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“I do not know whether this universe has an emperor; all I know is that this empire is in chaos; universal order is a big delusion.”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Reincarnation is, indeed, the key which unlocks all doors, the universal "combination," before which our manacles fall from our limbs -- the life-line by which the crooked way is made straight.”

Way Made Fall Lines Doors Keys Universal Combination Reincarnation Limbs Crooked Life Line

Author:Shaw Desmond

“I think there's mind in nature. There's a power in nature, and there's a universal power that you'd better not ignore.”

Thinking Mind Universal

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“What I think is the universal, wonderful thing about music, is that it's very inclusive.”

Thinking Wonderful Music Is Universal Wonderful Things

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“I write songs on a universal basis. I was born out of the earth of Jamaica which I consider to be a part of Atlantis, the sunk continent, but that's my thing. But I write songs on a universal basis, not like Jamaican songs.”

Writing Earth Song Born Universal Bases Continents Jamaica Atlantis Jamaicans

Author:Jimmy Cliff

“Currently there's no other way to get a movie into 3,000 theaters except with a studio. We have a first-look deal with Universal, and it's been fun to work with them. But studios are a part of our life. I think they'll always be, but they'll play a different role. The consumer and the creator are getting closer together.”

Thinking Way Firsts Looks Different Play Together Fun Deals Roles Our Lives Universal Theater Creator Studios Consumers

Author:Jason Blum

“If your thoughts are universal, you visit every house, every window, like the Moon on the sky!”

Ifs House Sky Moon Window Universal

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The artist is one who makes a concentrated statement about the world in which he lives and that statement tends to become impersonal-it tends to become universal and enduring because it comes out of something very particular.”

World Artist Particular Universal Endure Statements

Author:Paul Strand

“God does not live in structures of stone or brick. He lives in soft hearts warm with sympathy and fragrant with universal love.”

Heart Doe Stones Universal Structure Warm Bricks Universal Love Soft Heart

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“The adventures of the boy who doesn't want to grow up has universal appeal. We all want to keep something of the child in us.”

Want Children Grows Boys Growing Up Adventure Universal Appeals

Author:Tessa Jowell

“Religious concerns ok, if translated into universal values.”

Ifs Values Religious Concern Universal

Author:Barack Obama

“All art is propaganda. ... The only difference is the kind of propaganda. Since art is essential for human life, it can't just belong to the few. Art is the universal language, and it belongs to all mankind. All painters have been propagandists or else they have not been painters. ... Every artist who has been worth anything in art has been such a propagandist. ... Every strong artist has been a propagandist. I want to be a propagandist and I want to be nothing else. ... I want to use my art as a weapon.”

Want Humans Kind Has Beens Art Use Artist Language Strong Differences Mankind Essentials Weapons Art Is Universal Painter Human Life Propaganda Very Strong Universal Language Propagandist

Author:Diego Rivera

“A state of true and universal tolerance is best ensured by leaving alone the peculiarities of men and peoples.”

Men States Universal Leaving Tolerance

Book:Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims

Source: Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims

“Democracy turns upon and devours itself. Universal suffrage, in theory the palladium of our liberties, becomes the assurance of our slavery. And that slavery will grow more and more abject and ignoble as the differential birth rate, the deliberate encouragement of mendicancy and the failure of popular education produce a larger and larger mass of prehensile half-wits, and so make the demagogues more and more secure.”

“Art is a universal language and through it each nation makes its own unique contribution to the culture of mankind.”

Art Culture Language Nations Mankind Unique Art Is Universal Contribution Universal Language

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“If we are to reach certainty and true autonomy of realization, we need to be willing to be heretics. What's more, we need to become universal heretics, not believing anything that we do not know from direct experience, beyond stories, beyond hearsay, and even beyond the mind.”

Ifs Knows Needs Mind Believe Stories Willing Direct Universal Certainty Realization Autonomy Heretic Hearsay

Book:Diamond Heart: Book Five: Inexhaustible Mystery

Source: Diamond Heart: Book Five: Inexhaustible Mystery

“If we in Asia want to speak credibly for Asian values, we must be prepared to also champion those ideals which are universal and belong to humanity as a whole...It is altogether shameful, if ingenious, to cite 'Asian values' as an excuse for autocratic practices and the denial of basic rights and civil liberties.”

Ifs Want Whole Values Humanity Speak Liberty Practice Rights Ideals Universal Prepared Excuse Denial Champion Be Prepared Asia Asian Shameful Civil Liberties Ingenious Citing Basic Rights

Author:Anwar Ibrahim

“Communications and commerce are global; investment is mobile; technology is almost magical; and ambition for a better life is now universal. We earn our livelihood in peaceful competition with people all across the earth. Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world, and the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1993

“It's a new medium, it's a universal medium and it's not itself a medium which inherently makes people do good things, or bad things. It allows people to do what they want to do more efficiently.”

