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• In my life I have had to work through problems of stigmatization and prejudice. When I discovered the power of the arts to express my pains and joys, it became clear to me that there would be no other way to work through the demons except to fully embrace the process of creation. The work was not personal therapy but had a connection to other peoples' realities. As I grow older and more mature, it becomes clearer to me that personal struggles and conflicts are connected with universal struggles and conflicts. It is this knowledge, ironically, that gives me the freedom to experiment in my work

  Reza Abdoh

  Art, Pain, Struggle

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• Great leadership isn’t shaped in the absence of opposition but in the presence of it. Great leaders draw us together by our universal humanity; they galvanize the wills of the willing; they draw clarity from the spigot of chaos.

  Charles M. Blow

  Leader, Humanity, Together

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• A picture can express a universal humanism, or simply reveal a delicate and poignant truth by exposing a slice of life that might otherwise pass unnoticed.

  Steve McCurry

  Might, Poignant, Unnoticed

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• Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.

  Lawren Harris

  Life, Art, Long

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• I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody.

  Mara Brock Akil

  Writing, Black, Humans

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• Because powerful images are fixed in the mind more readily than words, the photographer needs no interpreter. A photograph means the same thing all over the world and no translator is required. Photography is truly a universal language, transcending all boundaries of race, politics and nationality.

  Arthur Rothstein

  Photography, Powerful, Mean

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• The magic of fiction seems to be the more specific you are, the more universal you end up becoming.

  Shyam Selvadurai

  Magic, Fiction, Becoming

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• Hoping to see karate included in the universal physical education taught in our public schools, I set about revising the kata so as to make them as simple as possible. Times change, the world changes, and obviously the martial arts must change too. The karate that high school students practice today is not the same karate that was practiced even as recently as ten years ago [this book was written in 1956], and it is a long way indeed from the karate I learned when I was a child in Okinawa.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Art, Children, Book

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• Sometimes I would write something that was so private, people would say, 'Make it more universal.' I never liked that idea. I always thought the more personal a song was, the more people would want to hear it.

  Jane Wiedlin

  Song, Writing, Ideas

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• The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we will be able to appreciate what he did. It will not age! It will not become dated!

  John Astin

  Appreciate, Long, Age

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor just like you like to be liked yourself.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Political, Like You

  "In America; Political Tongue Twisters" by Bob Herbert, www.nytimes.com. August 28, 2000.

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• Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality

  Gilles Deleuze

  Fiction, Levels, States

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• The world can therefore seize the opportunity (the Persian Gulf crisis) to fulfill the long held promise of a New World Order where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind.

  George H. W. Bush

  Opportunity, Order, Nwo

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• Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Art, Men, Universal Life

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “WHAT IS ART? & WHEREIN IS TRUTH IN ART? (Meditations on Aesthetics & Literature): On the Significance of Science and Art, Shakespeare and the Drama, The Works of Guy De Maupassant, A. Stockham'sTokology, Amiel's Diary, S. T. Seménov's Peasant Stories, Stop and Think!...”, p.50, e-artnow

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• The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line.

  Piet Mondrian

  Essence, Lines, Painting

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• There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond territory, it is something we all have in common

  Ted Koppel

  Special, Territory, Common

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• It seems to me, thinking of it, that there must be some universal plan which set in motion the orbiting of the electrons about the nucleus and the slower, more majestic orbit of the galaxies about one another to the very edge of space

  Clifford D. Simak

  Thinking, Space, Orbit

  Clifford D. Simak (2015). “A Choice of Gods”, p.101, Open Road Media

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• I have tried at times to place humans in perspective against the vastness of universal time and space. I have been concerned with where we, as a race, may be going and what may be our purpose in the universal scheme — if we have a purpose. In general, I believe we do, and perhaps an important one.

  Clifford D. Simak

  Believe, Race, Space

  The Associated Press obituary, April 27, 1988.

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• There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of LACK OF AMBITION!

  Napoleon Hill

  Ambition, People, Weakness

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.71, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• You keep thinking that with practice you will eventually get the knack of enjoying superficial encounters, that you will stop looking for the universal solvent, stop grieving. You will learn to compound happiness out of small increments of mindless pleasure.

  Jay McInerney

  Thinking, Grieving, Practice

  Jay McInerney (2011). “Bright Lights, Big City”, p.52, Vintage

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• The universal view melts things into a blur.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Views, Blur

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• In this country there is a universal third person, the man we all want to be. Advertising has discovered this man. It uses him to express the possibilities open to the consumer. To consume in America is not to buy; it is to dream. Advertising is the suggestion that the dream of entering the third person singular might possibly be fulfilled.

  Don DeLillo

  Dream, Country, Men

  Don DeLillo (1989). “Americana”, p.189, Penguin

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• For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal.

  James Joyce

  Writing, Heart, Cities

  James Joyce (2016). “Stephen Hero & A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Two Autobiographical Novels): Including Biography of the Author”, p.386, e-artnow

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• In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a man, and I cry to all: “Help me!

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Suffering, Trying

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.3568, Delphi Classics

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• Keep searchin’ for your mystery note on the universal piano of life.

  Rahsaan Roland Kirk

  Piano, Mystery, Notes

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