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I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.

Religion has been terribly tarnished in the course of time, its pristine purity has long since vanished under the regime of creed, and it is no longer Catholic, that is to say, Universal.

The ideological distance between Jim Webb and Bertrand Russell can be measured in light years. An author who reaches both of them exerts something like universal appeal.

I'm as deeply suspicious of big government as anyone. I'm strongly in favor of universal coverage but not single payer.

I didn't want to make a literal film about Detroit, because it felt like what they were experiencing was more universal than that.

The power of literature does not lie in resonance with the particular but the way that the particular speaks to a broader, more universal truth.

The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.

Whether that coherence obtains universally is a question that need not be answered here since only those parts where the coherence has actually been found become part of Science.

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.

That man is a religious being, is universally conceded, for it has been seen to be universally true.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, in the enlightened liberal semi-socialist California circles in which I often move, that Uber is evil.

If you want to be universally loved, forget a career in broadcasting. You can't compliment a team without necessarily dissing their opponent.

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

You never think the universe will reward your first choice - it just doesn't work like that.

Security is an attempt to try to make the universe static so that we feel safe.

You know George M. Steinbrenner III is the center of all evil in the universe.

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

Heisenberg, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that science could not solve the mystery of the universe.

For one, thing, the media are dominated by the irreligious. So are universities.

I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.

Free movement of people makes it easier for our universities to attract the best talent.

There are serious and legitimate concerns about academic espionage at our universities.

I had a call to the University of Miami where I'd run a revival in 1950.

But I went to the University of Texas in the 30s, and while there I learned to ride. Mostly polo ponies.