Universal Quotes - Page 29

• No totalitarian authority nor authoritarian state can tolerate those who have an absolute by which to judge that state and its actions. The Christians had that absolute in God's revelation.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Rome, Judging

  "How should we then live?: the rise and decline of western thought and culture".

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• There was almost a universal acceptance of unhealthy conditions. Sulfur dioxide in smokestack emissions were the price, or smell, of prosperity.

  Denis Hayes

  Acceptance, Smell, Sulfur

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• There is nothing more beautiful in the world, enough to lose one's head. A sunset with a long nose, a starry sky that lies, a river searching for its father, a beautiful blue forest. It makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it's very mean, generous, magical, universal, a picture of freedom, of unrestrained desire to live, of pain and joy - a joy so powerful and sweet that it restores the souls in every spot on earth. The story of Pinocchio - nothing more beautiful in the world.

  Roberto Benigni

  Beautiful, Sweet, Pain

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• Is the human race a universal constructor?

  David Deutsch

  Race, Humans, Human Race

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• There' something about universal truths with the simplicity of the acoustic guitar. You can take it anywhere and it helps me reach listeners of all ages and walks of life.

  Jim Croce

  Guitar, Simplicity, Age

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• I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but it's plausible that it is.

  Seth Lloyd

  Digital, Facts, Computer

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• There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Reality

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.8, Rodale

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• I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.

  Norman Spinrad

  Believe, Hero, Firefighter

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• A crisis of confidence is so common that it should be considered a universal part of the adoption process.

  Patricia McConnell

  Adoption, Common, Process

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• As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love

  Ruth St. Denis

  Understanding, And Love, Denial

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• I haven't really been recording in the last several years. I haven't wanted to. And even though I had to deal with Sony and now I'm on Universal again, I will probably put out a new record soon.

  Donna Summer

  Years, Records, Lasts

  "Donna Summer: 'Then I sought help'". Interview with Soledad O'Brien, www.cnn.com. October 22, 2003.

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• Heaven's harmony is universal love.

  William Cowper

  Religious, Heaven, Universal Love

  William Cowper, John William Cunningham (1835). “The works ¬of William Cowper: Poems : with an essay on the genius and poetry of Cowper”, p.31

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• Where this age differs from those immediately preceding it is that a liberal intelligentsia is lacking. Bully-worship, under various disguises, has become a universal religion, and such truisms as that a machine-gun is still a machine-gun even when a "good" man is squeezing the trigger have turned into heresies which it is actually becoming dangerous to utter.

  George Orwell

  Gun, Men, Bully

  George Orwell, Sonia Orwell, Ian Angus (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: An age like this, 1920-1940”, Harvill Secker

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• The love of indolence is universal, or next to it.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Laziness, Next, Indolence

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge: In Two Volumes”, p.190

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• While once it was the rank and file that cheered with all the partisan passions at their heights, today it is the party leaders who are cheering themselves; and all by themselves. The mob that is their audience is in one vast universal trance, thinking about something else.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Leadership, Cheer, Party

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• Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, Life, Religion

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• The quest for this unwearied peace is constant and universal. Probe deeply into the teaching of Buddha, Maimonides, or a Kempis, and you will discover that they base their diverse doctrines on the foundation of a large spiritual serenity. Analyze the prayers of troubled, overborne mankind of all creeds, in every age-and their petitions come down to the irreducible common denominators of daily bread and inward peace. Grown men do not pray for vain trifles. When they lift up their hearts and voices in the valley of tears they ask for strength and courage and understanding.

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Spiritual, Peace, Prayer

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• Movement is the universal language of personal freedom.

  Louis Chevrolet

  Movement, Language, Personal Freedom

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• Mysticism—Magic and Yoga—is the means, therefore, to a new universal life, richer, greater and more full of resource than ever before, as free as sunlight, as gracious as the unfolding of a rose. It is for man (and woman) to take.

  Israel Regardie

  Yoga, Mean, Men

  Israel Regardie (1972). “The Tree of Life: A Study in Magic”, p.34, Weiser Books

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• We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are a part of the universe, and are connected with each other to form one whole unity. This idea helps the mind of the child to become fixed, to stop wandering in an aimless quest for knowledge. He is satisfied, having found the universal centre of himself with all things.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Ideas, Unity

  Maria Montessori (2015). “To Educate the Human Potential”, p.6, Ravenio Books

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• Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is
  par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Order, Excellence

  MARIA MONTESSORI “HER LIFE AND WORK”

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• The needs of mankind are universal. Our means of meeting them create the richness and diversity of the planet. The Montessori child should come to relish the texture of that diversity.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Mean, Diversity

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• The Holy Grail of universal coverage in the United States may remain out of reach unless, through rational collective action overriding some individual self-interest, we can reduce per capita costs.

  Donald Berwick

  Self, Holy Grail, United States

  "The Triple Aim: Care, Health, And Cost" by Donald Berwick, Thomas W. Nolan and John Whittington in "Health Affairs", Volume 27, No. 3 (pp. 759-769), May/June 2008.

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• I was forced, through seeing the error of their foundation, to abandon all belief in every religion which had been taught to man. But my religious feelings were immediately replaced by the spirit of universal charity — not for a sect, or a party, or for a country or a colour — but for the human race, and with a real and ardent desire to do good.

  Robert Owen

  Country, Religious, Real

  Robert Owen (1857). “The Life of Robert Owen Written by Himself: With Selections from His Writings and Correspondence”, p.16

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• I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all the particulars there are, the deepening of each particular, the coexistence of them all.

  Aime Cesaire

  Different Ideas, Rich, Coexist

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