The faraway flash was "so small a body that he could not affirm it to be land," Columbus wrote, referring to himself in the third person.
"Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun," I went on, weakly, "though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom".
However, for Schlegel, this did not make comedy dependent on tragedy; on the contrary, he affirms it to be "a species of poetry as independent and original as tragedy itself" (LDA, 108).
This "bodhi-mind"—the profound aspiration for enlightenment for oneself and all beings—had been taught to be the crucial starting point for the Mahayana bodhisattva, and other Japanese Pure Land masters such as Genshin had affirmed it to be the core of genuine desire for the Pure Land.
In Nietzsche's moral philosophy, the sole ethical command is the doctrine of eternal return: If you would affirm something, you should affirm it to eternity.
In Nietzsche's moral philosophy, the sole ethical command is the doctrine of eternal return: if you would affirm something, you should affirm it to eternity; you should want it to repeat itself, without any variation, over and again for an infinity of consecutively identical universes.
A close friend of mine in the Senate affirmed it to me the other day when he said that when he meets with workers who are not organized, they react with much more reserve than the union workers he meets -- even when the two groups have so much else about their lives in common.
By affirming "it's OK to be an atheist" and encouraging video testimony from those who have already made the journey out into the open, "We Are Atheism" hopes to help others do the same.
Take your power back by affirming It's important to me to feel good.
Therefore, the opposite of Justice Roberts's argument is true: far from overthrowing the system, DNA testing would affirm it, whereas to refuse to examine pertinent DNA evidence would amount to a miscarriage of justice.
