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“Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.”

Ifs Thinking World Needs Differences Common This World Universal Threat Aliens Ufo Sirius Alien Invasion

Book:Ronald Reagan

Source: Ronald Reagan

“People just didn't write songs that were so directly emotional in those days. They still don't. Part of Hank's [Williams] thing was that he was opening up about relationships between men and women in ways that nobody else did, and I think that's something that made him stand out so much. His songs are just so straightforward about these really deep feelings that are universal, but they're so hard to write about without sounding sappy or over the top. You think of men in that era - they didn't express themselves that way.”

“I think universal harmony is a pipedream and it may be more productive to focus on more modest goals, like a ban on yodeling.”

Thinking May Goal Focus Universal Harmony Productive Modest Bans Yodeling

Author:Woody Allen

“It seems to me, thinking of it, that there must be some universal plan which set in motion the orbiting of the electrons about the nucleus and the slower, more majestic orbit of the galaxies about one another to the very edge of space”

Thinking Seems Space Plans Universal Edges Galaxy Orbit Majestic Electrons Nucleus

Book:A Choice of Gods

Source: A Choice of Gods

“You keep thinking that with practice you will eventually get the knack of enjoying superficial encounters, that you will stop looking for the universal solvent, stop grieving. You will learn to compound happiness out of small increments of mindless pleasure.”

Thinking Enjoy Pleasure Practice Universal Grieving Encounters Superficial Compounds Mindless Knack

Book:Bright Lights, Big City

Source: Bright Lights, Big City

“A person is quite different from a tree or rock or stream. By introducing the nude into my pictures, I started perceiving all the things I was photographing in new ways. In contrast or opposition to each other, things became much more significant and interesting, revealing many more qualities than I had ever dreamed of knowing and expressing. By using the nude, I stopped thinking in terms of objects.”

“When you're a kid, 'Star Trek' is a slower burn. It's funny, it's entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it - which is its universal appeal, I think.”

Thinking Kids Stars Universal Appeals Maturity Entertaining

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“Pop Art is industrial painting. I think the meaning of my work is that it is industrial, it's what all the world will soon become. Europe will be the same way, soon, it won't be American; it will be universal.”

Thinking World Way Art Painting Art Is Europe Universal Pops Pop Art

Book:Roy Lichtenstein: Exhibition 6 Jan.-4 Feb. 1968, Tate Gallery, London ...

Source: Roy Lichtenstein: Exhibition 6 Jan.-4 Feb. 1968, Tate Gallery, London ...

“If we think we are tired or ill, it is only because we have done something to unbalance the bodily conductivity of the universal electric current which motivates it.”

Ifs Thinking Done Balance Healthy Sick Universal Tired Ill Currents Electric Electric Current

Author:Walter Russell

“To say that we are able by our own efforts to think good thoughts or give God spiritual obedience before we are spiritually regenerate is to overthrow the gospel and the faith of the universal church in all ages.”

Thinking Giving Age Able Spiritual Church Effort Universal Obedience Good Thoughts

Author:John Owen

“Generally my feeling is that I think women are just in a universal way coming out, coming to their own more. And they have more opportunity, and basically we're equal.”

Thinking Way Feelings Opportunity Equal Universal Coming Out

Author:Chantal Kreviazuk