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• Truth is naturally universal...and shines into many different windows, though many are clouded.

  Anya Seton

  Shining, Different, Window

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• The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.

  Bruce Lee

  Real, Thought Provoking, Doe

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.376, Tuttle Publishing

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• Music is truly the universal language, and when it is excellently expressed how deeply it moves our souls

  David O. McKay

  Music, Moving, Soul

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• You are reading a bold and universal headline which says ,’I am here, I am here, I am here.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Reading, Here I Am, Headlines

  Kurt Vonnegut (2010). “Breakfast Of Champions”, p.226, Random House

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• I have the satisfaction of knowing that it is all right; that everybody else is one way or other served in much the same way--either in a physical or metaphysical point of view, that is; and so the universal thump is passed round, and all hands should rub each other's shoulder-blades, and be content.

  Herman Melville

  Views, Hands, Knowing

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale”, p.25, Cosimo, Inc.

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• No matter who we are, no matter what our circumstances, our feelings and emotions are universal. And music has always been a great way to make people aware of that connection. It can help you open up a part of yourself and express feelings you didn't know you were feeling. It's risky to let that happen. But it's a risk you have to take-because only then will you find you're not alone.

  Josh Groban

  People, Feelings, Risk

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• I turn to right and left, in all the earth I see no signs of justice, sense or worth: A man does evil deeds, and all his days Are filled with luck and universal praise; Another's good in all he does - he dies A wretched, broken man whom all despise.

  Abolqasem Ferdowsi

  Men, Evil, Broken

  Abolqasem Ferdowsi (2006). “Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings”, p.289, Penguin

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• Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,--all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faith, Nature, Mean

  Nature, rev. ed., ch. 1 (1849)

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• A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age ... pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. They don't want to be who they are any more. They want out. This list includes Thurston Howell the Third, Ann-Margret, the cat members of Rent, Václav Havel, space shuttle astronauts and Snuffleupagus. It's universal.

  Douglas Coupland

  Dream, Cat, Past

  Douglas Coupland (2011). “The Gum Thief: A Novel”, p.1, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. "Book love," Trollope called it. "It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live." Yet of all the many things in which we recognize some universal comfort...reading seems to be the one in which the comfort is most undersung.

  Anna Quindlen

  Book, Reading, Home

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• The question occurred to me: Well, if that's so, if the Divine is ultimately formless and genderless, what's the big deal? Why all this bother? The bother is because we have no other way of speaking about the Absolute. We need forms and images. Without them we have no way of relating to the Divine. Symbol and image create a universal spiritual language. It's the language the soul understands.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Spiritual, Soul, Needs

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• Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.

  Aldous Huxley

  Happiness, Brave New World, Joy

  Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

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• There seemed to be a mystifying universal conspiracy among textbook authors to make certain the material they dealt with never strayed too near the realm of the mildly interesting and was always at least a long-distance phone call from the frankly interesting.

  Bill Bryson

  Distance, Phones, Long

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.6, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language - not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Book, Taken

  "Emerson: The Mind on Fire" by Robert D. Richardson, University of California Press, (p. 155), March 6, 1995.

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• God is universal," spluttered the priest. The imam nodded strong approval. "There is only one God." "And with their one god Muslims are always causing troubles and provoking riots. The proof of how bad Islam is, is how uncivilized Muslims are,: pronounced the pandit. "Says the slave-driver of the cast system," huffed the imam. "Hindus enslave people and worship dressed-up dolls." "They are golden calf lovers. They kneel before the cows," the priest chimed in. "While Christians kneel before a white man! They are flunkies of a foreign god. They are nightmare of all nonwhite people.

  Yann Martel

  Christian, Strong, Men

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.75, Vintage Canada

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• Numbers constitute the only universal language.

  Nathanael West

  Communication, Math, Numbers

  1933 Miss Lonely hearts.

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• I am going to give you a piece of advice... advice I wish I'd been told in guidance class back in high school, in between the don't-do-acid and don't-drink-and-drive films. I wish our counselors had told us, 'When you grow older a dreadful, horrible sensation will come over you. It's called loneliness, and you think you know what it is now, but you don't. Here is the list of the symptoms, and don't worry—loneliness is the most universal sensation on the planet. Just remember one fact—loneliness will pass. You will survive and you will be a better human for it.

  Douglas Coupland

  Loneliness, School, Thinking

  Douglas Coupland (1993). “Shampoo Planet”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blasphemous and demoralizing subject. Christmas is forced on a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press: on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred; and anyone who looked back to it would be turned into a pillar of greasy sausages.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sorry, Lying, Hatred

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• There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.

  Joseph Conrad

  Intellectual, Misery, Moral

  Joseph Conrad (2013). “Nostromo”, p.274, Courier Corporation

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• And then there is the universal role of adult. When you play that role, you take yourself and life very seriously. Spontaneity, lightheartedness, and joy are not part of that role.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Play, Joy

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.67, Penguin

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• No matter who we are, no matter what our circumstances, our feelings and emotions are universal.

  Josh Groban

  Feelings, Who We Are, Matter

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• The irresistible proliferation of graphomania shows me that everyone without exception bears a potential writer within him, so that the entire human species has good reason to go down into the streets and shout: we are all writers! for everyone is pained by the thought of disappearing, unheard and unseen, into an indifferent universe, and because of that everyone wants, while there is still time, to turn himself into a universe of words. one morning (and it will be soon), when everyone wakes up as a writer, the age of universal deafness and incomprehension will have arrived.

  Milan Kundera

  Morning, Age, Unseen

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• Whether or not we continue to enforce a universal conception of human rights at moments of outrage and incomprehension, precisely when we think that others have taken themselves out of the human community as we know it, is a test of our very humanity.

  Judith Butler

  Taken, Thinking, Rights

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• That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Lonely, Book, Reading

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• Any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being evil.

  Dan Simmons

  Evil, Deities, Innocent

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.358, Spectra

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