Universal Quotes
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See also Core English Vocabulary (U) List-
Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.
Thomas Sydenham
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If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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There never were in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity
Michel de Montaigne
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May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
Immanuel Kant
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We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified ...
Henry Beston
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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
T.S. Eliot
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If you`re holding out for universal popularity, I`m afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.
Andy Klotz
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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.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.
Tim Berners-Lee
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Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life
Akhenaton
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Aristotle
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The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.
Mark Twain
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For me, a large part of Jungle Fever (1991) is about sexual mythology: the mythology of a white woman being on a pedestal, the universal standard of beauty, and the mythology about the black man as sexual stud with a ten-foot dick. Buying into the mytholo...
Spike Lee
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It is really a great thing when you get to inspire others with your words on such a universal level. I will never forget meeting these two girls, Dee and MJ. When they told me all that my music had done for them, it was just such a great feeling. They are...
Jon Bon Jovi
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[on her character in "The Bitch"] She appears to have the world by the balls, but underneath she`s trying to solve the problem of loneliness, which I think is the universal problem of all rich people.
Joan Collins
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[on The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)] If you have any ideas for a script, please, call Universal! We`ve gone so far from the book. [Robert Ludlum] wrote it as a trilogy and we`ve really kind of ignored that plot because it`s very Cold War. And so, in the updat...
Matt Damon
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[on the continuing appeal of Gone with the Wind (1939)] It will go on forever, and how thrilling that is. It has this universal life, this continuing life. Every nation has experienced war - and defeat and renaissance. So all people can identify with the ...
Olivia De Havilland
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What I would like is to make Hollywood movies, that is, movies as wonderful and universal, but at the same time not as hypocritical, as Hollywood.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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I`m just nervous and anxious all the time - I drink too much coffee. But you know, everything can be solved with a bottle; the bottle is a universal cure-all - and not just a booze bottle, any bottle. You break up with your boyfriend, you get a bottle of ...
Gina Gershon
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I was 18 when I saw Akira Kurosawa`s Shichinin no samurai (1954). After about 30 seconds, I realized that this was not just a cultural thing, it was universal. Years later, I read Bushido. It talked about many things that I strive for in my own life: loya...
Tom Cruise
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Well, we are under the universal umbrella, as they say. - When asked if he was surprised by the Killers` worldwide popularity.
Brandon Flowers
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Many things, feelings especially, are common to all human beings. As long as the film appeals to universal human feelings, all audiences will enjoy it.
Yimou Zhang
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Lots of sci-fi movies are much ado about nothing. What I liked about [The Island (2005)] is that it`s a universal thing: we all want to live longer. But how selfish would you be to achieve that? You could get a liver, a heart, kidneys, essential things. B...
Michael Bay
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On how he got the role of Captain Jonathan Archer: "Kerry McCluggage and Garry Hart were both at Universal when I did Quantum Leap. We had a long and very good relationship. My production company was already at Paramount when they approached me. I was exc...
Scott Bakula
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So, yes, we won for ourselves a criteria, a mantra, which is that we only make what we want to make in the way we want to make it. I believe we make universal stories for the world, but it has an Australian voice, and to maintain that voice you must be co...
Baz Luhrmann
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You`ll see humor, but it will be universal.
Artemus Ward (writer)
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You know, for a long time I have been of the opinion that artists don`t necessarily know what they`re doing. You don`t necessarily know what kind of universal concept you`re tapping into.
Leonard Nimoy
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Women`s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
Al Hummel
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When it is working, you completely go into another place, you`re tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own self. That`s what it`s all about.
Keith Haring
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When all of us are united on an issue, then one of two things has happened. Either the earth has spun off its axis, and we have all lost our minds, or there is universal support for a concept.
Anne VanBeber
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