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“It's a universal story, it's an immigrant story, and it's a love story. In the United States, if you believe in yourself and you're determined and persevere, you're going to succeed.”

Ifs Believe States Stories United United States Succeed Universal Determined Love Story Believe In Yourself Immigrants Believe In You If You Believe Persevere If You Believe In Yourself

Author:Gloria Estefan

“Turkey is not a part of Europe and will never be part of Europe ... The universal values which are in force in Europe, and which are fundamental values of Christianity, will lose vigor with the entry of a large Islamic country such as Turkey.”

Country Values Force Loses Christianity Europe Universal Fundamentals Islamic Turkeys Entry Vigor

Author:Herman Van Rompuy

“This Law -- whether Conscious or Unconscious --predestines nothing and no one. It exists from and in Eternity, truly, for it is ETERNITY itself; and as such, since no act can be co-equal with eternity, it cannot be said to act, for it is ACTION itself...Karma creates nothing, nor does it design. It is man who plans and creates causes, and Karmic law adjusts the effects; which adjustment is not an act, but universal harmony, tending ever to resume its original position.”

Men Doe Said Action Law Causes Plans Effects Design Position Equal Conscious Universal Eternity Harmony Originals Karma Unconscious Adjustment Resumes

Author:H. P. Blavatsky

“So-called austerity, the stoic injunction, is the path towards universal destruction. It is the old, the fatal, competitive path. Pull in your belt is a slogan closely related to gird up your loins, or the guns-butter metaphor.”

Path Gun Economics Destruction Universal Metaphor Related Belts Slogans Stoic Austerity

Book:The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work

Source: The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work

“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”

Poetry History Particular Universal Philosophical Historical Poetry Is

Author:Aristotle

“The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.”

Years Long Has Beens School Church Universal Dimensions Forty Introducing Bishops Good School

Author:Karl Lehmann

“Christmas is forced upon 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.”

Nations Hatred Universal Breaths Presses Christmas Merit Reluctant Fiery Sausage Disgusted Shopkeepers

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“The universal line of distinction between the strong and the weak is that one persists; the other hesitates, falters, trifles, and at last collapses or "caves in.”

Lasts Strong Lines Weak Universal Perseverance Distinction Collapse Persist Caves Trifles

Book:Character and characteristic men

Source: Character and characteristic men

“Genius is by definition a style of consciousness characterized by the ability to access high energy attractor patterns. It is not a personality characteristic. It is not something that a person has, nor even something that someone is. Those in whom we recognize genius commonly disclaim it. A universal characteristic of genius is humility. The genius has always attributed his insights to some higher influence.”

Persons Energy Ability Consciousness Influence Style Humility Personality Genius Higher Universal Patterns Definitions Insight Access Characteristics High Energy

Author:David R. Hawkins

“An aphorism is a personal observation inflated into a universal truth, a private posing as a general.”

Universal Observation Privacy Aphorism Posing Universal Truth

Author:Stefan Kanfer

“The universal methodology of the tyrant is always incrementalism.”

Politics Universal Tyrants Methodology Incrementalism

Author:Derek R. Audette

“Science is the study of the admitted laws of existence, which cannot prove a universal negative about whether those laws could ever be suspended by something admittedly above them. It is as if we were to say that a lawyer was so deeply learned in the American Constitution that he knew there could never be a revolution in America.”

Ifs America Law Science Existence Study Revolution Prove Negative Universal Constitution Lawyer Suspended American Constitution

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it - low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion - and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.”

“You don't buy into huge car chases or sensates or interstellar warfare, but you can buy into a loving relationship or a father-son relationship, and you can buy into the small humor. If you want to make your fiction universal, go small. That's the best way to do it.”

Ifs Way Want Father Fiction Car Son Huge Universal Best Way Warfare Father Son Interstellar Loving Relationships Father Son Relationship

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotism at solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation. Egotism sows for gratitude, love for the ungrateful. Love gives, egotism lends; and love does this before the throne of judicial truth, indifferent if for the enjoyment of the following moment, or with the view to a martyr's crown--indifferent whether the reward is in this life or in the next.”

Source: Philosophical Letters of Friedrich Schiller

“The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.”

Art Important Language Activity Art Is Universal Importance

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“The right to err, which means the freedom to try experiments, is the universal condition of all progress.”

Trying Mean Progress Conditions Universal Experiments

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

“The universal subjugator, the commonplace.”

