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• There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond territory, it is something we all have in common

  Ted Koppel

  Special, Territory, Common

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• It seems to me, thinking of it, that there must be some universal plan which set in motion the orbiting of the electrons about the nucleus and the slower, more majestic orbit of the galaxies about one another to the very edge of space

  Clifford D. Simak

  Thinking, Space, Orbit

  Clifford D. Simak (2015). “A Choice of Gods”, p.101, Open Road Media

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• I have tried at times to place humans in perspective against the vastness of universal time and space. I have been concerned with where we, as a race, may be going and what may be our purpose in the universal scheme — if we have a purpose. In general, I believe we do, and perhaps an important one.

  Clifford D. Simak

  Believe, Race, Space

  The Associated Press obituary, April 27, 1988.

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• There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of LACK OF AMBITION!

  Napoleon Hill

  Ambition, People, Weakness

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.71, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• You keep thinking that with practice you will eventually get the knack of enjoying superficial encounters, that you will stop looking for the universal solvent, stop grieving. You will learn to compound happiness out of small increments of mindless pleasure.

  Jay McInerney

  Thinking, Grieving, Practice

  Jay McInerney (2011). “Bright Lights, Big City”, p.52, Vintage

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• The universal view melts things into a blur.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Views, Blur

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• In this country there is a universal third person, the man we all want to be. Advertising has discovered this man. It uses him to express the possibilities open to the consumer. To consume in America is not to buy; it is to dream. Advertising is the suggestion that the dream of entering the third person singular might possibly be fulfilled.

  Don DeLillo

  Dream, Country, Men

  Don DeLillo (1989). “Americana”, p.189, Penguin

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• For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal.

  James Joyce

  Writing, Heart, Cities

  James Joyce (2016). “Stephen Hero & A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Two Autobiographical Novels): Including Biography of the Author”, p.386, e-artnow

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• In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a man, and I cry to all: “Help me!

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Suffering, Trying

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.3568, Delphi Classics

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• Keep searchin’ for your mystery note on the universal piano of life.

  Rahsaan Roland Kirk

  Piano, Mystery, Notes

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• Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way. Universal suffrage on a common voters' roll in a united, democratic and non-racial South Africa is the only way to peace and racial harmony.

  Nelson Mandela

  Voters, Way, Common

  Rally Address Following Release From Pollsmoor Prison, delivered 11 February 1990, Cape Town, South Africa

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• True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, national origin or any other identity attribute.

  Desmond Tutu

  Commitment, Rights, Ethnicity

  "Divesting From Injustice" by Desmond Tutu, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2010.

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• The universe itself is God and the universal outpouring of its soul.

  Chrysippus

  Soul, Universe

  "De Natura Deorum" by Cicero (i. 15),

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• Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty.

  James Q. Wilson

  Inspirational, Self, People

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• Charity is ... a universal remedy against discord, and an holy cement for mankind.

  William Penn

  Charity, Holy, Mankind

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.198

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• A technique can only work if it is in harmony with universal principles. Such principles need to be grasped through Mind, pure consciousness. Selfish desires thwart your progress, but Mind, not captivated by notions of victory or defeat, will liberate you. Mind fixes your senses and keeps you centered. Mind is the key to wondrous power and supreme clarity.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Selfish, Keys, Track

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.103, Shambhala Publications

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• The time for universal praise is sure to come some day. Let us begin to do our part now.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Christian, Christian Inspirational, Praise

  Hannah Whitall Smith (2011). “God of All Comfort”, p.252, Anamchara Books

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• Oneness is the perfect expansion
  Of our inner reality.
  Let our hearts oneness only increase
  To make us feel
  That we belong to a universal world ? family,
  And this world ? family
  Is a fulfilled Dream of God.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Dream, Heart, Reality

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• I believe faith is a human universal. We are endowed at birth with nascent capacities for faith. How these capacities are activated and grow depends to a large extent on how we are welcomed into the world and what kinds of environments we grow in. Faith is interactive and social; it requires community, language, ritual and nurture. Faith is also shaped by initiatives from beyond us and other people, initiatives of spirit or grace. How these latter initiatives are recognized and imaged, or unperceived and ignored, powerfully affects the shape of faith in our lives.

  James W. Fowler

  Faith, Believe, People

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• God tells me that
  My happy heart
  Increases the beauty
  Of His universal Heart.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Heart, Increase, Happy Heart

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• He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed - love and honor and pity and compassion and sacrifice. See Poets & Writers

  William Faulkner

  Teaching, Heart, Sacrifice

  Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Stockholm, 10 Dec. 1950

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• As we have always seen here in the U.S. the universal truth about elections is that people vote their pocketbook.

  Jennifer Dunn

  People, Election, Vote

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• I was never the sort of child who believed in "monsters under the bed" or vampires, or who needed a night-light in his bedroom; on the contrary, my father...once laughingly told my mother that he thought I might suffer from a type of benign psychosis called "antiparanoia," in which I seemed to believe that I was the object of an intricate universal conspiracy to make me so happy I could hardly stand it.

  David Foster Wallace

  Mother, Children, Father

  "All That" by David Foster Wallace, www.newyorker.com. December 14, 2009.

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• The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.

  Kenneth R. Miller

  Music, Mean, Air

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• Isn't food important? Why not "universal food coverage"? If politicians and employers had guaranteed us "free" food 50 years ago, today Democrats would be wailing about the "food crisis" in America, and you'd be on the phone with your food care provider arguing about whether or not a Reuben sandwich with fries was covered under your plan.

  Ann Coulter

  Phones, Years, America

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