Word: affirming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Common Law. Biddle suggests "there was but one end, life itself; and life was the getting of all there was out of it, physically, mentally, and in that deeper loneliness of the spirit." "On the whole," Holmes himself wrote, "I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself as against the saints who deny...
...night of his 70th birthday he picked up his pen: "One learns from time an amiable latitude with regard to beliefs and tastes. Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. . . . Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal. . . . There rises a mystic spiritual tone that gives meaning to the whole...
...British Partnership. "We affirm our loyalty to the King and our faith in the British partnership. We accept the responsibilities together with the benefits of this partnership...
Whether or not these assertions were true, Gandhi could not publicly affirm or deny: he was locked up in a luxurious jail, the Aga Khan's million-rupee "bungalow" at Poona. But the British threatened use of the whip on rioters, execution of anyone sabotaging trains or communications...
This that I affirm is not the wishful thinking of a moralist. It is an everyday fact. It is a commonplace truth. . . . I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never...