We may as well assert that because a child has thriven upon milk, that it is never to have meat, or that the first twenty years of our lives is to become a precedent for the next twenty.
In his essay "The Poet as Translator", Kenneth Rexroth asserts that the translation of poetry into poetry is an act of sympathy and the prime criterion of successful translation is assimilability.
He asserted, also, that his power to follow a long and purely abstract train of thought was very limited, for which reason he felt certain that he never could have succeeded with mathematics.
It has led to what is in effect a form of " absolutism" , one which believes that if you simply assert your view loud enough and long enough, you will get your way in the end.
The Somali government has asserted that it has won the military battle against Al Shabaab militants, enabling African Union forces to begin a gradual withdrawal from the country over the new two years.
And Eleanor Roosevelt has really a wonderful quote I think relate to this piece of advice which she asserts: Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.