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• The philosopher's conception of things will, above all, be truer than other men's, and his philosophy will subordinate all the circumstances of life. To live like a philosopher is to live, not foolishly, like other men, but wisely and according to universal laws.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• Nonviolence is a universal law acting under all circumstances.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law, Acting, Circumstances

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gandhigrams”

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• So act that anything you do may become universal law.

  Immanuel Kant

  Carpe Diem, Law, May

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• You'll be happy to know that the universal law that created miracles hasn't been repealed.

  Wayne Dyer

  Happy, Law, Miracle

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Jan 27, 2011

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• What are the sciences but maps of universal laws, and universal laws but the channels of universal power; and universal power but the outgoings of a universal mind?

  Edward Thomson

  Science, Law, Mind

  Edward Thomson (1872). “Evidences of Revealed Religion”, p.52

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• Nothing comes to pass in nature, which can be set down to a flaw therein; for nature is always the same, and everywhere one and the same in her efficacy and power of action: that is, nature's laws and ordinances, whereby all things come to pass and change from one form to another, are everywhere and always the same; so that there should be one and the same method of understanding the nature of all things whatsoever, namely, through nature's universal laws and rules.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Nature, Law, Understanding

  "Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata" by Baruch Spinoza, Part III, (Preface), 1677.

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• A shortcut is the longest distance between two points.

  Charles Issawi

  Distance, Two, Shortcuts

  Charles Philip Issawi (1999). “Growing Up Different: Memoirs of a Middle East Scholar”, Darwin Press, Incorporated

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• This, then, is the doctrine of the resurrection. We do not believe--at least I do not--that law has been rudely violated in one extraordinary and unparalleled episode. We believe that a universal law of life, overmastering death, and always superior to it, has had once a visible witness.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Easter, Believe, Law

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• Deep down within the heart there is a stillness which is healing, a trust in the universal laws which is unwavering, and a strength which is rock-like. But because it is so deep we need both patience and perseverance when digging for it.

  Paul Brunton

  Perseverance, Healing, Heart

  Paul Brunton (1984). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton”, Larson Publication

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• Who else speaks for the Family of Man?
  They are in tune and step
  with constellations of universal law.

  Carl Sandburg

  Men, Law, Unity

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.616, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law.

  Immanuel Kant

  Law, Principles, Action

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• The United States, knowing no distinction of her own citizens on account of religion or nationality, naturally believes in a civilization the world over which will secure the same universal laws.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Believe, Law, Civilization

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• Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. If one's faith requires one to abandon or ignore natural laws, well, that person is going to have trouble reconciling religion and science. Otherwise, there is no any conflict.

  Bill Nye

  Law, Goal, Conflict

  Source: biologos.org

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• Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

  Immanuel Kant

  Time, Law, Should

  Immanuel Kant, James Wesley Ellington (1994). “Ethical Philosophy: The Complete Texts of Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals, and Metaphysical Principles of Virtue, Part II of The Metaphysics of Morals, with On a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns”, p.30, Hackett Publishing

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• Music is the sound of the universal laws promulgated. It is the only assured tone. There are in it such strains as far surpass anyman's faith in the loftiness of his destiny. Things are to be learned which it will be worth the while to learn.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Knowledge, Destiny

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.124, Xist Publishing

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• We become a Co-worker with God at every step of the spiritual path. This is a universal law. There is great hope here for those who are sincere in finding out who and what they are, becoming a Co-worker with God, and realising the Kingdom of Heaven while still living in the body. The key lies within you.

  Harold Klemp

  Spiritual, Lying, Keys

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• Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal laws which it discloses yet it does not surprise the moral sentiment that was older and awaited expectant these larger insights.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Law, Perception

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.183

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• I am fully assured, that no general method for the solution of questions in the theory of probabilities can be established which does not explicitly recognize, not only the special numerical bases of the science, but also those universal laws of thought which are the basis of all reasoning, and which, whatever they may be as to their essence, are at least mathematical as to their form.

  George Boole

  Law, Essence, Special

  George Boole (1952). “Collected Logical Works”

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• I ought never to act except in such a way that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal law.

  Immanuel Kant

  Law, Als, Way

  "Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals". Book by Immanuel Kant, 1785.

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• Therefore God's universal law Gave to the man despotic power Over his female in due awe, Not from that right to part an hour, Smile she or lour.

  John Milton

  Men, Law, Female

  John Bell, Joseph Addison, John Banks, Michael Arne, John Brown (1796). “British Theatre: Caractacus”

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• Most things get steadily worse.

  Charles Issawi

  Charles Philip Issawi (1991). “Issawi's laws of social motion”, Darwin Pr

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• Most people do not go to the dentist until they have a toothache; most societies do not reform abuses until the victims begin to make life uncomfortable for others.

  Charles Issawi

  People, Abuse, Reform

  Charles Philip Issawi (1991). “Issawi's laws of social motion”, Darwin Pr

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• Yo, it's 1 universal law but 2 sides to every story,
  3 strikes and you be in for life, mandatory.
  4 MC's murdered in the last 4 years,
  I ain't tryin to be the 5th one, the Millennium is here.
  Yo, it's 6 million ways to die, from the 7 deadly thrills,
  8-year olds gettin' found with 9 mill's.
  It's 10 P.M., where your seeds at? What's the deal?

  Mos Def

  Rap, Years, Law

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• No government is lawful or innocent that does not recognize the moral law as the only universal law, and God as the Supreme Lawgiver and Judge, to whom nations in their national capacity, as well as individuals, are amenable.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Government, Law, Judging

  Charles Grandison Finney (1846). “Lectures on Systematic Theology: Embracing Lectures on Moral Government, Together with Atonement, Moral and Physical Depravity, Regeneration, Philosophical Theories, and Evidences of Regeneration”, p.435

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• How little do the most wonderful inventions of modern times detain us. They insult nature. Every machine, or particular application, seems a slight outrage against universal laws.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Law, Progress

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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