Universal Quotes

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The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sciences provide an understanding of a universal experience, Arts are a universal understanding of a personal experience... they are both a part of us and… — Mae Jemison
To watch THE WAITING ROOM is to wish it would never end. This is human drama at its most intense and universal. The rare film… — Mick LaSalle
The benefits of science are not only material ones. The truths that science teaches are of common interest the world over. The language of science… — Arthur Compton
There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our… — James D. Watson
Of our political revolution of '76, we all are justly proud. It has given us a degree of political freedom, far exceeding that of any… — Abraham Lincoln
A community in which this universal charity reigns, is capable of surmounting all difficulties. — Catherine McAuley
Everyone says Francois Mitterrand had huge charisma. But before he was president they used to call him badly dressed, old, archaic and say he knew… — Francois Hollande
We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government; that is, the universal… — Benjamin Rush
The idea of some kind of objectively constant, universal literary value is seductive. It feels real. It feels like a stone cold fact that In… — Lev Grossman
I've interviewed multiple people who know bin Laden... who tend to have a universal picture of what he's like, which is: modest, retiring, unassuming, kind… — Peter Bergen
People's love of sweets and guilty feelings about overindulgence are pretty universal. — Will Cotton
I have not lost any of my crazy, fearless, raw, soulful, eclectic side and I plan on continuing to tell universal stories in an unforgettable… — Janelle Monae
It's a universal story, it's an immigrant story, and it's a love story. In the United States, if you believe in yourself and you're determined… — Gloria Estefan
This Law -- whether Conscious or Unconscious --predestines nothing and no one. It exists from and in Eternity, truly, for it is ETERNITY itself; and… — H. P. Blavatsky
Turkey is not a part of Europe and will never be part of Europe ... The universal values which are in force in Europe, and… — Herman Van Rompuy
So-called austerity, the stoic injunction, is the path towards universal destruction. It is the old, the fatal, competitive path. Pull in your belt is a… — Wyndham Lewis
The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school… — Karl Lehmann
Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in… — George Bernard Shaw
The universal line of distinction between the strong and the weak is that one persists; the other hesitates, falters, trifles, and at last collapses or… — Edwin Percy Whipple

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