Universal Quotes

• You can’t propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Space, Propose

  "Frequently asked questions". www.w3.org. 1998.

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• If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Risk being unliked. Tell the truth as you understand it. If you’re a writer you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act—truth is always subversive.

  Anne Lamott

  Real, Writing, Emotional

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• There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [259]

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• Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Powerful, Soul, Alchemist

  "The Alchemist". Book by Paulo Coelho, 1988.

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• In these days of political, personal and economic disintegration, music is not a luxury, it's a necessity; not simply because it is therapeutic, nor because it is the universal language, but because it is the persistent focus of our intelligence, aspiration and goodwill.

  Robert Lawson Shaw

  Music, Luxury, Focus

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• God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.

  Giordano Bruno

  Spiritual, Substance, Fountain

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• As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an apothecary wouldn't let it go for less than half-a-crown.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Everyday, Let It Go, Pennies

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook B 33, 1799.

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• Our ultimate weapon is not our guns but our beliefs ... Ours are not Western values. They are the universal values of the human spirit and anywhere, any time, ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same. Freedom not tyranny. Democracy not dictatorship. The rule of law not the rule of the secret police. The spread of freedom is the best security for the free. It is our last line of defence and our first line of attack.

  Tony Blair

  Gun, Law, Western Values

  Address to Congress Accepting Congressional Gold Medal, delivered 17 July 2003, Joint Session of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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• The 'almighty dollar' is the true divinity, and its worship is universal.

  Isabella Bird

  Money, Dollars, Divinity

  Isabella L. Bird (2012). “A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains”, p.127, Courier Corporation

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• As an artist you're looking for universal triggers. You want it both ways. You want it to have an immediate impact, and you want it to have deep meanings as well. I'm striving for both. But I hate it when people write things that sound like they've swallowed a f... dictionary.

  Damien Hirst

  Hate, Writing, Artist

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• I feel that faith and feminism have a deep relationship to each other and that both are responses to the deep human yearning for connection and for peace on earth, and that they both have a vision of universal human equity.

  Helen LaKelly Hunt

  God, Vision, Feminism

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• If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  God, Atheist, Religion

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• On the one hand we have got to ask, are there some areas of universal benefits that are no longer affordable? But on the other hand let us look at the issue of dependency where we have trapped people in poverty through the extent of welfare that they have.

  David Cameron

  Hands, Issues, People

  "David Cameron claims welfare reform will save in the long run" by Paul Owen, www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2010.

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• I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Mother, Believe, Literature

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.119, Wordsworth Editions

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• Love is the internal, affectively apprehended, aspect of the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the expression and the agent of universal synthesis.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Love, Together, Facts

  "Activation of Energy: Enlightening Reflections on Spiritual Energy". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1976.

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• All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

  Samuel Butler

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 1

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• Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Rights, Civilization, Standards

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, progressive.org. September 1, 2004.

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• When you're a kid, 'Star Trek' is a slower burn. It's funny, it's entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it - which is its universal appeal, I think.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Stars, Kids, Maturity

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• I hate it when people don't recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to men's work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal - men's writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context.

  Ani DiFranco

  Hate, Writing, Men

  "Interview: Righteous Babe Ani DiFranco". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September 8, 1999.

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• A smile is the universal welcome.

  Max Eastman

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

  Max Eastman (1921). “The Sense of Humor”

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• Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.

  Mason Cooley

  Mistake, Literature, Originality

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• The sea is the universal sewer.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ocean, Sea, Conservation

  1971 Testimony before the House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 28 Jan.

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• When I write I'm never really thinking about themes or the universal.

  Lena Dunham

  Writing, Thinking, Theme

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• When I have time off, my friends and I will go to Universal Studios, the movies, out to eat, and shopping. I'm happiest when I'm just hanging out with my friends... it really doesn't matter what we do.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Shopping, Matter, Universal Studios

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• None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.

  Lydia M. Child

  Jesus, Bravery, Political

  "Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 34, 1843.

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