His most famous assertion being:

Modesitt paraphrases Arthur C. Clarke's famous assertion that 'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.'

This belief is summarized in his famous assertion that "the essence of mathematics is its freedom."

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

Freud and Philosophy contains the famous assertion that Marx, Nietzsche and Freud are masters of the School of suspicion.

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."

Football is in theory a very simple game, as illustrated by Kevin Keegan's famous assertion that his tactics for winning a match were to "score more goals than the opposition".

And when President George Bush's famous assertion to voters - "Read my lips: No new taxes" - was violated, he too was consigned to history.

Another essayist, Mordecai Richler, makes fun of Will Rogers's famous assertion that he never met a man he didn't like, and cries "Bravo!"

Does Mr. Peck agree with the famous assertion of Charles de Gaulle that old age is "a shipwreck"?