#universal

The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture. ↗

— George Saunders

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Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#branch #general #language #languages #laws

Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#philosophy #true #universal

Believe me, the drug of freedom is universally potent. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#freedom #me #potent #universally

This republic represents the greatest basis for that universal socialist order, the creation of which is at the present time the historic task of the International Proletariat. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

#creation #greatest #historic #international #order

I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but it's plausible that it is. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#computation #computer #digital #fact #i

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

#actually #bold #central #continue #culture

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

#against #charged #danger #home #liberty

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

— James Madison

#against #charged #danger #home #liberty

How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree. ↗

— Maimonides

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