Universal Quotes

• You can’t propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Space, Propose

  "Frequently asked questions". www.w3.org. 1998.

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• If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Risk being unliked. Tell the truth as you understand it. If you’re a writer you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act—truth is always subversive.

  Anne Lamott

  Real, Writing, Emotional

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• There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [259]

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• Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Powerful, Soul, Alchemist

  "The Alchemist". Book by Paulo Coelho, 1988.

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• In these days of political, personal and economic disintegration, music is not a luxury, it's a necessity; not simply because it is therapeutic, nor because it is the universal language, but because it is the persistent focus of our intelligence, aspiration and goodwill.

  Robert Lawson Shaw

  Music, Luxury, Focus

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• God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.

  Giordano Bruno

  Spiritual, Substance, Fountain

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• As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an apothecary wouldn't let it go for less than half-a-crown.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Everyday, Let It Go, Pennies

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook B 33, 1799.

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• Our ultimate weapon is not our guns but our beliefs ... Ours are not Western values. They are the universal values of the human spirit and anywhere, any time, ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same. Freedom not tyranny. Democracy not dictatorship. The rule of law not the rule of the secret police. The spread of freedom is the best security for the free. It is our last line of defence and our first line of attack.

  Tony Blair

  Gun, Law, Western Values

  Address to Congress Accepting Congressional Gold Medal, delivered 17 July 2003, Joint Session of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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• The 'almighty dollar' is the true divinity, and its worship is universal.

  Isabella Bird

  Money, Dollars, Divinity

  Isabella L. Bird (2012). “A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains”, p.127, Courier Corporation

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• As an artist you're looking for universal triggers. You want it both ways. You want it to have an immediate impact, and you want it to have deep meanings as well. I'm striving for both. But I hate it when people write things that sound like they've swallowed a f... dictionary.

  Damien Hirst

  Hate, Writing, Artist

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• I feel that faith and feminism have a deep relationship to each other and that both are responses to the deep human yearning for connection and for peace on earth, and that they both have a vision of universal human equity.

  Helen LaKelly Hunt

  God, Vision, Feminism

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• Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Pain, Men, Long

  Charles Baudelaire, Jonathan Mayne (1981). “Art in Paris 1845-1862: salons and other exhibitions”

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• Republican values - strong families, faith, personal responsibility and freedom, among others - are not unique to specific subsets of the electorate. They are universal values, and it is Republicans' job to remind Americans of that fact.

  Gary Bauer

  Strong, Jobs, Responsibility

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• There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Hate, Hatred, Soul

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.273

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• Man is ever searching for the source whence he has come, searching for the life which is upwelling within him, immortal, nay, eternal and divine; and every religion is the answer from the Universal Spirit to the seeking spirits of men that came forth from Him.

  Annie Besant

  Men, Answers, Spirit

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• If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  God, Atheist, Religion

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• All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

  Samuel Butler

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 1

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• On the one hand we have got to ask, are there some areas of universal benefits that are no longer affordable? But on the other hand let us look at the issue of dependency where we have trapped people in poverty through the extent of welfare that they have.

  David Cameron

  Hands, Issues, People

  "David Cameron claims welfare reform will save in the long run" by Paul Owen, www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2010.

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• I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Mother, Believe, Literature

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.119, Wordsworth Editions

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• Love is the internal, affectively apprehended, aspect of the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the expression and the agent of universal synthesis.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Love, Together, Facts

  "Activation of Energy: Enlightening Reflections on Spiritual Energy". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1976.

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• None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.

  Lydia M. Child

  Jesus, Bravery, Political

  "Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 34, 1843.

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• Be universal in your love. You will see the universe to be the picture of your own being.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Love You, Sri Lanka, Universal Love

  Sri Chinmoy (1972). “Eternity's breath: aphorisms and essays”

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• It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar.

  Noam Chomsky

  Animal, Language, Theory

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• And for me anyway, consciousness is three components: a personal component which for lack of a better word we can call the soul. A collective component which is more archetypal and a deeper level, and then a universal domain of consciousness.

  Deepak Chopra

  Soul, Three, Levels

  "You Are Not Your Brain: Interview With Alva Noe, Ph.D". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 28, 2010.

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• Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.

  Joan Collins

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

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