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If I have succeeded better than many who surround me, it has been chiefly - may I say almost solely - from universal assiduity.
John Dalton
If I have outdone many of my peers, it has predominantly - perhaps exclusively - been due to unwavering diligence.
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The universal view melts things into a blur.
Emile M. Cioran
The overarching vision blurs distinctions.
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Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment.
Nikola Tesla
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Hope is the most universal of human possessions.
Thales
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Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter.
Zhuangzi
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Potential is universal, opportunity is not.
Wes Moore
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There will be no universal peace until the Prince of Peace appears.
J. C. Ryle
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We are the creators, not only of our own destiny, but ultimately we are the creators of universal destiny. We are the creators of the universe.
John Hagelin
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Classical thermodynamics ... is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced ... will never be overthrown.
Albert Einstein
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Kindness is a universal language regardless of age, nationality or religion.
Alex Ferguson
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Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.
C. S. Lewis
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Once you turn something into something, its universal usage is over.
Carl Andre
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God is universal; confined to no spot, defined by no dogma, appropriated by no sect.
Mary Baker Eddy
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Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient.
Plato
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Empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble.
Simon Baron-Cohen
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The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.
Julian Barnes
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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
O. Henry
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In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.
Abbas Kiarostami
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The universe itself is God and the universal outpouring of its soul.
Chrysippus
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Swallow the stars until you are one with the universe, with all-pervading universal life.
Soen Nakagawa
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I think people are universal.
Ang Lee
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Money is a stupid measure of achievement, but unfortunately it is the only universal measure we have.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
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It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
Sam Harris
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If there is a true universal mind, must it be sane?
Charles Fort
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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.
Linda Ronstadt
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Quotation is more universal and more ancient than one would perhaps believe.
James Boswell
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We Germans are the most universal, the most European people of Europe.
Moses Hess
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It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.
Kenneth Lee Pike
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There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.
B.K.S. Iyengar
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Each of us has a universal within us. There's always that making of parts - but it doesn't touch the universal within you.
Milton Resnick
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Only one flagFlies above all the rest:The flag of universal oneness.
Sri Chinmoy
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It is not male hatred of women but male fear of women that is the great universal.
Camille Paglia
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I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style - and that's what I do.
Nas
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Of all the arts I think Music has the most mighty, universal, and immediate effect.
Sir Arthur Sullivan
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Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.
Bertrand Russell
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I have to be more universal than my projects, but no less innovative.
Ian Schrager