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• From Harmony, from heav'nly Harmony. This universal Frame began.

  John Dryden

  Science, Harmony, Universe

  John Dryden (2013). “Selected Poems”, p.83, Courier Corporation

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• In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities, ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and ... entangling, from the highest to the lowest, all activities in the obscurity of a dizzying mechanism, hanging the flight of an insect upon the movement of the earth... Enormous gearing, whose first motor is the gnat, and whose last wheel is the zodiac.

  Victor Hugo

  Life, Stars, Science

  "Les misérables".

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• Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age purports to equip us to live and is prescribed as a universal remedy for everything from juvenile delinquency to premature senility.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Education, School, Age

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1979). “Things past”

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• Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost its former coherence: East and West, yesterday and tomorrow exist as a confused jumble in each one of us. Different times and different spaces are combined in a here and now that is everywhere at once.

  Octavio Paz

  Confused, Yesterday, Space

  Octavio Paz (1973). “Alternating Current”, p.21, Arcade Publishing

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• Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Glasses, Example, Looks

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• The Christian, the Mohammedan, the Jew - their emphasis is on the second: to die as soon as possible, to surrender to God. Prayer is their way. Prayer means dying, dying and disappearing as a person, becoming part of the universal, a surrender, a trust in God. The whole emphasis is on how to surrender your ego, sacrifice your ego, at the altar of the divine.

  Rajneesh

  Christian, Prayer, Mean

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• This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Meaningful, Regret, Mistake

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• Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen, and suggest every emotion which can be felt. Art reaches back into the babyhood of time, and is man's only lasting monument.

  William Morris Hunt

  Art, Book, Men

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• Together, we could open up government and invite citizens in, while connecting all of America to 21st century broadband. We could use technology to help achieve universal health care, to reach for a clean energy future, and to ensure that young Americans can compete - and win - in the global economy.

  Barack Obama

  Winning, Technology, Government

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• Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.

  C. Wright Mills

  Technology, Media, Fiction

  C. Wright Mills (2002). “White Collar: The American Middle Classes”, p.333, Oxford University Press

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• Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species' repertory. It comprises what we know of the material world with reasonable certainty. . . . Thanks to science and technology, access to factual information of all kinds is rising exponentially.

  E. O. Wilson

  Art, Technology, Humanity

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• But what is Freedom? Rightly understood, A universal licence to be good.

  Hartley Coleridge

  Wisdom, Liberty, Be Good

  'Liberty' (1833)

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• Indeed, nothing more beautifully simplifying has ever happened in the history of science than the whole series of discoveries culminating about 1914 which finally brought practically universal acceptance to the theory that the material world contains but two fundamental entities, namely, positive and negative electrons, exactly alike in charge, but differing widely in mass, the positive electron-now usually called a proton-being 1850 times heavier than the negative, now usually called simply the electron.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Acceptance, Science, Discovery

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• Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.

  Immanuel Kant

  Nature, Science, Law

  Immanuel Kant, David Walford, Ralf Meerbote (2003). “Theoretical Philosophy, 1755-1770”, p.191, Cambridge University Press

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• In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in the making the bondage of the negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, and sneered at, and construed, and hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Independence, Slavery, Sacred

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.396, Library of America

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• You who are journalists, writers, citizens, you have the right and duty to say to those you have elected that they must practice mindfulness, calm and deep listening, and loving speech. This is universal thing, taught by all religions.

  Nhat Hanh

  Practice, Meditation, Listening

  Thich Nhat Hanh, Sherab Chodzin Kohn (2006). “True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart”, p.92, Shambhala Publications

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• Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Wall, Awakening

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1409, Delphi Classics

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• In fact, nothing in science as a whole has been more firmly established by interwoven factual information, or more illuminating than the universal occurrence of biological evolution. Further, few natural processes have been more convincingly explained than evolution by the theory of natural selection, or as it has been popularly called, Darwinism.

  E. O. Wilson

  Religion, Atheism, Information

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• The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Brotherhood Of Man, Diversity

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Home, Rights, Community

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Allida Mae Black (2013). “Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt”, p.190, Columbia University Press

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• I am aware that the assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence. The idea of a universal and beneficent Creator does not seem to arise in the mind of man, until he has been elevated by long-continued culture.

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Ideas, Long

  Charles Darwin (1871). “The Descent of Man: And Selection in Relation to Sex”, p.395

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• Science provides an understanding of a universal experience, and arts provides a universal understanding of a personal experience.

  Mae Jemison

  Art, Science, Understanding

  "Teach arts and sciences together". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February, 2002.

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• True compassion is not just an emotional response, but a firm commitment founded on reason. Therefore, a truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change, even if they behave negatively. Through universal altruism, you develop a feeling of responsibility for others: the wish to help them actively overcome their problems.

  Dalai Lama

  Change, Wise, Wisdom

  Dalai Lama XIV, Rajiv Mehrotra (2010). “In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Elections are a kind of business. I have to present myself: 'I can do this and that for this area so please give me your vote'. People vote for the politicians who can best understand and contribute to their region or country. In a business you can choose your clients, and the message is targeted to them only. But politics is universal; no matter what age the audience, you have to send the same message to everyone.

  Takafumi Horie

  Country, Business, People

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• Spring is the season of gaiety, and winter of terror; in spring the heart of tranquility dances to the melody of the groves, and the eye of benevolence sparkles at the sight of happiness and plenty: in winter, compassion melts at universal calamity, and the tear of softness starts at the wailing of hunger and the cries of the creation in distress

  Samuel Johnson

  Spring, Heart, Eye

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