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• Whatever I have up till now accepted as most true and assured I have gotten either from the senses or through the senses. But from time to time I have found that the senses deceive, and it is prudent never to trust completely those who have deceived us even once.

  Rene Descartes

  Deceived Us, Prudent, Deceiving

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• A man who has no assured and ever present belief in the existence of a personal God or of a future existence with retribution and reward, can have for his rule of life, as far as I can see, only to follow those impulses and instincts which are the strongest or which seem to him the best ones

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Rewards, Belief

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.434, Broadview Press

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• If the Obama administration responds with an even harsher hand against me, they can be assured that they'll soon find themselves facing an equally harsh public response.

  Edward Snowden

  Hands, Administration, Harsh

  "Today's Live Q&A With NSA Leaker, Edward Snowden". The Guardian's live question and answer session, www.commondreams.org. June 17, 2013.

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• Then the necessary decline of non-voluntary learning and rise of the self-assured will which perfects itself in the glorious sunlight of the free person may be somewhat expressed as follows: knowledge must die and rise again as will and create itself anew each day as a free person.

  Max Stirner

  Self, Each Day, May

  Max Stirner (1967). “The False Principle of Our Education: Or, Humanism and Realism”, Ralph Myles Pub

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• I still do not know what impels anyone sound of mind to leave dry land and spend a lifetime describing people who do not exist. If it is child's play, an extension of make believe - something one is frequently assured by people who write about writing - how to account for the overriding wish to do that, just that, only that, and consider it as rational an occupation as riding a bicycle over the Alps?

  Mavis Gallant

  Children, Believe, Writing

  Mavis Gallant (2011). “Paris Stories”, p.366, New York Review of Books

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• After we had conducted thousands of experiments on a certain project without solving the problem, one of my associates, after we had conducted the crowning experiment and it had proved a failure, expressed discouragement and disgust over our having failed to find out anything. I cheerily assured him that we had learned something. For we had learned for a certainty that the thing couldnt be done that way, and that we would have to try some other way.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Trying, Done, Way

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• You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need

  E. F. Schumacher

  Book, Reading, Order

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• I chose the shadows; they did not choose me. I stay here securely not just because I feel plain, but because disappearance is by now the easy way. The habit. The worn path that I can trod knowingly and be assured safe passage home.

  Rod McKuen

  Home, Solitude, Shadow

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• Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.

  Harper Lee

  Book, Long, Alive

  "Harper Lee says claim that new memoir has her blessing is 'a falsehood'" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2014.

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• If you value the world simply for what you can get out of it, be assured that the world will in turn estimate your value to it by what it can get out of you...If you pursue truth, people will be true to you.

  Arthur Twining Hadley

  Inspirational, People, World

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• As we mature personally, as our families mature, and as our churches mature, we need the doctrine of sin more, not less; and we need to keep growing in rightly understanding and applying this doctrine. Be assured that this is no less true if you're a pastor or teacher or ministry worker. There's no pastoral privilege in relation to sin. There's no ministry exemption from the opposition of the flesh. There's only a heightened responsibility to oppose sin and to weaken the flesh, as an example to the flock.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Teacher, Responsibility, Understanding

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• The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Self, Knowing, Needs

  Sakyong Mipham (2005). “Ruling Your World: Ancient Strategies For Modern Life”, p.84, Harmony

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• As a woman, you should be more at ease with your sexuality when you are in your 40s...You are more self-assured about that part. And that's the way it should be.

  Salma Hayek

  Self, Ease, Way

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• Ask God to give you the strength to endure, and rest assured, He will take care of you.

  Joel Osteen

  Strength, God, Faith

  Joel Osteen (2008). “Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

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• This is a glorious biography ... The time is ripe for a new biography of Edith Wharton of this intimacy and on this scale ... Lee the biographer pursues her subject down every winding corridor, into every hidden passage and dark corner ... Her critical exploration of Edith Whartons work is dazzlingly assured ... A feat of exhaustive research, and finely tuned to Whartons creative achievement at the same time ... [Wharton] could scarcely have failed to be impressed by ... its artistic sympathy, its sonorous depths, and its soaring conception.

  Mark Bostridge

  Dark, Achievement, Creative

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• Faith in the guidance of Spirit gives you the courage to take risks, because you're assured that whatever happens, a Higher Power is on your side and you will survive.

  Colette Baron-Reid

  Your Side, Giving, Risk

  FaceBook post by Colette Baron-Reid from Jan 13, 2017

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• But hereof be assured, that all is not lawful nor just that is statute by civil laws; neither yet is everything sin before God, which ungodly persons allege to be treason.

  John Knox

  Law, Sin, Treason

  "The Breakers of the Yoke: Sketches and Studies of the Men". Book by J. S. MacIntosh, p. 303, August 13, 2011.

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• There are and will be those who think I have gone overboard. Let them rest assured that this assessment is correct, probably beyond their wildest imagination, and that I will continue to do so.

  Mary Daly

  Thinking, Assessment, Imagination

  Mary Daly (1993). “Outercourse: The Be-Dazzling Voyage”, Womens PressLtd

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• It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.

  Joseph Glanvill

  Hype, Judging, May

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• Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards.

  Aeschines

  Law, Tyrants, Democracy

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• My son was staying with me, and we got up to watch it, just before they announced supporting actress, he came up and put his arm around me. I think it was like, 'Either way, mom, I still love you.' But then it was funny because I saw it. I saw my picture, and I heard them announce it, but I had to ask him, 'Did I really see that?' I wasn't sure I was seeing it, but he assured me that yes, I was nominated for the Academy Award. We just sort of cried a little bit.

  June Squibb

  Mom, Love You, Son

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• Your rainbow panorama enters into a dialogue with the existing architecture and reinforces what is assured beforehand, that is to say the view of the city. I have created a space which virtually erases the boundaries between inside and outside – where people become a little uncertain as to whether they have stepped into a work or into a part of the museum. This uncertainty is important to me, as it encourages people to think and sense beyond the limits within which they are accustomed to moving.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Moving, Thinking, Museums

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• Our greatest heart-treasure is a knowledge that there is in creation an individual to whom our existence is necessary - some one who is part of our life as we are part of theirs, some one in whose life we feel assured our death would leave a gap for a day or two.

  Miles Franklin

  Heart, Two, Treasure

  Miles Franklin (2007). “My Brilliant Career”, p.297, Broadview Press

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• In practice [monetary management] is merely a high-sounding euphemism for continuous currency debasement. It consists of constant lying in order to support constant swindling. Instead of automatic currencies based on gold, people are forced to take managed currencies based on guile. Instead of precious metals they hold paper promises whose value falls with every bureaucratic whim. And they are suavely assured that only hopelessly antiquated minds dream of returning to truth and honesty and solvency and gold.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Dream, Honesty, Lying

  "What You Should Know about Inflation".

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• If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must we be?

  Frans de Waal

  Inspirational, Motivational, Eye

  Frans de Waal (2007). “Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes”, p.3, JHU Press

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