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“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.”

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

Two Thirds Universal Scandal Applause

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“We are in the position of the man who has only two ambitions in life. One is to invent the universal solvent which will dissolve any solid substance, and the second is to invent the universal container which will hold any liquid. Whatever this inventor does, he will be frustrated.”

Men Doe Two Position He Man Ambition Universal Substance Frustrated Inventor Liquid Containers Life Ambition

Book:The human use of human beings: cybernetics and society

Source: The human use of human beings: cybernetics and society

“But deepest of all illusory Appearances, for hiding Wonder, as for many other ends, are your two grand fundamental world-enveloping Appearances, SPACE and TIME. These, as spun and woven for us from before Birth itself, to clothe our celestial ME for dwelling here, and yet to blind it, lie all-embracing, as the universal canvas, or warp and woof, whereby all minor Illusions, in this Phantasm Existence, weave and paint themselves. In vain, while here on Earth, shall you endeavor to strip them off; you can, at best, but rend them asunder for moments, and look through.”

Source: Carlyle Reader

“A political life, I've often said, is a continuing education in human nature, including one's own. My involvement on the ground floor of two presidential campaigns and my duties as First Lady took me to every state in our union and to seventy-eight nations. In each place, I met someone or saw something that caused me to open my mind and my heart and deepen my understanding of the universal concerns that most of humanity shares.”

“Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important, but because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one's role in society, and the relation between the two.”

Believe Two Important Self Roles Hero Discovery Universal Relation Self Discovery Transcendence Universal Truth

Book:The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage

Source: The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage

“There's a couple of universal principles in life. One is, don't ever open a restaurant. One out of every two fails.”

Two Principles Failing Couple Universal Restaurants

Author:Susan Powter

“Two things are universal: Hydrogen and stupidity”

Two Universal Stupidity Two Things Hydrogen

Author:Frank Zappa

“Man's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in the absense of universal gullibility?”

Men Years Believe Two Church Principles Thousand Universal Traits Thousand Years Survived Readiness Gullibility

Author:Umberto Eco

“... a novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general and universal, and a quality of imaginative perception which applies just as much now as it did in the fifty or hundred or two hundred years since the novel came to life.”

Years Two Truth Fiction Quality Novel Perception Hundred Universal Fifty Truth Of Life Imaginative Truthfulness

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“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

“It's exciting to me that Ride Along is a movie that has two African American leads, but it's even more exciting to me that it's not a movie about two African American leads. They just happen to be African American. It's a universal story. It's a story about a guy in love with a girl, and he's gotta get the approval of the overbearing, mean brother. That's a universal theme.”

Mean Two Stories Happens Guy Girl Brother Universal Exciting African American Theme Approval Overbearing Universal Themes

Author:Will Packer

“One, what would happen if everyone did this thing? Two, would this help or hinder the movement toward universal ultimate complexity?”

Ifs Two Helping Happens Movement Ultimate Universal Complexity Hinder

Author:Gregory David Roberts

“I think the nature of songwriters is that they are philosophers, and philosophers have a bent towards poetry and songwriting, so I think that the two run around together. The nature of a songwriter could be philosophical. Looking for universal ideas, a way to say things, get the story across as a means of entertaining, provoking thought.”

Thinking Way Mean Two Ideas Stories Running Together Universal Philosophical Philosopher Songwriting Entertaining Songwriters Provoking Bent

Author:Tom T. Hall

“Mahar-jji used to say 'wherever the Satsang gets together, I am there', kind of echoing Jesus' statement: wherever two or more of you get together in my name, I am there. So Maharaj-ji was a universal part of the spirit in that way. He's always with me, here. He's with whoever is with him. Not only just me.”

Way Kind Two Together Used Spirit Jesus Names Universal Statements Get Together Satsang

Author:Surya Das

“I have inherited two of the most important brands in hip-hop, Def Jam and Roc-A-Fella. Reid and Universal Music Group have given me the opportunity to manage the companies I have contributed to my whole career. I feel this is a giant step for me and the entire artist community.”

