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«Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.»
«Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.»
Author: Walter Kaufmann
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assent, assented, assenting, confident, intense, reasonable, reasonable person
«And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so.»
«ACCOMPLICE, n. One associated with another in a crime, having guilty knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing him guilty. This view of the attorney's position in the matter has not hitherto commanded the assent of attorneys, no one having offered them a fee for assenting.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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assenting, attorney, attorneys, commanded, complicity, fee, hitherto
«ABDOMEN, n. The temple of the god Stomach, in whose worship, with sacrificial rights, all true men engage. From women this ancient faith commands but a stammering assent. They sometimes minister at the altar in a half-hearted and ineffective way, but true reverence for the one deity that men really adore they know not. If woman had a free hand in the world's marketing the race would become graminivorous.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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abdomen, adore, altar, Ancient World, assented, assenting, commands, deity, engage, Free market, hearted, ineffective, marketing, minister, sacrificial, stammer, stammering, Temple of, The temple
«Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, / And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; / Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, / Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.»
«That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
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Men
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assent, assented, assenting, proposition, sane
«And the messenger that went to call Micaiah spake to him, saying, Behold, the words of the prophets declare good to the king with one assent; let thy word therefore, I pray thee, be like one of their's, and speak thou good.»
«Assent -- and you are sane -- , demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- , and handled with a Chain -- .»
«Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.»
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