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• To affirm that men and women are persons and as persons should be free, and yet to do nothing tangible to make this affirmation a reality, is a farce.

  Paulo Freire

  Reality, Men, Farce

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.35, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• A Course In Miracles is a constant affirmation that you are created by an unconditional thought of love that appears to have lost itself in a world of fear. Freedom, joy and peace of mind are yours again, when you remember and re-connect to your unconditional self.

  Robert Holden

  Peace, Self, Joy

  Robert Holden (2011). “Happiness Now!: Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good Fast”, p.22, Hay House, Inc

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• The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion: that education must start from birth.

  Maria Montessori

  Education, Greatness, Personality

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• A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to the power of Creation behind the Universe.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Dream, Play, Symphony

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.89, Open Road Media

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• Words are the most powerful thing in the universe... Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind.

  Charles Capps

  Faith, Powerful, Fear

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• We don't realize how much we create reality through language. If we say that life is hard, it will be hard.

  Fernando Flores

  Reality, Life Is Hard, Language

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• I am a moment illuminating eternity....I am affirmation...I am ecstasy.

  Alexander Scriabin

  Moments, Eternity, Ecstasy

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• Saying someone is religious is heard in most of America as a compliment, a reassuring affirmation that someone will be moral, ethical, and after a few glasses of wine, a freak in the bedroom.

  Bill Maher

  Religious, Wine, Glasses

  Bill Maher (2003). “When You Ride Alone You Ride with Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism”, New Millenium

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• Unlike a lot of people, I don't need the affirmation or anything.

  Bob Seger

  People, Needs

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• If we affirm one moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves nor in things; and if our soul has trembled with happiness and sounded like a harp string just once, all eternity was needed to produce this one event - and in this single moment of affirmation all eternity was called good, redeemed, justified, and affirmed.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Self, Soul, Events

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• There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you. There is a bone-deep security that goes with the brush of a human hand, a silent, reflex-level affirmation that someone is near, that someone cares.

  Jim Butcher

  Hands, Touching You, Knowing

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1584, Penguin

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• What is the purpose of writing music? One is, of course, not dealing with purposes but dealing with sounds. Or the answer must take the form of a paradox: a purposeful purposeless or a purposeless play. This play, however, is an affirmation of life--not an attempt to bring order out of chaos nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply a way of waking up to the very life we’re living, which is so excellent once one gets one’s mind and one’s desires out of its way and lets it act of its own accord.

  John Cage

  Writing, Order, Play

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• In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience of that life, an essential defiance. This affirmation lies in the way the author takes control of reality by retelling it in his own way, thus creating a new world. Every great work of art, I would declare pompously, is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life. The perfection and beauty of form rebels against the ugliness and shabbiness of the subject matter.

  Azar Nafisi

  Art, Betrayal, Lying

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• I can worship Nature, and that fulfills my need for miracles and beauty. Art gives a spiritual depth to existence -- I can find worlds bigger and deeper than my own in music, paintings, and books. And from my friends and family I receive the highest benediction, emotional contact, and personal affirmation. I can bow before the works of Man, from buildings to babies, and that fulfills my need for wonder. I can believe in the sanctity of Life, and that becomes the Revealed Word, to live my life as I believe it should be, not as I'm told to by self-appointed guides.

  Neil Peart

  Spiritual, Baby, Art

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• But our trip was different. It was a classic affirmation of everything right and true and decent in the national character. It was a gross, physical salute to the fantastic possibilities of life in this country-but only for those with true grit. And we were chock full of that.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Country, Character, Fear And Loathing

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.535, Simon and Schuster

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• I emphasize in it [my Orientalism] accortdingly that neither the term Orient nor the concept of the West has any ontological stability; each is made up of human effort, partly affirmation, partly identification of the Other.

  Edward Said

  Effort, Orientalism, West

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• We can make, to ourselves, very much stronger suggestions than anyone else can, whoever that person may be.

  Emile Coue

  Stronger, Suggestions, May

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• Through his spoken word, man is continually making laws for himself.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Men, Law, Spoken Word

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2016). “The Complete Collection (with the book "The Power of the Spoken Word")”, p.19, Florence Scovel Shinn

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• My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Writing, Men, Sake

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• I talk to myself because I like dealing with a better class of people.

  Savielly Tartakower

  Class, People, My Attitude

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• An affirmation states that a goal is already happening. I'm not crazy about this because, often when we affirm something that is not yet real, the little voice in our head usually responds with This isn't true, this is BS...On the other hand, a declaration is not saying something is true, it's saying we have an intention of doing or being something. This is a position the little voice can buy, because we're not stating it's true right now, but again, it's an intention for us ion the future.

  T. Harv Eker

  Crazy, Real, Hands

  T. Harv Eker (2009). “Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• Islam united all heresies persecuted in Byzantine Empire and synthesised them well into a conseffion that later became a symbol of Arab self-affirmation.

  Lev Gumilev

  Self, Islam, Byzantine

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• Owing to the vibratory power of words, whatever man voices, he begins to attract.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Positive, Men, Law Of Attraction

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2016). “The Complete Collection (with the book "The Power of the Spoken Word")”, p.21, Florence Scovel Shinn

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• While it is never safe to affirm that the future of Physical Science has no marvels in store even more astonishing than those of the past, it seems probable that most of the grand underlying principles have been firmly established and that further advances are to be sought chiefly in the rigorous application of these principles to all the phenomena which come under our notice.

  Robert S. Mulliken

  Future, Science, Past

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• I'm convinced that we can write and live our own scripts more than most people will acknowledge. I also know the price that must be paid. It's a real struggle to do it. It requires visualization and affirmation. It involves living a life of integrity, starting with making and keeping promises, until the whole human personality the senses, the thinking, the feeling, and the intuition are ultimately integrated and harmonized.

  Stephen Covey

  Integrity, Real, Struggle

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