you accidentally assert power over someone or something, one of two things will happen: 1) you will be respected; or 2) you will be hated -- Katie Renee Ward
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
What we assert, very often can become our reality. To some degree, everybody can try to shape and control their fate. Everybody picks an identity. -- David O. Russell
To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence. -- Adam Clarke
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is not possible to assert publicly that Monsanto is anything other than venal without being accused of being a sellout, a fraud, or worse. -- Michael Specter
What I have in my power, that is my own. So long as I assert myself as holder, I am the proprietor of the thing. -- Max Stirner
Objectivity is the subject subjugating the object. That is how you assert yourself. You make yourself the active voice and the object is the passive no-voice. -- Emily Levine
Anaximander used to assert that the primary cause of all things was the Infinite,-not defining exactly whether he meant air or water or anything else. -- Diogenes Laertius
Nuclear weapons elimination will make all states and their people safer. It is time to assert our right to live in a nuclear weapons free world. -- Jonathan Granoff
It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. -- T. S. Eliot
I assert with confidence that the law of success, here and hereafter, is to have a humble and a prayerful heart, and to work, work, work. -- Heber J. Grant
Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen... -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
Our history shows that what we must do is assert domination over the machine, to guide it so that it works for the values of our choice. -- Charles A. Reich
Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right. -- Charles Dickens
One only "right" we have to assert in common with mankind--and that is as much in our hands as theirs--is the right of having something to do. -- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants. -- Margaret Atwood
They assert that their program is purely peaceful. . . . We want them to demonstrate clearly in the actions they propose that they have truly abandoned any nuclear weapons ambition. -- Barack Obama
We're terrified of not having the answers, and we would sometimes rather assert an incorrect answer than make our peace with the fact that we really don't know. -- Kathryn Schulz

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