#universal

It should seem, then, that the nature of society dictates another, a higher branch, whose superiority arises from its being the interested and natural conservator of the universal interest. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

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It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

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Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them. ↗

— Ang Lee

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Since hydrogen is a constituent of most of our electrolytic solvents, the definition of an acid or base as a substance which gives up or takes up hydrogen ion would be more general than the one we used before, but it would not be universal. ↗

— Gilbert Newton Lewis

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I enjoy learning about different periods and people, and then taking what's universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are, certain things unite everybody. ↗

— Laura Linney

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Music is the universal language of mankind. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn. ↗

— Catharine MacKinnon

#ask #dawn #dogma #essential #going

The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our education system, or are we bold enough to see what's actually happening to our culture? ↗

— Hugh Mackay

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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. ↗

— James Madison

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