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Letter "A" » assented
«Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.»
«Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.»
Author: Walter Kaufmann
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«The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
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«And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so.»
«ABDOMEN, n. The temple of the god Stomach, in whose worship, with sacrificial rights, all true men engage. From women this ancient faith commands but a stammering assent. They sometimes minister at the altar in a half-hearted and ineffective way, but true reverence for the one deity that men really adore they know not. If woman had a free hand in the world's marketing the race would become graminivorous.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, / And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; / Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, / Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.»
«That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
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«And the messenger that went to call Micaiah spake to him, saying, Behold, the words of the prophets declare good to the king with one assent; let thy word therefore, I pray thee, be like one of their's, and speak thou good.»
«Assent -- and you are sane -- , demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- , and handled with a Chain -- .»
«Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.»
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