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one must verge on the unknown, write toward the truth hitherto unrecognizable of one’s own sincerity, including the avoidable beauty of doom, shame, and embarrassment, that very area of personal self-recognition,(detailed individual is universal remember) which formal conventions, internalized, keep us from discovering in ourselves and others

Allen Ginsberg

Writing, Self, Recognition

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For there was a conspiracy of dullness in the world, a universal plan to shut out the resurgences of spirit which might interfere with clockwork. Better to keep your elevation unseen until it is higher than strangers' hands can reach to pull you down to their level.

Tennessee Williams

Hands, Unseen, World

Tennessee Williams (1994). “Collected Stories”, p.128, New Directions Publishing

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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.

J.R. Ward

Pain, Nuts, Guy

J.R. Ward (2012). “Lover Reborn: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.149, Penguin

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there is more to this hijab than the whole modesty thing. These girls are strangers to me but I know that we all felt an amazing connection, a sense that this cloth binds us in some kind of universal sisterhood.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

Girl, Sisterhood, Connections

Randa Abdel-Fattah (2014). “Does My Head Look Big in This?”, p.25, Scholastic UK

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...But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.

John Green

Christian, Buddhist, Lying

John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.67, Penguin

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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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Suffering is universal.

John Green

Hipster, Suffering

John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.84, Penguin

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Unless and until we have peace deep within us, we can never hope to have peace in the outer world. You and I create the world by the vibrations that we offer to it. If we can invoke peace and then offer it to somebody else, we will see how peace expands from one to two persons, and gradually to the world at large. Peace will come about in the world from the perfection of individuals. If you have peace, I have peace, he has peace, and she has peace, then automatically universal peace will dawn.

Sri Chinmoy

Two, Perfection, Dawn

Sri Chinmoy (1997). “The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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Contempt, thought Tyrion, the universal tongue.

George R. R. Martin

Tongue, Contempt, Tyrion

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- I'm so busy doing what I must do that I don't have time for what I ought to do... and I never get a chance to do what I want to do! - Son, that's universal. The way to keep that recipe from killing you is occasionally to do what you want to do anyhow.

Robert A. Heinlein

Son, Recipes, Want

Robert A. Heinlein (2005). “Citizen of the Galaxy”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

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Even without the mushroom cloud still I would have hated Listen I would have done the same things even if there were no death I will not be held like a drunkard under the cold tap of facts I refuse the universal alibi

Leonard Cohen

Mushrooms, Clouds, Done

Leonard Cohen (2010). “Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs”, p.48, Random House

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All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call. Just as cinematic images appear to be real but are only combinations of light and shade, so is the universal variety a delusion. The planetary spheres, with their countless forms of life, are naught but figures in a cosmic motion picture. One's values are profoundly changed when he is finally convinced that creation is only a vast motion picture and that not in, but beyond, lies his own ultimate reality.

George Harrison

Real, Lying, Light

"Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead". Book by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, 1970.

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To Epictetus, all external events are determined by fate, and are thus beyond our control, but we can accept whatever happens calmly and dispassionately. Individuals, however, are responsible for their own actions which they can examine and control through rigorous self-discipline. Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power. As part of the universal city that is the universe, human beings have a duty of care to all fellow humans. The person who followed these precepts would achieve happiness.

Epictetus

Fate, Self, Cities

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His scowl returned. "Why, if they're supposed to be Greek, are all of them speaking with an English accent?" She laughed. "Didn't you know that British is, like, the universal 'foreign' language in Hollywood? They use it in any movie where they want to have a foreign feel to it, regardless of where it's set

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Greek, Hollywood, Use

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Of all the universal lies she accepted unquestioningly, the happy ending was the most absurd. The hero and heroine lived happily ever after, and the ending seemed indisputable, definitive. No questions asked about how long love or happiness lasts in that 'forever' that can be divided into lifetimes, years, months. Even days

Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Lying, Hero, Years

Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1996). “The Club Dumas”, Harcourt

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There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning.

Hunter S. Thompson

Winning, Vegas, Fear And Loathing

Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.93, Pan Macmillan

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Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns in to universal, rather than religion-specific, values... it requires that their proposals be subject to argument and amenable to reason. Now I may be opposed to abortion for religious reasons, to take one example, but if I seek to pass a law banning the practice, I cannot simply point to the teachings of my church or evoke God's will. I have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths, including those with no faith at all.

Barack Obama

Religious, Teaching, Law

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I believed in happily ever after as much as anyone, because Jane Austen, Prince Charming, and Hugh Grant promised me it could happen. But maybe that particular delusion was universal.

Robin Wasserman

Ever After, Charming, Delusion

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We preach and practice brotherhood — not only of man but of all living beings — not on Sundays only but on all the days of the week. We believe in the law of universal justice — that our present condition is the result of our past actions and that we are not subjected to the freaks of an irresponsible governor, who is prosecutor and judge at the same time; we depend for our salvation on our own acts and deeds and not on the sacrificial death of an attorney.

Virchand Gandhi

Believe, Sunday, Men

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Eating, drinking, dying - three primary manifestations of the universal and impersonal life. Animals live that impersonal and universal life without knowing its nature. Ordinary people know its nature but don't live it and, if they think seriously about it, refuse to accept it. An enlightened person knows it, lives it, and accepts it completely. He eats, he drinks, and in due course he dies - but he eats with a difference, drinks with a difference, dies with a difference.

Aldous Huxley

Drinking, Animal, Thinking

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It all looks American because America, the country that invented mass capitalism and consumerism, got there first. the impact of mass capitalism is now universal.

Fareed Zakaria

Country, Impact, America

Fareed Zakaria (2009). “The Post-American World: And The Rise Of The Rest”, p.97, Penguin UK

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If someone smells a flower and says he does not understand, the reply to him is: there is nothing to understand, it is only a scent. If he persists, saying: that I know, but what does it all mean? Then one has either to change the subject, or make it more abstruse by saying that the scent is the shape which the universal joy takes in the flower.

Rabindranath Tagore

Flower, Mean, Smell

Rabindranath Tagore (2010). “My Life In My Words”, p.10, Penguin UK

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There is a universal respect and even admiration for those who are humble and simple by nature, and who have absolute confidence in all human beings irrespective of their social status.

Nelson Mandela

Humble, Humility, Simple

Nelson Mandela (2011). “Conversations With Myself”, p.313, Pan Macmillan

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One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthier of sharing this planet with them.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Animal, Soul, One Day

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Spiritual emptiness is a universal disease.

Rick Warren

God, Spiritual, Soul

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