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“I honestly believe, and I've said it many times, that the universal stems from the specific and I can't walk around with a performance and ask everyone how they feel about it, but if noble is an opinion that people have I'll accept that. I've been asked many times why I don't play bad guys, or heavies, and I would do it, absolutely, in a second, just haven't been offered any so... if anybody has a script out there tonight I'm more than willing.”

People Ifs Feels Believe Said I Can Play Guy Asks Walks Accepting Opinion Havens Willing Performances Universal Scripts Noble Honestly Tonight Stem Bad Guys

Author:Denzel Washington

“The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis.”

Certain Accepting Atheism Danger Degrees Tasks Universal Positive Atheism Believer Protected Affliction Neurotic Neurosis True Believer

Author:Sigmund Freud

“the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.”

Purpose Accepting Periods Comfortable Universal Envy Characteristics Willingness Substitutes Good Work

Author:Agnes Repplier

“... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens--if we are unaware that women even have a history--we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.”

Ifs Philosophy Past Accepting History Our Lives Wind Universal Response Males Definitions Myth Bias Our Past Lenses Drifting

Book:Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985

Source: Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985

“The Universal Law is impartial. It will give you anything you believe. It will throw you garbage or roses depending on the energy you put in. You are the one in charge, and you must accept that and stand alone. If you think God is coming down to fix things for you, forget it. God is out playing golf.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Believe Law Energy Forget Accepting Universal Rose Golf Garbage Forget It Stand Alone Playing Golf Universal Laws

Book:Affirmations

Source: Affirmations

“For the artist, the goal of the painting or musical composition is not to convey literal truth, but an aspect of a universal truth that if successful, will continue to move and to touch people even as contexts, societies and cultures change. For the scientist, the goal of a theory is to convey "truth for now"--to replace an old truth, while accepting that someday this theory, too, will be replaced by a new "truth," because that is the way science advances.”

“So in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is not what we believe concerning the immortality of the soul, or the like, but the universal impulse to believe, that is the material circumstance, and is the principal fact in this history of the globe.”

Believe Soul Facts Accepting Materials Circumstances Universal Impulse Immortality Sentiments Principal Globes

Book:Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays

Source: Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays