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• Today the universal common good poses problems of world-wide dimensions, which cannot be adequately tackled or solved except by the efforts of public authorities endowed with a wideness of powers, structure and means of the same proportions; that is... on a world-wide basis.

  Pope John XXIII

  Mean, Effort, Today

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• History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life of kings for itself, as an instrument for the accomplishment of its own ends.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Kings, Accomplishment, Humanity

  Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy (2010). “War and Peace Vol. 3 & 4”, Wildside Press LLC

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• The law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code; it contained many statutes . . . of universal application-laws essential to the existence of men in society, and most of which have been enacted by every nation which ever professed any code of laws.

  John Quincy Adams

  Religious, Men, Law

  John Quincy Adams (1848). “Letters of John Quincy Adams, to His Son, on the Bible and Its Teachings”, p.61

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• Realising the healthy international relations can be created only among populations made up of individuals who themselves are healthy and enjoy a measure a independence, the United Nations elaborated a Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly on December 10, 1948.

  Albert Einstein

  Rights, Healthy, Independence

  Albert Einstein (1995). “Ideas and Opinions”, Three Rivers Press

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• No government is lawful or innocent that does not recognize the moral law as the only universal law, and God as the Supreme Lawgiver and Judge, to whom nations in their national capacity, as well as individuals, are amenable.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Government, Law, Judging

  Charles Grandison Finney (1846). “Lectures on Systematic Theology: Embracing Lectures on Moral Government, Together with Atonement, Moral and Physical Depravity, Regeneration, Philosophical Theories, and Evidences of Regeneration”, p.435

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• The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of these United States are covenants we have made not only with ourselves, but with all mankind. Our founding documents proclaim to the world that freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few. It is the universal right of all God's children.

  Ronald Reagan

  Freedom, Children, Independence

  Ronald Reagan (1998). “A Shining City: The Legacy of Ronald Reagan”

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• A universal peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary philosophers, or in the breasts of benevolent enthusiasts.

  James Madison

  Imagination, Events, Visionaries

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all men are free; they are citizens of the universal commonwealth which embraces all the world, brethren of one family, and children of God.

  Lord Acton

  Children, Men, Greek

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.46, Jazzybee Verlag

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• When you offer a vibration, the Universal forces are working in concert with each other in order to satisfy you. You really are the center of the Universe.

  Esther Hicks

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Work

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• Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information.

  Thomas Paine

  Mean, Information, Language

  Thomas Paine (2016). “The Writings of Thomas Paine: The Age of Reason”, p.86, Thomas Paine

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• Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel -movement through space -provided the universal metaphor for change. One of the subtle confusions -perhaps one of the secret terrors -of modern life is that we have lost this refuge. No longer do we move through space as we once did.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Life, Change, Travel

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• If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Pain, Bereavement

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.25, Faber & Faber

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• It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States; and as they would be the sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please . . . . Certainly no such universal power was meant to be given them. It [the Constitution] was intended to lace them up straightly within the enumerated powers and those without which, as means, these powers could not be carried into effect.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mean, Evil, Judging

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• [W]here there is no law, there is no liberty; and nothing deserves the name of law but that which is certain and universal in its operation upon all the members of the community.

  Benjamin Rush

  Law, Names, Community

  Benjamin Rush (1951). “Letters”

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• If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Men, Effort, Ambitious

  Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1857). “The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe”, p.508

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• By the power invested in me by the state of New York and the Universal Life Church, I now pronounce you husband and husband. You can kiss the groom.

  Conan O'Brien

  New York, Husband, Kissing

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• However, the small probability of a similar encounter [of the earth with a comet], can become very great in adding up over a huge sequence of centuries. It is easy to picture to oneself the effects of this impact upon the Earth. The axis and the motion of rotation changed; the seas abandoning their old position to throw themselves toward the new equator; a large part of men and animals drowned in this universal deluge, or destroyed by the violent tremor imparted to the terrestrial globe.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Science, Animal, Men

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• Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Power, Joy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2631, Delphi Classics

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• People just didn't write songs that were so directly emotional in those days. They still don't. Part of Hank's [Williams] thing was that he was opening up about relationships between men and women in ways that nobody else did, and I think that's something that made him stand out so much. His songs are just so straightforward about these really deep feelings that are universal, but they're so hard to write about without sounding sappy or over the top. You think of men in that era - they didn't express themselves that way.

  Michael McCaul

  Song, Writing, Men

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• Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal.

  Dave Eggers

  Writing, Stories, Remember

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• When working with the Universal Laws you are working with the laws of manifestation, not instant gratification.

  Jennifer O'Neill

  Law Of Attraction, Instant Gratification, Manifestation

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• Pessimists see problems as stemming from stable and universal causes, thus making them less susceptible to corrective action. Optimists, in contrast, view problems as temporary and resulting from specific factors that will either change or be changed.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Views, Optimism, Causes

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• Let all beings in all the worlds be happy. Include this universal prayer in your prayers every day. This is my birthday message to you.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Birthday, Prayer, World

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• If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage the thirst for blood, the path of destruction must lead to universal annihilation.

  Albert Camus

  Nature, Real, Blood

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.44, Vintage

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• Without doubt, God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. God directs angels, men, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature: and man having been created free, he is led freely.

  Joseph de Maistre

  God, Nature, Moving

  "The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion and Enlightenment".

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