Universal Quotes - Page 28

• Art is not the most precious manifestation of life. Art has not the celestial and universal value that people like to attribute to it. Life is far more interesting.

  Tristan Tzara

  Art, People, Interesting

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• Do people believe in human rights because such rights actually exist, like mathematical truths, sitting on a cosmic shelf next to the Pythagorean theorem just waiting to be discovered by Platonic reasoners? Or do people feel revulsion and sympathy when they read accounts of torture, and then invent a story about universal rights to help justify their feelings?

  Jonathan Haidt

  Believe, Pythagorean Theorem, Rights

  Jonathan Haidt (2012). “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”, p.32, Vintage

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• Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.

  Walter Pater

  Beauty, Art, Abstract

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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• There is only one Church, and the responsibility for missionary work is universal. 'Every member a missionary.'

  James E. Faust

  Responsibility, Church, Missionary

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• The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance.
  He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him.
  But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are
  given to administer we presently imagine we own.

  H. G. Wells

  Men, Law, Weakness

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.14671, Delphi Classics

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• The purpose cannot be creating self-styled democracies, but rather encouraging steps that are conducive to establishing democratic rule at universal standards. Obviously, this would be a formidable journey

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Journey, Self, Creating

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• The regional voice is the universal voice.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Voice

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art”, p.1, Zondervan

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• A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.

  Alan Turing

  Men, Discipline, Machines

  "Intelligent Machinery: A Report by A. M. Turing". Submitted to the National Physical Laboratory in 1948. "Key Papers: Cybernetics". Book edited by C. R. Evans and A. D. J. Robertson, 1968.

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• The concept of the Web is of universal readership.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Internet, Readership, Concepts

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• The soldier is on friendlier terms than other men with his stomach and intestines. Three-quarters of his vocabulary is derived from these regions, and they give an intimate flavour to expressions of his greatest joy as well as of his deepest indignation. It is impossible to express oneself in any other way so clearly and pithily. Our families and our teachers will be shocked when we go home, but here it is the universal language.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Teacher, Home, Men

  Erich Maria Remarque (2000). “All quiet on the western front and related readings”

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• As long as no more than a small minority are capable of reading and writing, universal alphabetization seems like a messianic project. Only once everyone has this ability does one notice the catastrophe that almost no one can do it properly.

  Peter Sloterdijk

  Reading, Writing, Long

  Peter Sloterdijk (2014). “You Must Change Your Life”, p.443, John Wiley & Sons

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• I have never really been a great artist. I have been a human being that has loved art, which is not the same thing. But I have loved and believed in art and the idea of universal brotherhood so much, that I have put everything I have into them, and I have been blessed.

  Josephine Baker

  Art, Blessed, Ideas

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• Just because it’s a unique perspective doesn’t mean it can’t offer something universal.

  Lynn Nottage

  Mean, Unique, Perspective

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• We shall fight for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Peace, Fighting, Safety

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.257, Lexington Books

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• Universal rushed us. We started shooting without a script that was totally completed.

  John Landis

  Shooting, Scripts

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• In order to have a literature, a nation must live, not merely on the practical, but on the moral and spiritual plane as well, contributing through its national life to the development of some side of the universal spirit of man.

  Vissarion Belinsky

  Spiritual, Men, Order

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• I would rather propose a bureau somewhat similar to that which we have in the Universal Postal Union.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Unions, Propose

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• Universal brotherhood is not even a beautiful dream. Antagonism is essential to man's greatest efforts.

  Theodor Herzl

  Beautiful, Dream, Men

  Theodor Herzl (2015). “A Jewish State: Proposal of a modern solution for the Jewish question”, p.62, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Faith in Jesus Christ and a testimony of Him and His universal Atonement is not just a doctrine with great theological value. Such faith is a universal gift, glorious for all cultural regions of this earth, irrespective of language, race, color, nationality, or socioeconomic circumstance. The powers of reason may be used to try to understand this gift, but those who feel its effects most deeply are those who are willing to accept its blessings, which come from a pure and clean life of following the path of true repentance and living the commandments of God.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Blessing, Race

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• This notion of universal Windows apps is a very powerful concept because we're now aggregating the 300-plus-million-socket run rate of Windows into one opportunity for our developers.

  Satya Nadella

  Running, Powerful, Opportunity

  "Satya Nadella: WPC 2014 Keynote". news.microsoft.com. July 16, 2014.

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• There are time when friends have said they hooked up with someone and all it means is that they had a highly anticipated kissing session. Other times it's a full-on all-night sex-a-thon. Can't we have a universal understanding of the term, once and for all? From now on, let's all agree that hooking up = sex. Everything else is 'made out.' And if you're older than twenty-eight, then just kissing someone doesn't count for crap and is not even worth mentioning. Unless you're Mormon, in which case you're going to hell.

  Mindy Kaling

  Sex, Mean, Kissing

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• Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality

  Gilles Deleuze

  Fiction, Levels, States

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• The world can therefore seize the opportunity (the Persian Gulf crisis) to fulfill the long held promise of a New World Order where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind.

  George H. W. Bush

  Opportunity, Order, Nwo

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• Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Art, Men, Universal Life

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “WHAT IS ART? & WHEREIN IS TRUTH IN ART? (Meditations on Aesthetics & Literature): On the Significance of Science and Art, Shakespeare and the Drama, The Works of Guy De Maupassant, A. Stockham'sTokology, Amiel's Diary, S. T. Seménov's Peasant Stories, Stop and Think!...”, p.50, e-artnow

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• The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line.

  Piet Mondrian

  Essence, Lines, Painting

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