People Want Universal Good Things Mediums Bad Things

Author:Tim Berners-Lee

“I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.”

“Your sect [the Jews] by its sufferings has furnished a remarkable proof of the universal point of religious insolence, inherent in every sect, disclaimed by all while feeble and practised by all when in power. Our laws have applied the only antidote to this vice, protecting our religions, as they do our civil rights, by putting all on equal footing. But more remains to be done.”

Done Law Suffering Religious Rights Equal Universal Remains Jew Vices Proof Civil Rights Remarkable Inherent Antidote Sects Insolence

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“There are a lot of little things about our bodies that we all know, but we never talk about. That's what interests me. These are practically universal experiences; nobody mentions them! Some of them are disgusting. Some of them are appallingly revolting and degrading even to the most degenerate mind. So let's get started with a couple of them.”

Knows Mind Littles Body Interest Couple Universal Little Things Disgusting Degenerates Degrading

Author:George Carlin

“Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: When will I be blown up? Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat. He must learn them again.”

Men Writing Humans Heart Long Problem Today Young Spirit Bears Conflict Universal Tragedy Forgotten Young Man Sweat Agony Human Heart Good Writing

Author:William Faulkner

“I mean these are universal themes. I try not to preach, for sure. I don't enjoy movies that preach - so I don't want to preach myself when I tell stories because I just feel all of these themes are built into us in terms of redemption and mercy and love and compassion and all these things. And the negative sides, as well.”

Want Feels Trying Wells Mean Stories Enjoy Sides Term Compassion Built Negative Mercy And Love Universal Redemption Theme Love And Compassion Universal Themes

Author:Michael Landon, Jr.

“We call that the American dream, but in fact, it's a universal dream of a better life that people have all over the world. It is a reminder that every country in the world has rich people. What makes America special is that we have millions and millions of people that are not rich, that through hard work and perseverance are able to be successful.”

People World Country Hard Facts Dream Able America Millions Successful Rich Special Hard Work Universal Perseverance Being Successful American Dream Better Life Reminders Rich People

Author:Marco Rubio

“What you always try to do, as an actor, is find the thing that's universal in the person.”

Trying Persons Actors Universal

Author:Finn Wittrock

“Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.”

Literature Peace Sound Universal Average Ridiculous

Author:Kin Hubbard

“I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.”

Humans Progress Weakness Universal Instability

Author:Petrarch

“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

“To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.”

Pain Romance Political Literature Imagination Moral Drug Universal Endure Preparation Superstitions Idealism Sentimental Gin Hashish

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Mozart combines serenity, melancholy, and tragic intensity into one great lyric improvisation. Over it all hovers the greater spirit that is Mozart's - the spirit of compassion, of universal love, even of suffering - a spirit that knows no age, that belongs to all ages.”

Knows Age Spirit Suffering Compassion Greater Universal Tragic Over It Melancholy Intensity Serenity Improvisation Universal Love Great Lyric

Author:Leonard Bernstein

“It does not matter what name you attach to it, but your consciousness must ascend to the point through which you view the universe with your God-centered nature. The feeling accompanying this experience is that of complete oneness with the Universal Whole... This God-centered nature is constantly awaiting to govern your life gloriously. You have the free will to either allow it to govern your life, or not to allow it to affect you. The choice is always yours!”

Doe Matter Whole Feelings Choices Universe Names Views Consciousness Universal Oneness Free Will

Author:Peace Pilgrim

“I am never lonely or discouraged or tired. When you live in constant communion with God, you cannot be lonely. When you perceive the working of God's wonderful plan and know that all good effort bears good fruit, you cannot be discouraged. When you have found inner peace, you are in contact with the source of universal energy and cannot be tired.”

Knows Found Energy Effort Plans Wonderful Source Bears Lonely Universal Tired Constant Fruit Inner Peace Contact Perceive Communion Discouraged Communion With God Universal Energy

Author:Peace Pilgrim

“The progressive growth of the finite consciousness of man towards this Self, towards the universal , the eternal, the infinite, in a word his growth into spiritual consciousness by the development of his ordinary ignorant natural being into an illumined divine nature, this is for Indian thinking the significance of life and the aim of human existance.”

“A world without open country would be universal jail.”

World Country Would Be Universal Jail

Book:The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel

Source: The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel

“The desire to transcend one's own ego boundaries, to share completely, even for a moment, the consciousness of another person must be a universal longing. It motivates many of our activities from taking drugs to making love, and lies behind the search for new ways of getting close to one another that is so intense in our society today.”

