Universal Quotes - Page 6

• Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.

  Peter Singer

  Long, Library, Scholar

  Peter Singer (2017). “Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter”, p.298, Princeton University Press

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• 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 digital public library.

  Peter Singer

  Book, Reading, Moon

  Peter Singer (2016). “Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter”, p.300, Princeton University Press

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• Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.

  Yakov Smirnoff

  Funny, Happiness, Laughter

  FaceBook post by Yakov Smirnoff from Apr 03, 2014

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• 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 an increase in their income through moving into work or taking on more hours.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Moving, Scotland, People

  "An independent Scotland could not pay welfare bill, says Iain Duncan Smith". www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2012.

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• The storytelling in 'Doctor Who' is quite universal.

  Matt Smith

  Doctors, Storytelling, Doctor Who

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• Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.

  Susan Sontag

  Surrealism, Bourgeois

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.49, Macmillan

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• 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

  People, Way, Wealth

  "Fiscal Cliff Debate Is About Size of Government, Not Taxing 'the Rich'" by Thomas Sowell, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 4, 2012.

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• The bones of the story of 'War Horse' is a love story. That's what makes it universal.

  Steven Spielberg

  Horse, War, Stories

  "Steven Spielberg discusses War House". Interview with Victor Medina, www.cinelinx.com. April 11, 2012.

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• 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 universal nuisance.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Reality, Men, Nuisance

  "Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata" by Baruch Spinoza, Part III, (Prop. 30: Note), 1677.

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• 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 any correct definition of the term law.

  Lysander Spooner

  Law, Definitions, Term

  Lysander Spooner (1845). “The Unconstitutionality of Slavery”, p.6

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• Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.

  Gertrude Stein

  Supposing That, Strings, Beans

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• Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Organization, Soul, Conformity

  "Books of the Times" by Charles Poore, The New York Times, p. 23, April 20, 1953.

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• 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 in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal.

  Lytton Strachey

  Spain, Literature, France

  Lytton Strachey (1912). “Landmarks in French Literature”

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• 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 in the form of compassion. That is universal love. It is not just a sentiment. It cannot be manifested merely by a shift in mental disposition. It can only come from inner cleaning, an inner awakening.

  Radhanath Swami

  Hate, Compassion, Universal Love

  "Bhakti Yoga: In Search of a Lost Love" by Radhanath Swami, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 10, 2011.

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• 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 mankind.

  Jonathan Swift

  Death, Evil, Dying

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1824). “Sermons (cont.) Tracts in defence of Christianity. Tracts in support of the Church establishment. Tracts on the test act. Essays, periodical and miscellaneous”, p.56

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• 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 have the slightest doubt about human rights.

  Antonio Tabucchi

  Rights, Doubt, Lists

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• Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone.

  Daniel Tammet

  Math, Numbers, Culture

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• 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, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Football, Cutting, Personality

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward S”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Reality, Men, Humanity

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “WAR AND PEACE Complete Edition – All 15 Books in One Volume (World Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of Anna Karenina & The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Including the Biography & Memoirs of the Author)”, p.794, e-artnow

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• 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

  Self, Way, Moral

  "Facing the Future: Global Education at the Crossroads" by Desmond Tutu, Dennis Van Roekel, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 21, 2010.

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• The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  Country, Unique, Perception

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division (2004). “Towards a new world: defining moments”

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• The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.

  Giambattista Vico

  Communication, Language Words, Order

  Giambattista Vico, Thomas Goddard Bergin (1948). “The new science of Giambattista Vico”

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• We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Age, Movement, Exploration

  Alfred de Vigny (1840). “Cinq Mars (Complete)”, p.3, Library of Alexandria

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  A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Positive, Smile

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• The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.

  Josiah Warren

  Luxury, Empires, Individual

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