#affirm

I can always look up at the cosmos and marvel, no matter what happens. And when I look up at it, I feel as though my problems are small. I don't know why, but it always makes me feel better. ↗

— Matthew Quick

#life-affirming #life

I was critical of race-based affirmative action early on in my career and I've changed my mind. And I've publicly acknowledged that I was wrong. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#action #affirmative #affirmative action #career #changed

Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#affirmative #affirmative action #black #black community #certainly

The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature. ↗

— Paul de Man

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In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality. ↗

— Plato

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I answer in the affirmative with an emphatic "No." ↗

— Boyle Roche

#answer #emphatic #i

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion. ↗

— Jim Rohn

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Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing affirmation of life. ↗

— Alex Noble

#being #life #mind #outgoing #process

You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which "clicks." ↗

— Florence Scovel Shinn

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