Feels Two Important Whole Artist Opportunity Given Community Company Steps Careers Groups Universal Hip Hop Manage Brands Hips Giants Hops Jam Fellas

Author:Jay-Z

“From the beginning, there has been a tension in the reception of the Kantian idea of autonomy. If you emphasize the 'nomos' (the law), then you get one picture: the objectivity of ethics. If you emphasize the 'autos' - the self - you get the idea that we make the law. Kant never hesitated in his choice between the two emphases. He emphasizes the nomos (the universal and objective validity of the law).”

Ifs Has Beens Two Ideas Self Law Choices Ethics Universal Objectives Tension Emphasis Autonomy Objectivity Validity Reception

Author:Allen W. Wood

“We have two kinds of oppression. Oppression that is universal - everyone in Iran is subject to it. But everyone has also their own, unique way of experiencing this oppression.”

Way Kind Two Subjects Unique Universal Oppression Iran

Author:Akbar Ganji

“I grew up in Venezuela, and when I was 14-years-old, my parents decided to sell everything and come to America. Five of us lived in a two bedroom house. It wasn't a sad truth, it was just the way it was [at the time]. That feeling is so universal for every immigrant.”

Way Years Two Feelings America House Parent Five Grew Grew Up Decided Universal Sells Immigrants Bedroom Venezuela Sad Truth Bedroom House

Author:Wilmer Valderrama

“Like morality, literature needs to be universal. So that the writer must put himself on the side of the majority, of the two billion starving, if he wishes to be able to speak to all and be read by all. Failing that, he is at the service of a privileged class and, like it, an exploiter.”

Ifs Needs Two Able Literature Speak Wish Sides Class Failing Morality Universal Majority Billions Privileged Starving

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“Everyone who was here [Sheraton Universal Hotel] when I won still works here, so the two biggest moments in my career are intersecting. It's so cool that I can say "hi" to everybody.”

Stills I Can Two Moments Careers Universal Hotel

Author:Zach Anner

“The fact that Universal Jurisdiction exists in relation to serious international crimes does convey two important aspects of the global reality: first, that such individuals would be held accountable if international law was applied without regard to geopolitics, and second, that there is enough ambiguity about the reach of UJ that it inhibits such individuals and conveys an impression of de facto criminality.”

“I have a lot of influences. I'm American-schooled. I'm classically trained. I'm a pretty universal student, if you will. I have a lot of degrees, which really don't pay the rent. I have two doctorate degrees, I have a bachelor's degree, but I'm still a cook.”

Ifs Stills Two Pay Influence Students Degrees Universal Cooks Schooled Bachelors Doctorates

Author:Emeril Lagasse

“There are two kinds of knowledge, local and universal.”

Kind Two Universal Locals

Book:The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin

Source: The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin

“There's something so universal about that sensation, the way running unites our two most primal impulses: fear and pleasure. We run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time.”

Way Two Problem Running Pleasure Universal Scared Impulse Good Times Sensations Running Away Primal Ecstatic Born To Run

Author:Christopher McDougall

“To an eagle or to an owl or to a rabbit, man must seem a masterful and yet a forlorn animal; he has but two friends. In his almost universal unpopularity he points out, with pride, that these two are the dog and the horse. He believes, with an innocence peculiar to himself, that they are equally proud of this alleged confraternity. He says, 'Look at my two noble friends -- they are dumb, but they are loyal.' I have for years suspected that they are only tolerant.”

Men Years Believe Looks Two Seems Animal Dog Pride Proud Universal Horse Noble Dumb Innocence Peculiar Loyal Rabbits Eagles Owl Forlorn Two Friends

Book:West with the Night

Source: West with the Night

“The two stand in the fast-thinning throng of victims, but they speak as if they were alone. Eye to eye, voice to voice, hand to hand, heart to heart, these two children of the Universal Mother, else so wide apart and differing, have come together on the dark highway, to repair home together and to rest in her bosom.”