Universal Unity Commonplace

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.”

Universal Harmony Strife

Author:Will Durant

“The universal nature out of the universal substance, as if it were wax, now molds a horse, and when it has broken this up, it uses the material for a tree, then for a man, then for something else.”

Ifs Men Use Tree Materials Broken Universal Horse Substance Mold

Book:The Thoughts of the Emperor M. Aurelius Antonius

Source: The Thoughts of the Emperor M. Aurelius Antonius

“Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller.”

Long Action Spirit Work Universal Poison Tire Traveller Vigor Arteries Nimble

Book:Love's Labor's Lost

Source: Love's Labor's Lost

“Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that "would," in this world of ours, is a mere zero to "should," and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to "shall.”

Knows World Should Break Destiny This World Duty Universal Mere Obedience Zero Smallest Fractions

Book:Carlyle Reader

Source: Carlyle Reader

“No man is an island- he is a holon. A Janus-faced entity who, looking inward, sees himself as a self-contained unique whole, looking outward as a dependent part. His self-assertive tendency is the dynamic manifestation of his unique wholeness, his autonomy and independence as a holon. Its equally universal antagonist, the integrative tendency, expresses his dependence on the larger whole to which he belongs: his 'part-ness.'.”

Men Self Whole Unique Universal Independence Tendencies Manifestation Islands Dependent Entity Inward Wholeness Dependence Autonomy Assertive Antagonist Self Contained Janus

Author:Arthur Koestler

“Modern man lives isolated in his artificial environment, not because the artificial is evil as such, but because of his lack of comprehension of the forces which make it work- of the principles which relate his gadgets to the forces of nature, to the universal order. It is not central heating which makes his existence 'unnatural,' but his refusal to take an interest in the principles behind it. By being entirely dependent on science, yet closing his mind to it, he leads the life of an urban barbarian.”

Source: The Act of Creation

“Over no nation does the press hold a more absolute control than over the people of America, for the universal education of the poorest classes makes every individual a reader.”

People Doe America Individual Nations Class Reader Universal Absolutes Presses Newspapers Poorest Universal Education

Book:The Complete Works of Washington Irving: Short Stories, Plays, Historical Works, Poetry and Autobiographical Writings (Illustrated): The Entire Opus of the Prolific American Writer, Biographer and Historian, Including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall and many more

Source: The Complete Works of Washington Irving: Short Stories, Plays, Historical Works, Poetry and Autobiographical Writings (Illustrated): The Entire Opus of the Prolific American Writer, Biographer and Historian, Including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall and many more

“One must believe that private dilemmas are, if deeply examined, universal, and so, if expressed, have a human value beyond the private, and one must also believe in the vehicle for expressing them, in the talent.”

Ifs Believe Humans Values Belief Talent Universal Vehicle Dilemma Human Values

Book:Journal of a Solitude

Source: Journal of a Solitude

“The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to develop as an equal human being.”

Humans Light Age Justice Dark Human Beings Liberty Moral Christianity Greater Society Civilization Equal Tests Universal Slave Goddess Toys Savages Sentimental Dark Ages

Author:George William Curtis

“What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.”

Men Play Feelings Opinion Truth Is Universal Temporary Application Mischief

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)

“Nothing that man ever invents will absolve him from the universal necessity of being good as God is good, righteous as God is righteous, and holy as God is holy.”

Men Holy Goodness Universal Be Good Righteous

Book:David: Five Sermons

Source: David: Five Sermons

“Therefore God's universal law Gave to the man despotic power Over his female in due awe, Not from that right to part an hour, Smile she or lour.”

Men Law Hours He Man Female Universal Dues Awe Matrimony Universal Laws

Book:British Theatre: Caractacus

Source: British Theatre: Caractacus

“Goals give us direction. They put a powerful force into play on a universal, conscious, and subconscious level. Goals give our life direction.”

Giving Play Force Goal Levels Powerful Our Lives Conscious Universal Subconscious Life Direction New Year Life

Book:The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections

Source: The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections

“Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less, because they are universal.”

Produce Weakness Universal Delusion Mischief

Book:The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

Source: The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

“Death is the universal salt of states; Blood is the base of all things--law and war.”

War States Law Death Blood All Things Universal Salt

Book:Festus: a poem

Source: Festus: a poem

“One (practitioner of science) is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail's eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ.”

