#universal

With literature, sometimes a book is presented in the media as being say, a Muslim story or an African story, when essentially it's a universal story which we can all relate to it, no matter what race or social background we come from. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#background #being #book #come #essentially

I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#education #historian #i #learned #lifetime

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#beyond #desire #every #income #innate

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick. ↗

— Angela Carter

#confidence #experience #female #human #human experience

Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure. ↗

— Abraham Cowley

#cure #endure #hope #ills #men

I have always felt that this story is universal. When I began to understand the details of the history, I felt that the most compelling aspect was not what happened, but what continues to happen and how it is denied. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#aspect #began #compelling #continues #denied

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

#age #assent #every #formula #reason

The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic. ↗

— Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

#great #logic #mediocre #men #most

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

#hate #i #in the past #liked #made

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

#base #before #constituent #definition #general