#universal

The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#another #apparently #bad #charge #credit

Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life. ↗

— Akhenaton

#give #guide #hear #heart #heed

There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#hatred #human #human soul #persistent #soul

It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#component #distinguishes #factor #genetic #grammar

Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures. ↗

— Alex Cox

#career #doing #hollywood #negative #pickup

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#being #completeness #course #desire #even

As we have always seen here in the U.S. the universal truth about elections is that people vote their pocketbook. ↗

— Jennifer Dunn

#always #elections #here #people #pocketbook

I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal. ↗

— Christopher Eccleston

#i #i think #love #obviously #parentage

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. ↗

— George Eliot

#declared #election #foxes #interest #lives

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

— Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

#great #logic #mediocre #men #most