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Familiar Quotations

Affirming

Decide what you want and write your goals. Then convert your goals into positive, present tense statements called affirmations. Affirm your goals each day until they become part of your subconscious mechanism.–Anonymous

Who dares affirm the absurdity that man can originate for himself a priesthood which God shall honor and respect.–Anonymous

Nature's law affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.–Luther Burbank

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.–Andrea Dworkin

A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds are true, and all he rejects are false.–Benjamin Franklin

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.–Oliver Wendell Holmes

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.–Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.–Norman Vincent Peale

The role of the intelligence --that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.–Simone Weil

• Preface vi
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Affirming 1
• Affirming – "Accepting" 1
• Affirming – "Approve" 3
• Affirming – "Assert" 3
• Use in Literature 4
• Affirming 4
• Affirming – "Absolutely" 18
• Affirming – "America" 19
• Affirming – "Arts" 19
• Affirming – "Assert" 20
• Affirming – "Bear" 22
• Affirming – "Being" 22
• Affirming – "Believe" 23
• Affirming – "Books" 24
• Affirming – "Calling" 25
• Affirming – "Causes" 26
• Affirming – "Christianity" 26
• Affirming – "Condition" 27
• Affirming – "Contradict" 28
• Affirming – "Dares" 28
• Affirming – "Day" 29
• Affirming – "Earth" 29
• Affirming – "Evidence" 30
• Affirming – "Farther" 30
• Affirming – "Formed" 31
• Affirming – "Found" 32
• Affirming – "God" 33
• Affirming – "Greatest" 34
• Affirming – "Hand" 36
• Affirming – "Heard" 37
• Affirming – "Idea" 37
• Affirming – "Knowledge" 38
• Affirming – "Lady" 39
• Affirming – "Life" 39
• Affirming – "Little" 40
• Affirming – "Lost" 40
• Affirming – "Love" 41
• Affirming – "Men" 41
• Affirming – "Manner" 44
• Affirming – "Matter" 45
• Affirming – "Means" 45
• Affirming – "Myself" 46
• Affirming – "Name" 46
• Affirming – "Need" 47
• Affirming – "Nothing" 47
• Affirming – "Old" 48
• Affirming – "Opinion" 49
• Affirming – "Others" 50
• Affirming – "Ourselves" 51
• Affirming – "People" 51
• Affirming – "Perfect" 52
• Affirming – "Person" 53
• Affirming – "Places" 53
• Affirming – "Pleased" 55
• Affirming – "Presented" 56
• Affirming – "Princes" 57
• Affirming – "Question" 57
• Affirming – "Reason" 58
• Affirming – "Shall" 59
• Affirming – "Simply" 59
• Affirming – "Spirits" 60
• Affirming – "States" 61
• Affirming – "Stranger" 61
• Affirming – "Things" 62
• Affirming – "Thought" 63
• Affirming – "Thus" 64
• Affirming – "True" 65
• Affirming – "Truth" 66
• Affirming – "Ventured" 67
• Affirming – "View" 68
• Affirming – "Whatever" 68
• Affirming – "Word" 69
• Affirming – "Young" 69
• Nonfiction Usage 71
• Journalism Usage 71
• Governmental Usage 73
• Patent Usage 74
• Bibliographic Usage 74
• Encyclopedic Usage 89
• Lexicographic Usage 97
• Index 116