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• There is always money to kill people. There is never enough money for life affirming ends.

  Derrick Jensen

  People, Enough, Ends

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• The essence of sin is a shift from God centeredness to a self-centeredness. The essence of salvation is a denial of self, not an affirming of self.

  Henry Blackaby

  Self, Essence, Centeredness

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• Often girls feel deeply cared about as small children but then find as we develop willpower and independent thought that the world stops affirming us, that we are seen as unlovable.

  Bell Hooks

  Girl, Children, Independent

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• To create something beautiful about despair or out of a feeling of despair is for me the most hopeful life affirming thing a person can do

  Sarah Kane

  Beautiful, Hopeful, Feelings

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• God is not in a hurry to fix us. Our behavior is not his first priority. We are his first priority. Loving us, knowing us, affirming us, protecting us. That is his top goal and his main concern.

  Judah Smith

  Knowing, Goal, Priorities

  Judah Smith (2013). “Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human”, p.117, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I cleanse the windows of my mind, that it may become a mirror reflecting inspiration from the most High. I do this, not with strenuous effort, but through quiet contemplation, through gently reaching and affirming an inward recognition. I know exactly what to do in every situation. There is an inspiration within me which governs every act, every thought, with certainty, with conviction and in peace.

  Ernest Holmes

  Inspiration, Mirrors, Effort

  Ernest Holmes (2007). “This Thing Called You”, p.114, Penguin

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• The Declaration of Independence...is not a legal prescription conferring powers upon the courts; and the Constitution's refusal to 'deny or disparage' other rights is far removed from affirming any one of them, and even farther removed from authorizing judges to identify what they might be, and to enforce the judges' list against laws duly enacted by the people.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Rights, Government, Law

  "The Grandparent Dissent" by George F. Will, www.washingtonpost.com. June 7, 2000.

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• If, on the other hand, we wish to describe a particular phenomenon without repressing our direct experience, then we cannot avoid speaking of the phenomenon as an active, animate entity with which we find ourselves engaged. To the sensing body, no thing presents itself as utterly passive or inert. Only by affirming the animateness of perceived things do we allow our words to emerge directly from the depths of our ongoing reciprocity with the world.

  David Abram

  Hands, Experience, Wish

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• I love my life, my family and my friends, and I'm drawn to 'relationship' novels because of their affirming focus on the power of love to heal wounds and transform lives.

  Susan Wiggs

  Love Of My Life, Focus, I Love My Life

  Interview with Suzanne Fox, www.publishersweekly.com. January 28, 2002.

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• Recognition of the modes of existence of technical objects must be the result of philosophic consideration; what philosophy has to achieve in this respect is analogous to what the abolition of slavery achieved in affirming the worth of the individual human being.

  Gilbert Simondon

  Philosophy, Abolition Of Slavery, Recognition

  "On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects". Book by Gilbert Simondon, University of Western Ontario, June 1980.

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• Where a generation ago people felt entitled to a chance at education, they now feel entitled to the credential affirming that they have completed a course of study regardless of their actual mastery.

  William A. Henry III

  People, Mastery, Generations

  William A. Henry, III (2015). “In Defense of Elitism”, p.48, Anchor

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• The fact that you have a policy of such consequence directly affecting millions of people and you have a legal question of great consequence about the scope of the president's authority to act in implementing the immigration laws in this way and you have a one-line decision from the court affirming by an equally-divided court, it's an inevitable consequence of where we are.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Law, People, Decision

  "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

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• I especially appreciated hearing the President [Barack Obama] affirm that "black lives matter" and that it means that some citizens are feeling more pain, and experiencing more negative effects than others, and he offered up the stats. He also indicated that black lives matter does not negate the fact that blue lives matter. He ably walked the tightrope, here, between affirming both black life and police life.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Pain, Mean, Blue

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• I think the film [Dream of Life] is life-affirming.

  Patti Smith

  Dream, Thinking, Life Is

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• The film [Dream of Life], in the end, is life-affirming, and I think it's always useful for people to be reminded that no matter how rough things get, no matter what kind of twists and turns our lives can take, we can keep going, we can create something new.

  Patti Smith

  Dream, Thinking, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A more appropriate expansion is the statement "it is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies" a transcript of a talk to a writers conference in Australia in 1996, where I had been asked to talk on "writers and intellectual responsibility" - a question that I said I found "puzzling," because I knew of nothing to say about it beyond truisms, though these were perhaps worth affirming because they are "so commonly denied, if not in words, then in consistent practice."

  Noam Chomsky

  Lying, Responsibility, Practice

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• In the gay world, some of the most enriching and incredibly life-affirming and shaping relationships, very often between younger boys and older men, can be hugely positive experiences for those young boys. They can save those young boys from desolation, suicide and drug addiction, all sorts of things, providing they're consensual.

  Milo Yiannopoulos

  Suicide, Gay, Boys

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• I think a lot of the people who feel out of step with contemporary society or feel that they've been left back economically or feel disaffected and are drawn to the Republican Party, they are looking for a news source that will tell them something they would like to hear and then is reassuring, emotionally rewarding, and confirming. And affirming to them. So to deliver that product is pretty valuable. It's kind of like they're an insurgency and they're not getting what they need to hear from the mainstream.

  Sheldon Whitehouse

  Party, Thinking, People

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• It was quite life-affirming, for me, that I felt hat kind of pity for [Margaret Thatcher], because I didn't think I ever would.

  Irvine Welsh

  Thinking, Hats, Kind

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I didn't sit down and write a song like, "I want to write a song about this," but I just spent so much time living in this affectively charged space of the live show, with its risks and the incredible reward that comes from people knowing me, recognizing me, affirming me. And then I would wake up in the morning and have an eight-hour drive where I would read George Saunders and listen to Grouper and Pure X. And you bond so much with your tour-mates and your bandmates because it's this weird, quite desperate way of living.

  How to Dress Well

  Song, Morning, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I may have to shop with them. But on Sunday I don't want to have to worship with them. I want to be able to just be myself and let my hair down." It's also, of course, as we know, the seat of political organization and the affirming of your blackness and so on.

  Michael Emerson

  Sunday, Hair, Organization

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My son, who sees me almost every day of his life, will look at me and go, "I know that dude! I like that dude!" It's incredibly affirming.

  John Darnielle

  Son, Looks, Look At Me

  "The Mountain Goats". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. October 1, 2012.

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• Alan Alda and his wife Arlene are two of the most life-affirming people I've ever met. He espoused equal rights for women while producing, writing, acting in and directing M*A*S*H; he used to commute between the set and home because he didn't want to disrupt his kids' schooling.

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  Home, Writing, Kids

  "Portrait of the artist: Sanjeev Bhaskar, actor and comedian". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2010.

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• In marriage for example, you say 'Yes' on the day you get married, 'I do', but each day you implicitly if not explicitly, also say 'Yes', by every act that one performs in a marriage, one is saying 'Yes', making a cup of coffee for one's wife or husband is a form of saying 'Yes' to the marriage vow that one is continuing the marriage by affirming it in one's deeds. And exactly the same in the religious life.

  Kevin Hart

  Religious, Husband, Coffee

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• A healthy society is life-affirming. Homosexuality is the metaphysical negation of life. Incapable of reproduction (giving life), it can replenish its numbers only by seduction.

  Don Feder

  Numbers, Giving, Healthy

  Don Feder (1993). “A Jewish conservative looks at pagan America”, Vital Issues Pr

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