Ifs Heart Children Two Home Hands Eye Together Mother Speak Voice Dark Universal Victim Wide Highways Bosoms Heart To Heart

Book:Four Novels: Great Expectations, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, and Hard Times

Source: Four Novels: Great Expectations, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, and Hard Times

“Unless and until we have peace deep within us, we can never hope to have peace in the outer world. You and I create the world by the vibrations that we offer to it. If we can invoke peace and then offer it to somebody else, we will see how peace expands from one to two persons, and gradually to the world at large. Peace will come about in the world from the perfection of individuals. If you have peace, I have peace, he has peace, and she has peace, then automatically universal peace will dawn.”

Ifs World Persons Two Individual Offers Perfection Universal Dawn Vibrations Deep Within Invoke Outer Worlds

Book:The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace

Source: The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace

“Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium or two, but everything must finally fall in war, or wear away into the ultimate and universal ash - the triumphs, the frauds, the treasures and the fakes. A fact of life: we're going to die. "Be of good heart," cry the dead artists out of the living past. "Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing." Maybe a man's name doesn't matter all that much.”

“Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.”

Two Film Three Language Music Universal Mathematics Jazz Musical Math Universal Language Math And Music

Book:The Name Above the Title: An Autobiography

Source: The Name Above the Title: An Autobiography

“A universal renunciation of violence requires the commitment of the whole of society. These are not matters of government but matters of State; not only matters for the authoirities, but for society in its entirety, including civilian, military, and religious bodies. The mobilization which is urgently needed to effect the transition within two or three years from a culture of war to a culture of peace demands co-operation from everyone. In order to change, the world needs everyone.”

“There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.”

World Two Justice Quality Opinion Hair Diversity Universal Social Justice Grain Inspirational Diversity Great Diversity Diversity Of Life

Book:Essays of Montaigne

Source: Essays of Montaigne

“Indeed, nothing more beautifully simplifying has ever happened in the history of science than the whole series of discoveries culminating about 1914 which finally brought practically universal acceptance to the theory that the material world contains but two fundamental entities, namely, positive and negative electrons, exactly alike in charge, but differing widely in mass, the positive electron-now usually called a proton-being 1850 times heavier than the negative, now usually called simply the electron.”

“Thus there are two books from whence I collect my Divinity; besides that written one of God, another of his servant Nature, that universal and public Manuscript, that lies expans'd unto the eyes of all; those that never saw him in the one, have discovered him in the other.”

Two Book Eye Lying Nature Saws Written Universal Servant Divinity Manuscripts

Author:Thomas Browne

“I like to start off my day with a glass of champagne...I like to wind it up with a glass of champagne, too. To be frank, I also like a glass or two in between. It may not be the universal medicine for every disease, as my friends in Reims and Epernay so often tell me, but it does you less harm than any other liquid.”

May Doe Two Wind Disease My Friends Universal Wine Medicine Glasses Harm Frank Liquid Champagne Drinking Champagne

Author:Fernand Point

“But it will be found... that one universal law prevails in all these phenomena. Where two portions of the same light arrive in the eye by different routes, either exactly or very nearly in the same direction, the appearance or disappearance of various colours is determined by the greater or less difference in the lengths of the paths.”

Two Different Light Eye Law Science Found Differences Path Greater Universal Various Appearance Determined Colour Length Portions Routes Disappearance Universal Laws

Author:Thomas Young

“To give a causal explanation of an event means to deduce a statement which describes it, using as premises of the deduction one or more universal laws, together with certain singular statements, the initial conditions ... We have thus two different kinds of statement, both of which are necessary ingredients of a complete causal explanation.”

Giving Kind Mean Two Different Together Law Science Certain Causes Conditions Events Universal Statements Explanation Ingredients Different Kinds Initials Premises Deductions Universal Laws

Author:Karl Popper

“In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies - the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.”

Source: Brave New World Revisited

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