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  • Neither creator nor critic can make himself universal by barely taking thought about it. He is what he lives. The measure of the creator is the amount of life he puts Into his work. The measure of the critic is the amount of life he finds there.
  • One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.
  • Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.
  • Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.
  • The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
  • Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
  • For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it?
  • We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
    Major Campaign Speeches of Adlai E. Stevenson (1952)
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • A. Sachs Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
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  • Immanuel Kant Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
    Immanuel Kant
    German philosopher (1724 - 1804)
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  • Heywood Broun The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
    Heywood Broun
    American Journalist, Novelist (1888 - 1939)
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  • Abdelaziz Bouteflika A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.
    Abdelaziz Bouteflika
    Algerian politician (1937 - )
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  • Walter Bagehot A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Alain Badiou A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
    Alain Badiou
    French philosopher (1937 - )
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  • Alain Badiou A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
    Alain Badiou
    French philosopher (1937 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • William Arthur Ward A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
    William Arthur Ward
    American writer and poet (1921 - 1994)
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  • Henry Fielding All nature wears one universal grin.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Samuel Butler All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Swami Ramdas All spiritual disciplined are done with a view to still the mind. The perfectly still mind is universal spirit.
    Swami Ramdas
    Indian saint, philosopher, philanthropist and pilgrim (1884 - 1963)
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  • Camille Paglia American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Arthur Henderson Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg 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...
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Jeremy Collier As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive; no laconism can reach it: 'Tis the short hand of the mind, and crowds a great deal in a little room
    Jeremy Collier
    English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (1650 - 1726)
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  • Brendan Myers At the risk of sounding like a spoilsport, I'd say that pagans have about the same experience of otherness and isolation as anyone else. We're not special in that regard. But this is because the problem of loneliness is almost universal - and that, to my mind, makes it much more serious.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.
    Logical and Philosophical Papers, 1909-13
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Hartley Coleridge But what is Freedom? Rightly understood,
    A universal license to be good.
    Liberty
    Hartley Coleridge
    English poet, biographer and writer (eldest son of S. T. Coleridge) (1796 - 1849)
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