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Letter "A" » affirming
«It is not necessary to deny another's reality in order to affirm your own.»
«Never ever discount the idea of marriage. Sure, someone might tell you that marriage is just a piece of paper. Well, so is money, and what's more life-affirming than cold, hard cash?»
Author: Dennis Miller
(Actor, Comedian)
| Keywords:
affirming, cash, discount, discounting, hard cash, paper money, piece of paper
«As long as you know what it is you desire, then by simply affirming that it is yours -- firmly and positively, with no ifs, buts, or maybes -- over and over again, from the minute you arise in the morning until the time you go to sleep at night, and as many times during the day as your work or activities permit, you will be drawn to those people, places, and events that will bring your desires to you.»
Author: Scott Reed
| Keywords:
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«On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
(Judge, Jurist)
| Keywords:
Affirmed, affirming, affirms, deny, on the side, on the whole, saints, The Saints, unregenerate
«The more I read, the more I meditate; and the more I acquire, the more I am enabled to affirm that I know nothing»
«PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. This doctrine should not be confused with that of foreordination, which means that all things are programmed, but does not affirm their occurrence, that being only an implication from other doctrines by which this is entailed. The difference is great enough to have deluged Christendom with ink, to say nothing of the gore. With the distinction of the two doctrines kept well in mind, and a reverent belief in both, one may hope to escape perdition if spared.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«ACCUSE, v.t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
accuse, accuses, accusing, affirm, Affirmed, affirming, commonly, guilt, justification, T, The Accused, wronged
«Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his life with reverence in order to raise it to its true value. To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the wil»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
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«It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.»
«Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
affirm, affirming, idealist, persist, persist in, predestined
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