Universal Quotes

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Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written. — Peter Singer
If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal… — Peter Singer
Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection. — Yakov Smirnoff
In many ways, Scotland will benefit more than other parts of the UK when Universal Credit comes in. A larger percentage of people will see… — Iain Duncan Smith
The storytelling in 'Doctor Who' is quite universal. — Matt Smith
Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois. — Susan Sontag
It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all. — Thomas Sowell
The bones of the story of 'War Horse' is a love story. That's what makes it universal. — Steven Spielberg
It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a… — Baruch Spinoza
Any rule, not existing in the nature of things, or that is not permanent, universal and inflexible in its application, is no law, according to… — Lysander Spooner
Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal. — Gertrude Stein
Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to… — Adlai E. Stevenson
In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare… — Lytton Strachey
If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die, rather it manifests… — Radhanath Swami
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to… — Jonathan Swift
I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't… — Antonio Tabucchi
Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone. — Daniel Tammet
Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion,… — Hunter S. Thompson
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity. — Leo Tolstoy
Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining. — Desmond Tutu

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