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• To the mind which looks not to general results in the economy of Nature, the earth may seem to present a scene of perpetual warfare, and incessant carnage: but the more enlarged view, while it regards individuals in their conjoint relations to the general benefit of their own species, and that of other species with which they are associated in the great family of Nature, resolves each apparent case of individual evil, into an example of subserviency to universal good.

  William Buckland

  Life, Nature, Science

  William Buckland (2003). “The Evolution Debate, 1813-1870: Geology and Mineralogy, Considered with Reference to Natural Theology”, p.112, Psychology Press

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• The great problem of today is, how to subject all physical phenomena to dynamical laws. With all the experimental devices, and all the mathematical appliances of this generation, the human mind has been baffled in its attempts to construct a universal science of physics.

  Joseph Lovering

  Science, Law, Mind

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• There is, however, no universal recipe for scientific advance. It is a matter of groping forward into terra incognita of the outer world by means of methods which should be adapted to the circumstances.

  Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

  Mean, Science, Research

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• ...We then examine a particular coding system in DNA and discover that UI [universal information] is conveyed within the genes. Using this DNA evidence and scientific laws governing UI as premises, we are able to develop sound, logical deductions. This leads us to the following conclusion: the God of the Bible exists and He is responsible for originating and embedding Universal Information into biological life.

  Werner Gitt

  Dna, Law, Atheism

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• I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating, but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us. Perhaps we shall have to colonise the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.

  R. J. Hollingdale

  Death, Stars, Science

  "RJ Hollingdale" by Carol Diethe, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2001.

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• The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing playthings; he is less duped than his neighbor by his own nature. He judges more sanely, he sees things as they are. It is in this that his liberty consists - in the ability to see clearly and soberly, in the power of mental record.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Men

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• Reason is universal because no attempted challenge to its results can avoid appealing to reason in the end-by claiming, for example, that what was presented as an argument is really a rationalization. This can undermine our confidence in the original method or practice only by giving us reasons to believe something else, so that finally we have to think about the arguments to make up our minds.

  Thomas Nagel

  Believe, Philosophical, Thinking

  Thomas Nagel (1995). “Other Minds: Critical Essays 1969-1994”, p.213, Oxford University Press

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• The central idea of the Eastern Fathers was that of theosis, the divinization of all creatures, the transfiguration of the world, the idea of the cosmos and not the idea of personal salvation...Only later Christian consciousness began to value the idea of hell more than the idea of the transfiguration and divinization of the world...The Kingdom of God is the transfiguration of the world, the universal resurrection, a new heaven and a new earth.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Christian, Spiritual, Father

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• Strength is a capacity for endurance. One of the dividends of suffering is the universal discovery the we posses a strength within us we never knew we had. Navigating through a difficult episode not only shows us that inner strength is there but convinces us it will always be there to serve us in the future. Overcoming gives us an assurance of personal confidence and value that far exceeds what we thought we possessed before our struggles began.

  Dennis Wholey

  Spiritual, Struggle, Discovery

  Dennis Wholey (1992). “When the worst that can happen already has: conquering life's most difficult times”, Hyperion Books

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• I believe that from that Earth emerges a musical poetry, which is by the nature of its sources tonal. I believe that these sources cause to exist a phonology of music, which evolves from the universal known as the harmonic series.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Inspiration, Believe, Musical

  "The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard".

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• ... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases of mankind, whether imaginary or real. You will not find in semantics any remedy for decayed teeth or illusions of grandeur or class conflict. Nor is semantics a device for establishing that everyone except the speaker and his friends is speaking nonsense

  Alfred Tarski

  Real, Illusions Of Grandeur, Class

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• But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.

  Horace Mann

  Ignorance, Men, Ignorant

  Horace Mann (1867). “Life and Works of Horace Mann”, p.320

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• Historically whoever advocates truth always suffers. I am just a fighter for the truth. Our truths are universal

  Merve Kavakc?

  Wisdom, Islamic, Suffering

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• That higher awakening is called God-consciousness. In that condition, you will see that all the objects of the world are your own universal self.

  Krishnananda Saraswati

  Self, World, Awakening

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• We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Wise, Animal

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.160, Harvard University Press

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• That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Death, Dying, Benefits

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• Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter.

  Zhuangzi

  Great Knowledge, Small Words, Chatter

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• Let's start therefore with a universal truth: leaders are fundamentally accountable.

  Peter Cosgrove

  Leadership, Leader, Universal Truth

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• I have always felt that the great lottery of life is unfair. The fact is that I was thrown up on the stage of life called Australia. You don't choose where you are thrown on to this stage. So universal health, universal education, of course plenty of food and clean water.

  Tim Costello

  Leadership, Australia, Water

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• From the aspect of energy, renewed by radio-active phenomena, material corpuscles may now be treated as transient reservoirs of concentrated power. Though never found in a state of purity, but always more or less granulated (even in light) energy nowadays represents for science the most primitive form of universal stuff.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Science, Light, May

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• This is the chief thing: be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Destiny, Chiefs, All Things

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.44, Lulu.com

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• The local church is the outcrop of the church universal.

  Peter Forsyth

  Church, Locals, Local Church

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• Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity.

  Martin Buber

  Ethics, Moral, Currents

  Martin Buber (2013). “I and Thou”, p.89, eBookIt.com

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• I believe that pity is a law like justice, and that kindness is a duty like uprightness. That which is weak has a right to the kindness and pity of that which is strong. In the relations of man with the animals...there is a great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to humans ethics. Are there not here unsounded depths for the thinker? Is one to think oneself mad because one has the sentiment of universal pity in one's heart?

  Victor Hugo

  Strong, Kindness, Believe

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• Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

  Adolf Hitler

  Education, School, Rise To Power

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