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• Now let me say that the next thing we must be concerned about if we are to have peace on earth and good will toward men is the nonviolent affirmation of the sacredness of all human life. Every man is somebody because he is a child of God.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Children, Men, Inspire

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• An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we can know there is a God; the atheist, that we can know there is not. The Agnostic suspends judgment, saying that there are not sufficient grounds either for affirmation or for denial. At the same time, an Agnostic may hold that the existence of God, though not impossible, is very improbable; he may even hold it so improbable that it is not worth considering in practice. In that case, he is not far removed from atheism.

  Bertrand Russell

  Christian, Atheist, Practice

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.557, Routledge

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• In the history of mankind there are recorded two great Inversions. The first, set forth by the Nazarene to the effect that love is a greater power and more real than vengeance. The second proclaimed the earth to be a sphere revolving in its course around the sun. These affirmations were made in the face of all evidence sacred to the contrary.

  Louis Sullivan

  Real, Love Is, Two

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• I've always looked for my affirmation through my peers, the people I race against, and within my team.

  Jimmie Johnson

  Team, Race, People

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• The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or denial), in anger of tone and timbre. When the anger led to action there was no turgidity or over-emphasis. Anyone who has witnessed political rows among the Whites will have to admit that the Whites aren't overburdened with poetic imagination.

  Jean Genet

  Imagination, Political, Denial

  Jean Genet (2003). “Prisoner of Love”, New York Review of Books

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• It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't go into acting for that because it's really your own self-belief that's going to get you through.

  Miranda Otto

  Self, Careers, People

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• Because I have confidence in the power of truth and in the spirit, I believe in the future of mankind. Affirmation of the world and of life contains within itself an optimistic willing and hoping which can never be lost. It is, therefore, never afraid to face the dismal reality and to see it as it really is.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Believe, Optimistic, Reality

  Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

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• Most of us make unconscious choices in the words that we use; we sleep-walk through the maze of possibilities available to us.

  Tony Robbins

  Sleep, Choices, Mazes

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

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• You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough

  Wendell Berry

  Rivers, Environmental, Plant

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• Affirmations are like screaming that you're okay in order to overcome this whisper that you're not. That's a big contrast to actually uncovering the whisper, realizing that it's a passing memory, and moving closer to all those fears and all those edgy feelings that maybe you're not okay. Well, no big deal. None of us is okay and all of us are fine. It's not just one way. We are walking, talking paradoxes.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspirational, Memories, Moving

  "Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living". Book by Pema Chodron, 1994.

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• Man can change his conditions by changing his words.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Men, Conditions

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2009). “The Game of Life and How to Play It”, p.14, Penguin

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• 'If only' is the excuse of the loser; 'I can' is the affirmation of the winner.

  William Arthur Ward

  Loser, Winner, Excuse

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• Conscious auto-suggestion, made with confidence, faith, and perseverance realizes itself automatically, in all matters within reason.

  Emile Coue

  Perseverance, Suggestions, Matter

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• Rebirth is an affirmation that must be counted among the primordial affirmations of mankind. The concept of rebirth necessarily implies the continuity of personality. Here the human personality is regarded as continuous and accessible to memory, so that, when one is incarnated or born, one is able, potentially, to remember that one has lived through previous existences, and that these existences were one's own, ie, they had the same ego form as the present life. As a rule, reincarnation means rebirth in a human body.

  Carl Jung

  Memories, Mean, Personality

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• A baby nursing at a mother's breast... is an undeniable affirmation of our rootedness in nature.

  David Suzuki

  Mother, Baby, Nursing

  David Suzuki (1995). “Time to Change”, Stoddart Pub

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• If the tradition which claims that war may be justified does not also admit that it could be unjustified, the affirmation is not morally serious. A Christian who prepares the case for a justified war without being equally prepared for hte negative case has not soberly weighted the prima facie presumption that any violence is wrong until the case for an exception has been made.

  John Howard

  Christian, War, Negative

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• I am not a positivist. Positivism states that what cannot be observed does not exist. This conception is scientifically indefensible, for it is impossible to make valid affirmations of what people 'can' or 'cannot' observe. One would have to say 'only what we observe exists,' which is obviously false.

  Albert Einstein

  People, Doe, Impossible

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.395, Princeton University Press

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• All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it

  Charles Fillmore

  Thinking, Order, Causes

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• Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it failed to do so – otherwise, one would also have to throw out a good deal of the greatest painting and poetry of the nineteenth century. An objective political failure can still work as a model of intellectual affirmation or dissent.

  Robert Hughes

  Political, Intellectual, World

  Robert Hughes (2013). “The Shock of the New”, Knopf

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• I say no to doubt and yes to life!

  Wayne Dyer

  Doubt, Positive Affirmations

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• Each pursues his private interest and only his private interest; and thereby serves the private interests of all, the general interest, without willing it or knowing it. The real point is not that each individual's pursuit of his private interest promotes the totality of private interests, the general interest. One could just as well deduce from this abstract phrase that each individual reciprocally blocks the assertion of the others' interests, so that, instead of a general affirmation, this war of all against all produces a general negation.

  Karl Marx

  Block, Real, War

  "Grundrisse". Book by Karl Marx, Notebook I, The Chapter on Money, p. 76, 1857-1858.

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• I wish more of us could understand that our increasing isolation, no matter how much it seems to express pride and self-affirmation, is not the answer to our problems. Rather, the answer is a revival of our ancient commitment to God, who rules over all the peoples of the world and exalts no one over any other, and to the moral and spiritual values which were once legendary in America. We must reach out our hand in friendship both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

  Arthur Ashe

  Spiritual, Commitment, Pride

  "Days of Grace: A Memoir". Book by Arnold Rampersad and Arthur Ashe, p. 186, 1993.

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• All that we do outwardly is but the expression and completion of our inward thought. To work effectively, we must think clearly; to act nobly, we must think nobly.

  William Ellery Channing

  Positive Thinking, Expression, Inward

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• Every action and feeling is preceded by a thought.

  James Allen

  Positive Thinking, Feelings, Action

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• Some of the young photographers today enter photography where I leave off. My "grandchildren" astound me. What I worked for they seem to be born with. So I wonder where Their affirmations of Spirit will lead. My wish for them is that their unfolding proceeds to fullness of Spirit, however astonishing or anguished their lives.

  Minor White

  Photography, Grandchildren, Wish

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