Sentence examples for famous assertion from inspiring English sources

William James liked to quote Søren Kierkegaard's famous assertion that "we live forward, but we understand backwards".

It was a play on Mr. Davutoglu's famous assertion that Turkey would strive to have "zero problems" with its neighbors.

Ms Nelson would probably also have a few choice words to say about the supermodel's famous assertion "Nothing tastes as skinny feels".

Mark Perry's famous assertion that "punk died the day The Clash signed to CBS" didn't even allow the genre a toddler-hood.

He spoke out for civil rights and against McCarthyism, and publicly challenged his colleague Jacques Barzun's famous assertion that the liberal arts were "dead or dying".

Sandy Alderson's famous assertion in "Moneyball" that field managers are mere "middle managers" was widely influential; it was also, Alderson told me recently, misinterpreted.

With reference to these now famous assertions this article traces the promises and pit-falls of democracy from ancient Greece to neo-liberal economies, to ascertain if the democratic state is indeed the ideal mechanism for promoting public health.

At first glance, Mitt Romney's now-famous assertion that all those who don't pay federal income taxes are dependent moochers seems like a dumb mistake.

Despite his famous later assertion that surrendering was something the British would never do, it did his own career no harm.

McNealy was famous for his assertion that "the network is the computer," which epitomized Sun's approach to networking interoperability.

The Conservative and Liberal philosophers such as Hobbes and Locke are famous for making assertions about human nature, that people exist in either a "state of grace" or a brutish "state of nature," and connecting their political philosophy to these beliefs.