#universal

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. ↗

A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally. ↗

#farce #humor #slapstick #universally #well

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it. ↗

— Walter Pater

#art #attempts #beauty #been #define

Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers. ↗

— Wyclef Jean

#bob #bob marley #break #love #marley

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 not saying that 'Twilight' is, you know, some brilliant Oscar-winner, it's not 'Dr. Zhivago.' It's not trying to be. Because it is a female fantasy. I would argue that it's actually a universal fantasy. Which is, the fantasy being to be loved and cherished for exactly who you are. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#argue #because #being #brilliant #cherished

Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#almighty god #among #efficacious #give #god

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#attainment #consciously #himself #historic #humanity

Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#awareness #called #conceiving #concept #universal

All universal moral principles are idle fancies. ↗