Men Stills Light Eye Wonder Mystery Universal Educated Controlled Delicate Organs Sense Of Wonder Snail Educated Man Wonder And Mystery

Author:Loren Eiseley

“In the end, science as we know it has two basic types of practitioners. One is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail's eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ. The second kind of observer is the extreme reductionist who is so busy stripping things apart that the tremendous mystery has been reduced to a trifle, to intangibles not worth troubling one's head about.”

“The Artist submits from day to day to the fatal rhythm of the impulses of the universal world which encloses him, continual centre of sensations, always pliant, hypnotized by the marvels of nature which he loves, he scrutinizes. His eyes, like his soul, are in perpetual communion with the most fortuitous of phenomena.”

World Soul Eye Artist Universal Rhythm Impulse His Eyes Sensations Perpetual Submit Communion Day To Day Centre Scrutinize Fortuitous

Book:Nature and Imagination: The Work of Odilon Redon

Source: Nature and Imagination: The Work of Odilon Redon

“A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal”

Two Thirds Universal Scandal Applause

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“The Olympic Games are not just ordinary world championships but a quadrennial festival of universal youth. . . celebrated by each succeeding generation as it arrives on the threshold of adulthood.”

World Games Generations Youth Succeed Ordinary Universal Adulthood Championship Festivals Threshold Olympic Games Ordinary World

Author:Pierre de Coubertin

“Only when men are connected to large, universal goals are they really happy-and one result of their happiness is a rush of creative activity.”

Men Goal Results Creativity Creative Activity Universal Connected Really Happy

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“As an artist you're looking for universal triggers. You want it both ways. You want it to have an immediate impact, and you want it to have deep meanings as well. I'm striving for both. But I hate it when people write things that sound like they've swallowed a f... dictionary.”

People Way Want Writing Wells Artist Hate Sound Universal I Hate Impact Critics Strive Triggers Dictionary Deep Meaning

Author:Damien Hirst

“There is a universal moral law, as distinct from a moral code, which consists of certain statements of fact about the nature of man, and by behaving in conformity with which, man may enjoy his true freedom.”

Men May Facts Law Certain Enjoy Moral Ethics Universal Statements Code Conformity Nature Of Man True Freedom Moral Law Moral Code

Book:Mind of the Maker

Source: Mind of the Maker

“Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair.”

Causes Practice Despair Findings Universal Permanent Misfortunes Desperation Helplessness

Book:Authentic Happiness

Source: Authentic Happiness

“On the other hand, permanent causes produce helplessness far into the future, and universal causes spread helplessness through all your endeavors.”

Hands Causes Produce Future Universal Spread Permanent Endeavor Helplessness

Book:Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

Source: Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

“Archetypes are universal, and, in subtle or extravagant ways, interchangeable.”

Way Universal Subtle Extravagant Extravagance Archetype

Author:Tanith Lee

“I believe the ultimate goal of living and refining your values is to identify and achieve congruence with universal principles.”

Believe Values I Believe Goal Principles Achieve Ultimate Universal Ultimate Goal Refining Congruence

Author:Steve Pavlina

“The earth is convulsed with a universal sob, and the roads are muddy with tears. But I do not call to mind a more touching picture of unavailing misery and ruin, and hopeless chaos, than the plug hat that has endeavored to keep sober and maintain self-respect while its owner was drunk.”

Mind Self Earth Tears Universal Misery Chaos Drunk Ruins Self Respect Hats Owners Hopeless Touching Sober Drunkenness Plugs Muddy

Author:Edgar Wilson Nye

“The New Testament evinces its universal design in its very, style, which alone distinguishes it from all the literary productions of earlier and later times.”

Style Design Universal Productions Testament New Testament

Book:Church History

Source: Church History

“I am very pleased to be involved with the Daniel Pearl Music Days committee because its message resonates with me on a very personal level, My own career is an example of the universal power of music, especially the power of Hip Hop, to bring people of different backgrounds together for a common purpose. I hope that my commitment to the Daniel Pearl Music Days committee will encourage all music lovers - both amateurs and professionals - to get involved with the Music Days performance network and contribute to the 'Harmony For Humanity' e-Stage.”

“Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.”

Wealth Democracy Materials Universal Soil Modernism Material Wealth Universal Education

Author:Ai Weiwei

“The absorption of the individual in the universal is only another term for its destruction.”

Individual Term Destruction Universal Absorption

Author:C. H. Dodd