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• There are time when friends have said they hooked up with someone and all it means is that they had a highly anticipated kissing session. Other times it's a full-on all-night sex-a-thon. Can't we have a universal understanding of the term, once and for all? From now on, let's all agree that hooking up = sex. Everything else is 'made out.' And if you're older than twenty-eight, then just kissing someone doesn't count for crap and is not even worth mentioning. Unless you're Mormon, in which case you're going to hell.

  Mindy Kaling

  Sex, Mean, Kissing

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• Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mystical of cosmic forces. Love is the primal and universal psychic energy. Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Spiritual, Love Is, Blood

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• We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Believe, Reality, Arms

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• Music is the universal language.

  Swizz Beatz

  Music, Art, Hip Hop

  "10 questions for 'Far East Movement'". Rap-Up Interview, www.rap-up.com. October 12, 2010.

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• Pop Art is industrial painting. I think the meaning of my work is that it is industrial, it's what all the world will soon become. Europe will be the same way, soon, it won't be American; it will be universal.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Art, Thinking, Europe

  Roy Lichtenstein, John Caplans (1968). “Roy Lichtenstein: Exhibition 6 Jan.-4 Feb. 1968, Tate Gallery, London ...”

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• One of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentiously, compounds its partial and universal values most convincingly, and claims immortality for its finite existence at the very moment when the decay which leads to death has already begun.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Civilization, Decay, Moments

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• Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Law, Reason Why, Language

  Ferdinand de Saussure, Wade Baskin (2011). “Course in General Linguistics”, p.77, Columbia University Press

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• There is another peculiar satisfaction in really hearing someone: It is like listening to the music of the spheres, because beyond the immediate message of the person, no matter what that might be, there is the universal. Hidden in all of the personal communications which I really hear there seem to be orderly psychological laws, aspects of the same order we find in the universe as a whole. So there is both the satisfaction of hearing this person and also the satisfaction of feeling one's self in touch with what is universally true.

  Carl Rogers

  Communication, Self, Order

  Carl Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble.

  Simon Baron-Cohen

  Empathy, Problem

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• Empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble. It is effective as a way of anticipating and resolving interpersonal problems, whether this is a marital conflict, an international conflict, a problem at work, difficulties in a friendship, political deadlocks, a family dispute, or a problem with a neighbor.

  Simon Baron-Cohen

  Empathy, Political, Way

  Simon Baron-Cohen (2013). “The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty”, p.186, Basic Books

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• While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first personality, which no one should copy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Artist, Personality, Firsts

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1689, GENERAL PRESS

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• I can't remember one [example of regulation] that's good. Regulation of transport, regulation of agriculture - agriculture is a, zoning is z. You know, you go from a to z, they are all bad. There were so many studies, and the result was quite universal: The effects were bad.

  Ronald Coase

  Agriculture, Regulation, Study

  "Looking for Results". Interview with Thomas Winslow Hazlett, reason.com. January 1997.

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• Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment.

  Nikola Tesla

  Enlightenment, Natural, Consequence

  Nikola Tesla (2016). “My Inventions: And Other Writings”, p.54, Courier Dover Publications

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• For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity.

  Christopher Dawson

  Men, Blood, Common Humanity

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• It is true that Christianity is not bound up with any particular race or culture. It is neither of the East or of the West, but has a universal mission to the human race as a whole

  Christopher Dawson

  Race, East, Culture

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• I am worried by the Blessed Virgin’s messages to Lucy of Fatima. This persistence of Mary about the dangers which menace the Church is a Divine warning against the suicide of altering the Faith, in Her liturgy, Her theology and Her soulI hear all around me innovators who wish to dismantle the Sacred Chapel, destroy the universal flame of the true Faith of the Church, reject Her ornaments and make Her feel remorse for Her historical past.

  Pope Pius XII

  Suicide, Blessed, Persistence

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• The Christian life is not just our own private affair. If we have been born again into God's family, not only has he become our Father but every other Christian believer in the world, whatever his nation or denomination, has become our brother or sister in Christ. But it is no good supposing that membership of the universal Church of Christ is enough; we must belong to some local branch of it. Every Christian's place is in a local church. sharing in its worship, its fellowship, and its witness.

  John Stott

  Christian, Brother, Father

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• The desire for gold is the most universal and deeply rooted commercial instinct of the human race.

  Gerald M. Loeb

  Race, Desire, Gold

  Gerald M. Loeb (2007). “Battle for Investment Survival”, p.102, John Wiley & Sons

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• For in that universal call,
  Few bankers will to heaven be mounters;
  They'll cry, "Ye shops, upon us fall!
  Conceal and cover us, ye counters!
  When other hands the scales shall hold,
  And they, in men's and angels' sight
  Produced with all their bills and gold,
  'Weigh'd in the balance and found light!'

  Jonathan Swift

  Fall, Angel, Men

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1883). “Historical tracts. Political poetry. Poems chiefly relating to Irish politics”

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• Whenever there is a conflict between universal principles and self-interest, self-interest is likely to prevail.

  George Soros

  Self, Principles, Investing

  George Soros (2007). “Open Society Reforming Global Capitalism Reconsidered”, p.17, PublicAffairs

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• If we care about universal principles such as freedom, democracy and the rule of law, we cannot leave them to the care of market forces; we must establish some other institutions to safeguard them.

  George Soros

  Law, Democracy, Principles

  George Soros (2007). “Open Society Reforming Global Capitalism Reconsidered”, p.12, PublicAffairs

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• Christmas has a certain universal appeal that gives it meaning well beyond a day to celebrate the birth of Jesus, but Christians have a special duty to experience its sacred and profound spiritual significance and non-Christians have a duty to treat the day with special respect.

  Michael Josephson

  Christmas, Christian, Spiritual

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• Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and is lending oneself to the universal illusion without becoming its dupe.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Wisdom, Common Sense, Rising

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• I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life.

  Toru Takemitsu

  Writing, Love Is, Men

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• The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of its universal applicability and its thiswordliness.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Rights, World Religions, Language

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