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• I am constantly thankful. The world is so beautiful, I am thankful. I have endless energy, I am thankful. I am plugged into the source of Universal Supply, I am thankful. I am plugged into the source of Universal Truth, I am thankful. I have this constant feeling of thankfulness, which is a prayer.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Beautiful, Prayer, Feelings

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.74, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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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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• Those experienced in work must take up the study of theory and must read seriously; only then will they be able to systematize and synthesize their experience and raise it to the level of theory, only then will they not mistake their partial experience for universal truth and not commit empiricist errors.

  Mao Zedong

  Mistake, Errors, Levels

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.156, Lulu.com

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• By means of personal experimentation and observation, we can discover certain simple and universal truths. The mind moves the body, and the body follows the mind. Logically then, negative thought patterns harm not only the mind but also the body. What we actually do builds up to affect the subconscious mind and in turn affects the conscious mind and all reactions.

  H. E Davey

  Moving, Yoga, Mean

  "Japanese Yoga: The Way of Dynamic Meditation". Book by H. E. Davey, 2001.

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• The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths.

  Tom Hooper

  Touching, Ends, Bigger

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• Universal truths have become an embarrassment, but they won't quite go away.

  Mason Cooley

  Truth, Going Away, Embarrassment

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• For the artist, the goal of the painting or musical composition is not to convey literal truth, but an aspect of a universal truth that if successful, will continue to move and to touch people even as contexts, societies and cultures change. For the scientist, the goal of a theory is to convey "truth for now"--to replace an old truth, while accepting that someday this theory, too, will be replaced by a new "truth," because that is the way science advances.

  Daniel Levitin

  Moving, Successful, Artist

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• The version of cosmopolitanism that I favor is exactly about balancing universality and difference. Many people who believe rightly in universality, want, wrongly, I think, to impose their vision of the world on others. They think not just that there are universal truths but that they already know what they are. And they don't think they have anything to learn, as a result, from others. They don't converse, they try to convert.

  Kwame Anthony Appiah

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.

  Vince Vaughn

  Heart, Views, People

  "Vince Vaughn: The Biggest Man in the Room" by Chris Jones, www.esquire.com. November 18, 2008.

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• I think it's a universal truth that most chefs I know are happiest eating simple, unadorned good things.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Simple, Thinking, Chef

  "Interview: Anthony Bourdain Is Ready To 'Get Jiro' With His New Food Focused Graphic Novel". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. June 26, 2012.

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• An aphorism is a personal observation inflated into a universal truth, a private posing as a general.

  Stefan Kanfer

  Privacy, Aphorism, Posing

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• In fantasy, the expression of exploring another world, you get the universal truth of that excitement and fear, but there's an element of fantasy that you have to not forget so you can take people on that journey.

  Dan Payne

  Journey, Expression, People

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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• I'm always working in this universe - whether picturing hamburger joints, Virgin Marys, domestic scenes - using these "vacant-faced" women as a medium to question universal truths.

  Miles Aldridge

  Scene, Virgin Mary, Universe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.

  Feist

  Happiness, Romantic Love, People

  "Feist: A Pop Star With A Punk-Rock Past". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. September 30, 2011.

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• But Truth is that besides which there is nothing: nothing to modify it, nothing to question it, nothing to form an exception: the all-inclusive, the complete - By Truth, I mean the Universal.

  Charles Fort

  Truth, Mean, Form

  Charles Fort (2016). “The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration”, p.11, Penguin

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• While I generally find that great myths are great precisely because they represent and embody great universal truths, the myth of romantic love is a dreadful lie. Perhaps it is a necessary lie in that it ensures the survival of the falling-in-love experience that traps us into marriage. But as a psychiatrist I weep in my heart almost daily for the ghastly confusion and suffering that this myth fosters. Millions of people waste vast amounts of energy desperately and futilely attempting to make the reality of their lives conform to the unreality of the myth.

  M. Scott Peck

  Love, Lying, Fall

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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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• In science, there are no universal truths, just views of the world that have yet to be shown to be false.

  Brian Cox

  Views, World, Universal

  Brian Cox (2009). “Why Does E: (and why Should We Care?)”, p.5, Da Capo Press

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• It was a universal truth among males that anytime you saw a guy get it in the nuts, you experienced a shot of phantom pain in your own croquet set. As Lassiter crouched beside the Brother’s pretzel of a body, he was feeling a little nauseous himself, and he took a moment to cup what hung between his legs—just to reassure the boys downstairs that however much of an iconoclast he was, some things were sacred.

  J.R. Ward

  Brother, Pain, Boys

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• A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time.

  William Faulkner

  Bells, Way, Strive

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• Nothing in the Shastra, which is manifestly contrary to universal truths and morals, can stand.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Moral, Contrary

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.125, Hackett Publishing

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• Almost everything that gets called "universal truth" or "common sense" is actually cultural. And too easily twisted into justifications for all kinds of behavior.

  Greg Saunier

  Common Sense, Kind, Twisted

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• Women are exciting for this one reason - it is the secret of women's allure - women enjoy submission, being bound. This I bring out in the Paradise Island sequences where the girls beg for chains and enjoy wearing them. Because all of this is a universal truth, a fundamental subconscious feeling of normal humans, the children love it. That is why they like Wonder Woman on Paradise Island better than anywhere else.

  William Moulton Marston

  Girl, Children, Book

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• There is great worth in holding universal truths and timelessly beautiful words in your heart, which will stay there forever, infusing your thoughts and speech.

  Dan Stevens

  Beautiful, Heart, Forever

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• The management of foreign relations appears to be the most susceptible of abuse of all the trusts committed to a Government, because they can be concealed or disclosed, or disclosed in such parts and at such times as will best suit particular views; and because the body of the people are less capable of judging, and are more under the influence of prejudices, on that branch of their affairs, than of any other. Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

  James Madison

  Real, Home, Loss

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.49, University of Virginia Press

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