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Assertion Quotes

Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.

Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.

T. S. Eliot
Real, Poetry Is, Assertion

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

William Strunk, Jr.
Language, Colorless, Assertion
William Strunk Jr. (2015). “Elements of Style”, p.20, Lulu.com

This is how proofiness works. The assertion is more important than the evidence itself.

David Corn
Important, Evidence, Assertion

We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?

Charles Dickens
Silence, Assertion

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

George D. Prentice
Truth, Naked, Assertion

All sweeping assertions are erroneous.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Sweeping, Assertion
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.136

Complexity assertions have to be part of the interface

Alexander Stepanov
Complexity, Interfaces, Assertion
"C Programming". Interview with Al Stevens, collaboration.cmc.ec.gc.ca. 1995.

This life is a tremendous assertion of freedom

Swami Vivekananda
Life Is, This Life, Assertion
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2250, Manonmani Publishers

Nowhere nor in anything, except in the assertion of the Church, can we find that God or Christ founded anything like what churchmen understand by the Church.

Leo Tolstoy
Church, Christ, Assertion
Leo Tolstoy (2009). “The Kingdom of God Is Within You: Easyread Edition”, p.68, ReadHowYouWant.com

What we (U.S.) have done, is undertaken diplomacy through public assertions that tend to alienate everyone.

John Prendergast
Done, Diplomacy, Assertion

Style is effectiveness of assertion.

George Bernard Shaw
Effectiveness, Style, Assertion

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