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Definition of Affirmation

Affirmation

  1. Confirmation of anything established; ratification; as, the affirmation of a law.
  2. The act of affirming or asserting as true; assertion; -- opposed to negation or denial.
  3. That which is asserted; an assertion; a positive statement; an averment; as, an affirmation, by the vender, of title to property sold, or of its quality.
  4. A solemn declaration made under the penalties of perjury, by persons who conscientiously decline taking an oath, which declaration is in law equivalent to an oath.

Affirmation Quotations

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.
Jim Rohn

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Niels Bohr

You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'
Florence Scovel Shinn

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
Simone Weil
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