#assertion

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Second, the resolution contains the blatantly false assertion that negotiating a timeline for bringing U.S. troops home with the Iraqi government undermines U.S. national security. Such a statement shows a misunderstanding of the enemy we face in Iraq.


Peter DeFazio


#blatantly #bringing #contains #enemy #face

The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.


Millicent Fawcett


#assertion #chief #coming #does #failed

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.


Winston Churchill


#assertions #being #contradicted #extremes #fear

Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.


John Bates Clark


#answer #assertions #commission #contradictions #experience

Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves.


Nicolaus Copernicus


#center #centuries #conception #consensus #earth

Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.


Andrea Dworkin


#assertions #authentic #consequence #credible #defined

I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hungarian generals there is such a considerable percentage of men of German origin, who of course had, in most cases, to alter their names if they wanted to get anywhere.


Heinrich Himmler


#am #among #anywhere #assertions #cases

Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.


William Feather


#back #cannot #done #ninety-nine #nothing

I do not espouse the unitarian position. President Clinton's assertion of directive authority over administration, more than President Reagan's assertion of a general supervisory authority, raises serious constitutional questions.


Elena Kagan


#assertion #authority #clinton #constitutional #directive

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.


Jiddu Krishnamurti


#belief #constant #fear #indication