Universal Quotes

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Cinema is universal, beyond flags and borders and passports. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
With the advent of computing, human invention crossed a threshold into a world different from everything that came before. The computer is the universal machine… — James Gleick
Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance… — Buddha
My hope is for a literature that raises the language above the ordinary, makes words both functional and emotional, and to resonate at the frequency… — Theresa Breslin
Among many other reforms, Australians pioneered the secret ballot and universal suffrage. — Richard Flanagan
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law. — Immanuel Kant
Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding. — Juan Antonio Samaranch
Olympism is a philosophy which, by blending sport with culture, seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the… — Juan Antonio Samaranch
Food is our common ground, a universal experience. — James Beard
The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic. — Comte de Lautreamont
For us, universal values such as justice, morality and peace cannot be disputed and it is for this reason that we pursue the restoration of… — Robert Kocharian
I have always held those political opinions which point to the universal brotherhood of man, no matter in what rank of life he may have… — Alexander Mackenzie
The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful, and the ennobling in man, and for one, I wish to see it… — Julius Sterling Morton
Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege. — John Edward Christopher Hill
I believe that true art is universal in its appeal. — John McCormack
The question is, what are we to do in order to consolidate peace on a universal and durable foundation, and what are the essential elements… — Arthur Henderson
The task of a priest, in some respects, may be different today, but the principles upon which Herbert built his life as a priest are… — Arthur Middleton
Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree. — Thomas Dekker
That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that… — Kenneth L. Pike

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