Universal Quotes - Page 5

• I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style - and that's what I do.

  Nas

  Style

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to nourish us, we would be like plants set in shallow soil. Our souls must take root - almost literally.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Character, Roots, Childhood

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• The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.

  Michelle Obama

  Education, Giving Up, Order

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• Socialists find me too far left; Trotskyites not far enough; ecologists say I am too happy eating foie gras, defending nuclear energy and GM plants; feminists find I am not enough of a woman; anarchists a petit-bourgeois who has sold out because I believe in universal suffrage.

  Michel Onfray

  Believe, Feminist, Energy

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• In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

  George Orwell

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wisdom

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• The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.

  Daniel D. Palmer

  Men, Humanity, Suffering

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• The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.

  Albert Pike

  Light, Medicine, Justice

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep, shilly-shally and engage in all manner of vagueness and innuendo. We do this and expect others to do it, yet at the same time we profess to long for the plain truth, for people to say what they mean, simple as that. Such hypocrisy is a human universal.

  Steven Pinker

  Mean, Simple, Long

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• The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate... is a totalitarian's dream.

  Steven Pinker

  Dream, Pursuit Of Happiness, Desire

  "Steven Pinker: the optimistic voice of science" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2011.

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• There is no society ever discovered in the remotest corner of the world that has not had something that we would consider the arts. Visual arts - decoration of surfaces and bodies - appears to be a human universal.

  Steven Pinker

  Art, World, Body

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• Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

  Chaim Potok

  Home, Men, People

  Chaim Potok (1984). “My Name is Asher Lev”, Fawcett

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• No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Faithful, Claims, Monopoly

  "Action must follow Obama's words" by Tariq Ramadan, www.theguardian.com. June 03, 2009.

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• If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.

  Ramakrishna

  Self, Way, Firsts

  Ramakrishna (1960). “Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120”

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• I'm not saying that 'Twilight' is, you know, some brilliant Oscar-winner, it's not 'Dr. Zhivago.' It's not trying to be. Because it is a female fantasy. I would argue that it's actually a universal fantasy. Which is, the fantasy being to be loved and cherished for exactly who you are.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Twilight, Trying, Female

  "A Conversation with Melissa Rosenberg – Writer of the Twilight Series". Interview with Melissa Rosenberg, www.indiewire.com. November 20, 2012.

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• If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

  J. K. Rowling

  Long, Cabins, Popularity

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• Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.

  Bertrand Russell

  Awareness, Conceiving, Concepts

  Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Bernd Frohmann (1992). “Logical and Philosophical Papers, 1909-13”, p.150, Psychology Press

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• All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

  Marquis de Sade

  Principles, Fancy, Moral

  Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr

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• Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us - in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their experience of the power of compassion.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Compassion, Depth, Trauma

  "There Is Always Trauma In The Room" by Sharon Salzberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2009.

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• The goal of real healthcare reform must be high-quality, universal coverage in a cost-effective way.

  Bernie Sanders

  Real, Healthcare Reform, Goal

  "Single payer health: it's only fair" by Bernie Sanders, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2011.

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• If the goal of health-care reform is to provide comprehensive, universal health care in a cost-effective way, the only honest approach is a single-payer approach.

  Bernie Sanders

  Goal, Reform, Cost

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

  George Santayana

  Love, Beauty, Wisdom

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.30, 谷月社

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• I've traveled around the world, and what's so revealing is that, despite the differences in culture, politics, language, how people dress, there is a universal feeling that we all want the same thing. We deeply want to be respected and appreciated for our differences.

  Howard Schultz

  Differences, People, Feelings

  "Bartiromo: Starbucks' Schultz eyes global growth". Interview with Maria Bartiromo, www.usatoday.com. September 15, 2013.

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• I think all women have a friend who at some point dumped them or betrayed them or deeply disappointed them. And at the same time all women have a friend who they dumped or betrayed or hurt in some way. That's universal in women's friendships.

  Lisa See

  Hurt, Thinking, Betrayed

  "Lisa See: Best-selling Author Talks Female Friendships, Adapting Her Novel To Film". Interview with Lucas Kavner, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2011.

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• Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.

  Al Sharpton

  Kings, Principles, Drs

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• If you ask someone if they like music, they look at you strangely. It seems to be a universal given. Like asking someone if they like breathing. It is like breathing. Or air, rather. Flowing without and within. A matrix within which our lives are set. The setting for the tableware of our beings.

  Jane Siberry

  Air, Breathing, Looks

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