Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other.
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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
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The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is not merely academic. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered.
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(What is a dead girl but a shadowy ghost Or a dead man's voice but a distant and vain affirmation Like dream words most)
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simple affirmation of Roe v. Wade, a decision which has had a long-lasting, profound impact in improving women's health and lives.
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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.
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The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.
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Humore is an affirmation of man's dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
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Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
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An affirmation is a strong, positive statement that somthing is already so.
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We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
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