1.
Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.
T. S. Eliot
2.
Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.
William Strunk, Jr.
3.
This is how proofiness works. The assertion is more important than the evidence itself.
David Corn
8.
What we (U.S.) have done, is undertaken diplomacy through public assertions that tend to alienate everyone.
John Prendergast
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Nowhere nor in anything, except in the assertion of the Church, can we find that God or Christ founded anything like what churchmen understand by the Church.
Leo Tolstoy