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• While once it was the rank and file that cheered with all the partisan passions at their heights, today it is the party leaders who are cheering themselves; and all by themselves. The mob that is their audience is in one vast universal trance, thinking about something else.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Leadership, Cheer, Party

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• Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, Life, Religion

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• The quest for this unwearied peace is constant and universal. Probe deeply into the teaching of Buddha, Maimonides, or a Kempis, and you will discover that they base their diverse doctrines on the foundation of a large spiritual serenity. Analyze the prayers of troubled, overborne mankind of all creeds, in every age-and their petitions come down to the irreducible common denominators of daily bread and inward peace. Grown men do not pray for vain trifles. When they lift up their hearts and voices in the valley of tears they ask for strength and courage and understanding.

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Spiritual, Peace, Prayer

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• Movement is the universal language of personal freedom.

  Louis Chevrolet

  Movement, Language, Personal Freedom

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• Mysticism—Magic and Yoga—is the means, therefore, to a new universal life, richer, greater and more full of resource than ever before, as free as sunlight, as gracious as the unfolding of a rose. It is for man (and woman) to take.

  Israel Regardie

  Yoga, Mean, Men

  Israel Regardie (1972). “The Tree of Life: A Study in Magic”, p.34, Weiser Books

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• We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are a part of the universe, and are connected with each other to form one whole unity. This idea helps the mind of the child to become fixed, to stop wandering in an aimless quest for knowledge. He is satisfied, having found the universal centre of himself with all things.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Ideas, Unity

  Maria Montessori (2015). “To Educate the Human Potential”, p.6, Ravenio Books

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• Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is
  par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Order, Excellence

  MARIA MONTESSORI “HER LIFE AND WORK”

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• The needs of mankind are universal. Our means of meeting them create the richness and diversity of the planet. The Montessori child should come to relish the texture of that diversity.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Mean, Diversity

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• The Holy Grail of universal coverage in the United States may remain out of reach unless, through rational collective action overriding some individual self-interest, we can reduce per capita costs.

  Donald Berwick

  Self, Holy Grail, United States

  "The Triple Aim: Care, Health, And Cost" by Donald Berwick, Thomas W. Nolan and John Whittington in "Health Affairs", Volume 27, No. 3 (pp. 759-769), May/June 2008.

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• I was forced, through seeing the error of their foundation, to abandon all belief in every religion which had been taught to man. But my religious feelings were immediately replaced by the spirit of universal charity — not for a sect, or a party, or for a country or a colour — but for the human race, and with a real and ardent desire to do good.

  Robert Owen

  Country, Religious, Real

  Robert Owen (1857). “The Life of Robert Owen Written by Himself: With Selections from His Writings and Correspondence”, p.16

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• I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all the particulars there are, the deepening of each particular, the coexistence of them all.

  Aime Cesaire

  Different Ideas, Rich, Coexist

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• I say we must have a movement that brings those troops home and launch a crusade to transform our school buildings, we launch a crusade to see to it that every citizen has adequate and affordable housing, we launch a crusade to make universal health care. We need not soldiers anymore in the world. We've had enough of them in western history.

  James Lawson

  Home, School, Soldier

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• The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system

  Eric Hobsbawm

  Metrics, Revolution, Metric System

  Eric J. Hobsbawm (1994). “Age of extremes: the short twentieth century, 1914-1991”

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• In recent times, more and more human thinking has come to assume that the idea of a universal natural law and the idea of 'God' are pointing to one and the same reality.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Reality, Thinking, Law

  Wilhelm Reich (1951). “Cosmic Superimposition: Man's Orgonotic Roots in Nature”

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• Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed.

  Robert J. Sawyer

  Wanting To Die, Constant, Dies

  Robert J. Sawyer (2009). “Calculating God”, p.77, Macmillan

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• Meditation, then, is not so much a part of this or that particular religion, but rather part of the universal spiritual culture of all humankind--an effort to bring awareness to bear on all aspects of life. It is, in other words, part of what has been called the perennial philosophy.

  Ken Wilber

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Effort

  Ken Wilber (2001). “Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber”, p.78, Shambhala Publications

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• What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of Lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil. The intellectual Lucifer is the spirit of intelligence and love; it is the paraclete, it is the Holy Spirit, while the physical Lucifer is the great agent of universal magnetism.

  Eliphas Levi

  Names, Evil, Intellectual

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• The cross solved our problem by first revealing our real problem, our universal pattern of scapegoating and sacrificing others. The cross exposes forever the scene of our crime.

  Richard Rohr

  Real, Sacrifice, Forever

  Richard Rohr (2011). “AARP Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life”, p.77, John Wiley & Sons

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• Church practice has been more influenced by Plato than by Jesus. We invariably prefer the universal synthesis, the answer that settles all the dust and resolves every question even when it is not entirely true over the mercy and grace of God.

  Richard Rohr

  Jesus, Plato, Dust

  Richard Rohr (2011). “Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life”, p.56, John Wiley & Sons

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• People hide behind the word aesthetic. They say, ‘Well, it’s just that designer’s aesthetic.’ But when you see 18 seasons in a row and not one single model outside a certain skin color…? There are people in the industry who are advocates, who support diversity. And there are people who do not. I don’t get it. Beauty is universal. These doors have to open.

  Joan Smalls

  Skin Color, Doors, People

  "The Return of the Supermodel: It's Joan Smalls" by Molly Young, www.elle.com. December 4, 2013.

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• It is only after we have integrated the dark side of the moon into our world view that we can begin to talk seriously of universal culture.

  Shulamith Firestone

  Dark, Moon, Our World

  SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX: THE CASE FOR FEMINIST REVOLUTION”

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• I am now experiencing perfect health, abundant prosperity and complete and utter happiness. This is true because the world is full of charming people who now lovingly help me in every way. I am now coming into an innumerable company of angels. I am now living a delightful, interesting and satisfying life of the most widely useful kind. Because of my own increased health, wealth and happiness, I am now able to help others live a delightful, interesting and satisfying life of the most widely useful kind, my good - our good - is universal.

  Catherine Ponder

  Angel, Helping Others, Wealth And Happiness

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• The idea of imposing universal peace on the world by force is a barbarian fantasy.

  Garet Garrett

  Ideas, World, Barbarians

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• The Old Ones knew that life is not rare, but precious; not fragile, but vulnerable. Life is as deep as the seas in which it was born, as strong as the mountains that give it shelter, as universal as the stars themselves.

  Ben Bova

  Strong, Stars, Sea

  Ben Bova (2008). “Mars Life”, p.313, Macmillan

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• The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than
  is the analysis of the human heart. We live in an age of universal
  investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
  France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama,
  because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other
  the individual lot of man. These embrace the whole of life. But it is the
  province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond
  life, beyond time, into eternity.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Philosophy, Drama, Heart

  Alfred De Vigny (2018). “Cinq Mars”, p.11, BoD – Books on Demand

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