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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.

~Charles Caleb Colton

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We must look to an open, tolerant, inclusive England, which embraces the values of a Britain that still leads the world in terms of an open democracy, as well as an understanding of the needs for responsibilities and obligations to run alongside the affirmation of individual rights.

~David Blunkett

Topics: Affirmation Alongside Britain Democracy Embraces England Inclusive Individual Individual Rights Leads Look Must Needs Obligations Open Responsibilities Rights Run Still Terms Tolerant Understanding Values Well Which World

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That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.

~David Hume

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Christianity and Judaism are united above all in their common affirmation and implementation of the moral teaching of the Hebrew Bible, or 'Old Testament,' and the traditions of interpretation of that teaching.

~David Novak

Topics: Above Affirmation Bible Christianity Common Hebrew Implementation Interpretation Judaism Moral Old Old Testament Teaching Testament Traditions United

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For me, books were my source of affirmation. Alice Walker, Audrey Lord - it was these authors who wrote about their experiences. It was this weird thing where I was censored in terms of what I could watch but not in terms of what I could read.

~Dee Rees

Topics: About Affirmation Alice Audrey Authors Books Censored Could Experiences Lord Me Read Source Terms Thing Walker Watch Weird Weird Thing Were Where Who Wrote

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When Landon Carter, a Virginia plantation owner, read the Declaration of Independence two days after it was issued, he wondered whether its ringing affirmation of equality meant that slaves must be freed. If so, he confided to his diary, 'You must send them out of the country, or they must steal for their support.'

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: Affirmation After Carter Country Days Declaration Diary Equality Freed He His Independence Meant Must Out Owner Plantation Read Ringing Send Slaves Steal Support Them Two Virginia Whether Wondered You

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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.

~Ellen Key

Topics: Affirmation Century Emancipation Greatest History Intense Most Movement Nineteenth Nineteenth Century Practically Right Seen Self Women

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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.'

~Florence Scovel Shinn

Topics: Affirmation Clicks Conviction Done Failure Impress Making Subconscious Success Until Which Will You

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