Universally Quotes
219 quotes by 201 authors
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
— Jane Austen
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The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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The subtle generational cues that make one thing cool and another uncool aren't always obvious to a parent. My children are my dinner-table sounding board.…
— Nolan Bushnell
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The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral dominated a 13th century landscape.…
— A. Hunter Dupree
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The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic…
— Fritjof Capra
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Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.
— George Santayana
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Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their…
— Walter Savage Landor
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The natural environment sustains the life of all beings universally.
— Dalai Lama
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No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts of…
— Herbert Spencer
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The country is now universally recognised as a nation on the move and takes its place amongst the successful economies in the region. The future…
— Ratan Tata
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It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a…
— Samuel Johnson
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All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied.
— Samuel Johnson
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Theoretical physicists accept the need for mathematical beauty as an act of faith... For example, the main reason why the theory of relativity is so…
— Paul Dirac
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Those qualities of bodies that cannot be intended and remitted [i.e., qualities that cannot be increased and diminished] and that belong to all bodies on…
— Isaac Newton
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Whether moral and social phenomena are really exceptions to the general certainty and uniformity of the course of nature; and how far the methods, by…
— John Stuart Mill
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The magnitude of this evil among us is so deeply felt, and so universally acknowledged, that no merit could be greater than that of devising…
— James Madison
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The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented . . . no insincerity…
— John Quincy Adams
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Physical science enjoys the distinction of being the most fundamental of the experimental sciences, and its laws are obeyed universally, so far as is known,…
— Frederick Soddy
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We cannot ensure that women will be free of discrimination in the workplace and everywhere as long as women are not universally defended under our…
— Carolyn Maloney
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Since it is impossible for the people spontaneously and universally, to move in concert towards their object; and it is therefore essential, that such changes…
— James Madison
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