Orhan Pamuk

Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.

Novelist

Simon Mainwaring

The most impactful way consumers can assert their power is to become mindful shoppers, giving their dollars only to socially responsible companies. In today's world of social media and smart phones, this is easy to do.

Businessman

Hermann Hesse

There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

German Novelist

Scott Turow

The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots.

American Novelist

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

English Writer

Kathryn Schulz

We're terrified of not having the answers, and we would sometimes rather assert an incorrect answer than make our peace with the fact that we really don't know.

American Journalist

Howard Gardner

Truth is about propositions. When it comes to determining truth, it is vital to understand the methods used by individuals in asserting propositions.

American Psychologist

John Howard

We want to assert the very principle that truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.

Australian Statesman

Albert Camus

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

French Philosopher

Sasha Velour

Drag is about asserting your power and your brilliance and your importance.

American Entertainer

Use 'assert' when you are sure about your facts and you want others to believe you.

Stating Facts

Use 'assert' to show that you have no doubts about your statement.

Conviction Strength

'Assert' is strong and used when expressing personal views that you're passionate about.

Personal Views

'Assert' is often used when someone makes their rights known, especially when others might not be aware.

Claiming Rights

When you 'assert' your position, you display confidence, which affects how others perceive you.

Displaying Confidence

Use 'assert' to describe moments when someone stands up for themselves.

Personal Empowerment

In programming, use 'assert' for checking if what you expect in your code is true.

In Code Verification

Assert statements in code help identify where things go wrong by halting execution.

Highlighting Errors

 As the scene unfolds, your brain's hemispheres process a flurry of the waiter's flailing arms, his cry for help, the smell of pasta. Within milliseconds, this information zips through pathways and is processed into a single moment. Most of the time, everything is recorded in-sync. However, this theory asserts

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 We start to assert it. And when we do that, really good things happen. So, if you want to help your community, if you want to help your family, if you want to help your friends, you have to express yourself. And to express yourself, you have to know yourself. It's actually super easy.

Give yourself permission...

 if it motivates enough people to change their thinking and actions. And so the sixth source of power is numbers, lots of humans. A vocal mass of people creates power by expressing collective intensity of interest and by asserting legitimacy.

How to understand power...

 can reject them based on what I call Hitchens dictum after my friend Christopher Hitchens who said that which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence you have to have reasons for your moral beliefs

How science & reason...

 So it's kind of just to assert their dominance, to show their size. And I guess like, it's a way of scaring someone away. Why do rhinos have thick skin? So rhinos have about five centimetre thick skin, so it's super thick?

Do Rhinos Eat People? PIPE...

 the quest to cultivate our capacity for love and compassion has to assert itself, has to assert itself, just as equally. So I believe the future "you" is an infinite you.

Thoughts on humanity,...

 Through considering the uncertainties in all that we had asserted, to the inviolable truths, incontestable truths, I developed a more nuanced understanding.

Inside the mind of a...

 mainstream media has characterized how we see south asians whether by romanticizing its biggest country india or asserting the model minority

After Decades of...

 their chance there has never been a more important moment for david to assert his power he makes the first move

Chaos Erupts in...

 There's never been a more important moment for David to assert his power. He makes the first move.