Universal Quotes

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A life without fighting is a dead sea in the universal organism. — Machado de Assis
Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right. — Rutherford B. Hayes
Never forget that every living thing has a particular and needed job to do in the universal Plan and Purpose. — J. Boone
I believe in God as I believe in my friends, because I feel the breath of His affections, feel His invisible hand, drawing me, leading… — Miguel de Unamuno
One who has self-esteem esteems oneself because one knows the value of one's being as a singular yet universal expression of the highest value in… — Yasuhiko Kimura
The state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular interests. For this… — Karl Marx
Sex is the Universal Language in which nobody speaks; they don't have to. — George Burns
Away with all ideals. Let each individual act spontaneously from the forever incalculable prompting of the creative wellhead within him. There is no universal law. — D. H. Lawrence
I esteem his understanding and subtlety highly, but I consider that they have been put to ill use in the greater part of his work,… — Christiaan Huygens
When thoughts are reduced, power of the mind and its subtlety increases, tunes with the Universe. Then you can see the realms beyond the common… — Mata Amritanandamayi
Man is merely a frequent effect, a monstrosity is a rare one, but both are equally natural, equally inevitable, equally part of the universal and… — John Dewey
Finally, in regard to those who possess the largest shares in the stock of worldly goods, could there, in your opinion, be any police so… — Horace Mann
Sex is hard to write about because you lose the universal and succumb to the particular. We all have our different favorites. Good sex is… — Martin Amis
I worked on 'USA Today' as a topic for while. I tried to do something on hand chairs, chairs that look like hands. I really… — Jim Gaffigan
The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, help, and conversation is to… — John Steinbeck
Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite… — Bertrand Russell
I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile… — Edward Tufte
It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them. — Kenneth Lee Pike
Romanists tell us that the Pope is the vicar of Christ; that he is his successor as the universal head and ruler of the Church… — Charles Hodge
In a society of little economic development, universal inactivity accompanies universal poverty. You survive not by struggling against nature, or by increasing production, or by… — Ryszard Kapuscinski

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