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• Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way. Universal suffrage on a common voters' roll in a united, democratic and non-racial South Africa is the only way to peace and racial harmony.

  Nelson Mandela

  Voters, Way, Common

  Rally Address Following Release From Pollsmoor Prison, delivered 11 February 1990, Cape Town, South Africa

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• True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, national origin or any other identity attribute.

  Desmond Tutu

  Commitment, Rights, Ethnicity

  "Divesting From Injustice" by Desmond Tutu, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2010.

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• The universe itself is God and the universal outpouring of its soul.

  Chrysippus

  Soul, Universe

  "De Natura Deorum" by Cicero (i. 15),

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• Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty.

  James Q. Wilson

  Inspirational, Self, People

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• Charity is ... a universal remedy against discord, and an holy cement for mankind.

  William Penn

  Charity, Holy, Mankind

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.198

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• A technique can only work if it is in harmony with universal principles. Such principles need to be grasped through Mind, pure consciousness. Selfish desires thwart your progress, but Mind, not captivated by notions of victory or defeat, will liberate you. Mind fixes your senses and keeps you centered. Mind is the key to wondrous power and supreme clarity.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Selfish, Keys, Track

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.103, Shambhala Publications

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• The time for universal praise is sure to come some day. Let us begin to do our part now.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Christian, Christian Inspirational, Praise

  Hannah Whitall Smith (2011). “God of All Comfort”, p.252, Anamchara Books

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• Oneness is the perfect expansion
  Of our inner reality.
  Let our hearts oneness only increase
  To make us feel
  That we belong to a universal world ? family,
  And this world ? family
  Is a fulfilled Dream of God.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Dream, Heart, Reality

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• I believe faith is a human universal. We are endowed at birth with nascent capacities for faith. How these capacities are activated and grow depends to a large extent on how we are welcomed into the world and what kinds of environments we grow in. Faith is interactive and social; it requires community, language, ritual and nurture. Faith is also shaped by initiatives from beyond us and other people, initiatives of spirit or grace. How these latter initiatives are recognized and imaged, or unperceived and ignored, powerfully affects the shape of faith in our lives.

  James W. Fowler

  Faith, Believe, People

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• God tells me that
  My happy heart
  Increases the beauty
  Of His universal Heart.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Heart, Increase, Happy Heart

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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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• 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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• I was never the sort of child who believed in "monsters under the bed" or vampires, or who needed a night-light in his bedroom; on the contrary, my father...once laughingly told my mother that he thought I might suffer from a type of benign psychosis called "antiparanoia," in which I seemed to believe that I was the object of an intricate universal conspiracy to make me so happy I could hardly stand it.

  David Foster Wallace

  Mother, Children, Father

  "All That" by David Foster Wallace, www.newyorker.com. December 14, 2009.

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• The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.

  Kenneth R. Miller

  Music, Mean, Air

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• Isn't food important? Why not "universal food coverage"? If politicians and employers had guaranteed us "free" food 50 years ago, today Democrats would be wailing about the "food crisis" in America, and you'd be on the phone with your food care provider arguing about whether or not a Reuben sandwich with fries was covered under your plan.

  Ann Coulter

  Phones, Years, America

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• A person is quite different from a tree or rock or stream. By introducing the nude into my pictures, I started perceiving all the things I was photographing in new ways. In contrast or opposition to each other, things became much more significant and interesting, revealing many more qualities than I had ever dreamed of knowing and expressing. By using the nude, I stopped thinking in terms of objects.

  Wynn Bullock

  Photography, Unique, Thinking

  "Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning".

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• It is so basic. A human being is an innocent part of nature. Our civilization has distorted this universal quality that allows us to feel at home in our skin. Other animals have coats that they accept, but the human race has yet to come to terms with being nude.

  Ruth Bernhard

  Home, Animal, Race

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• When consciousness has no thoughts in it, one can experience spirit and live in harmony with the universal forces.

  Alan Finger

  Yoga, Spirit, Consciousness

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• The problems we face today, violent conflicts, destruction of nature, poverty, hunger, and so on, are human-created problems which can be resolved through human effort, understanding and the development of a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood. We need to cultivate a universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share.

  Dalai Lama

  God, Peace, Responsibility

  The 14th Dalai Lama's Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1989.

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• We are reviewing our experience to enable us to respond to the cultural challenge: to help countries, communities and individuals interpret universal principles, translate them into culturally sensitive terms and design programmes based on them, programmes that people can really feel are their own.

  Thoraya Obaid

  Country, People, Design

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• The challenge for UNFPA is to help countries as we always have with no agenda of our own; with sensitivity towards unique cultural values; with an infinite willingness to work with whatever is positive; and with a determination to help countries and people turn universal principles into concrete action.

  Thoraya Obaid

  Country, Determination, Unique

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• I believe that to meet the challenge of our times, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. We must all learn to work not just for our own self, family, or nation but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace, the equitable use of natural resources, and through concern for future generations, the proper care of the environment.

  Dalai Lama

  Believe, Responsibility, Helping Others

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• Each individual has a universal responsibility to shape institutions to serve human needs.

  Dalai Lama

  Hero, Responsibility, Needs

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• We live at the threshold of a universal recognition that the human being is not mere matter, but a potent, energetic field of consciousness. Modalities of the past millennium are quickly giving way to breakthrough technologies wherein we heal ourselves at the level of all true healing, which is spirit.

  Michael Beckwith

  Healing, Past, Technology

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• This special feeling towards fruit, its glory and abundance, is I would say universal.... We respond to strawberry fields or cherry orchards with a delight that a cabbage patch or even an elegant vegetable garden cannot provoke.

  Jane Grigson

  Food, Garden, Vegetables

  Jane Grigson (2007). “Jane Grigson's Fruit Book”, p.27, U of Nebraska Press

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