Way Persons Moments Today Lying Desire Behinds Consciousness Share Drug Activity Ego Universal Longing Boundaries Intense Our Society New Ways Making Love Society Today

Author:Andrew Weil

“Christ wasn't a Christian and Buddha wasn't a Buddhist and Muhammad wasn't Muslim. These people were having the experience of unity consciousnesses and universal consciousness and they spoke of it in words.”

People Christian Christ Consciousness Universal Unity Buddhist Spokes Muhammad

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Science is nothing more than a method of inquiry. The method says an assertion is valid - and will be universally accepted - only if it can be reproduced by others, and thereby independently verified. The impersonal rigor of the method has produced enormously powerful results for 400 years. The scientific method is utterly apolitical. A truth in science is verifiable whether you are black or white, male or female, old or young. It’s verifiable whether you know the experimenter, or whether you don’t.”

Ifs Mean Young Black White Results Study Acceptance Female Universal Method Males Merit Inquiry Assertion Rigor Black Or White Apolitical

Author:Michael Crichton

“The truths that are found in the Bible are universal truths. And it shapes who you are and guides you throughout your life.”

Found Shapes Universal Who You Are Guides Universal Truth

Author:Ernie Hudson

“What happened is I was going to college in 1950. L. A. City College. A guy I knew was going to an acting class on Thursday nights. He started telling me about all the good-lookin' chicks and said, "Why don't you go with me?" So I probably had some motivation beyond thoughts of being an actor. And sure enough, he was right. There were a lot of girls and not many guys. I said, "Yeah, they need me here." I wound up at Universal as a contract player.”

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Author:Clint Eastwood

“The spiritual world needs two revolutions: One is to separate God from religion and the other is to separate religion from God! This purification process will make God less human and more universal.”

World Needs Humans Two Spiritual Process Revolution Universal Purification

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“To create a new universal idea is to create a new star in the universe!”

Ideas Universe Stars Universal

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“When you say something, say it not for a specific day, not for a specific era, not for a specific country, but say it for all the days, for all the eras and for all the countries. Speak universal, and thus you don't have to speak thousands times; you speak once and you will be heard even ten thousand years later!”

Years Country Speak Heard Thousand Ten Universal Eras Thousand Years

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“While local matters are happening around you, let your mind sail to the ocean of universal matters.”

Mind Matter Ocean Happenings Universal Locals Sail

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“My existence is such that "I" do not really exist. At the end of understanding so much I understand that I know nothing. I suffer for being surrounded by intense suffering and yet I'm deeply suspicious if first of all there is indeed any consciousness except me. I strive to find the artist who might have fathered this great universal art but feel myself to be too feeble to accomplish this seemingly unattainable mission. Yet I have every respect for life, and it is this sheer respect that makes me live.”

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Author:Kedar Joshi

“One of the great intellectual mistakes Einstein made is that he thought that space and time are physically or ontologically entangled. In the present non-spatial universal computational program, space and time happen to be entangled to the extent that, under certain unique circumstances, changes in spatial measurements indicate changes in temporal ones. However, a change in the program itself may cause space and time to disentangle.”

May Made Happens Certain Causes Space Mistake Circumstances Unique Intellectual Program Universal Time And Space Measurement Spatial

Author:Kedar Joshi

“Money is a topic that touches all races, all religions, all sexes, all ages, all tax brackets. It's a universal language that truly has been held up to us in society as a thing that determines whether we are successful, worthy, whether we have contributed something to life or not.”

Has Beens Age Language Sex Race Successful Taxes Universal Determine Worthy Topics Universal Language Brackets

Author:Suze Orman

“A vida sem luta é um mar morto no centro do organismo universal.”

Universal Vida Mars

Book:Romances de Machado de Assis - Obras Completas [Ilustrado, Notas, Biografia com Análises e Críticas, Resumos e Estudos de Cada Obra] - Dom Casmurro, Brás Cubas, Quincas Borba e outros - Vol. I: Romance

Source: Romances de Machado de Assis - Obras Completas [Ilustrado, Notas, Biografia com Análises e Críticas, Resumos e Estudos de Cada Obra] - Dom Casmurro, Brás Cubas, Quincas Borba e outros - Vol. I: Romance

“With supernatural intuition Blessed Josemaria untiringly preached the universal call to holiness and apostolate. Christ calls everyone to become holy in the realities of everyday life. Hence work too is a means of personal holiness and apostolate when it is done in union with Jesus Christ”

Mean Done Reality Jesus Christ Holy Jesus Christ Universal Blessed Unions Everyday Intuition Holiness Everyday Life

Book:Letters to My Brother Priests

Source: Letters to My Brother Priests

“Mandela's message will never die. It will continue to inspire freedom fighters and give confidence to people who defend just causes and universal rights.”

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Author:Francois Hollande