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Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy. -- Stephen Harper
Once you have a computer that can do a few things - strictly speaking, one that has a certain 'sufficient set' of basic procedures - it can do basically anything any other computer can do. This, loosely, is the basis of the great principle of 'Universality'. -- Richard P. Feynman
Universality has been the key enabler of innovation on the Web and will continue to be so in the future. -- Tim Berners-Lee
Universality of the UN is a worthwhile thing in its own self because it means that every country belongs, feels it has a stake, and participates, rather than going away and finding other methods of conducting international relations. -- Shashi Tharoor
I believe that one of the most sound ideas in dramatic writing is that in order to create the universal, you must pay very great attention to the specific. Universality, I think, emerges from truthful identity of what is. -- Lorraine Hansberry
Universality is the distinguishing mark of genius. There is no such thing as a special genius, a genius for mathematics, or for music, or even for chess, but only a universal genius. The genius is a man who knows everything without having learned it. -- Otto Weininger
There is a universality to comedy. -- Simon Pegg
That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon. -- Tim Berners-Lee
An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences. -- Theodor Adorno
China recognizes and also respects the universality of human rights. We will continue our efforts to promote democracy and the rule of law. -- Hu Jintao
Ultimately, I want to prepare food that will be recognized equally in Tokyo, London, and Paris. I am after that universality, that transcendence. -- Charlie Trotter
I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth. -- Ram Dass
But despite the universality of URLs, we often forget that they're not just a handy way to address network resources. They're also valuable communication tools. -- Jesse James Garrett
The principal role of a logo is to identify, and simplicity is its means... Its effectiveness depends on distinctiveness, visibility, adaptability, memorability, universality, and timelessness. -- Paul Rand
Just as you can accept Miss Marple going to tea with the vicar, there's no reason why Long Island can't have a universality to it. -- Susan Isaacs
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
As a biblical inerrantist, I believe that what the Bible teaches is true and bow to the text, including its teaching about the Flood and its universality. -- William A. Dembski
For all its ubiquity and its universality, war offers the attraction of the extraordinary - the escape from the gray everyday, from the humdrum into higher things. -- Drew Gilpin Faust
The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people, which is best done by fiction. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Touching on universality is an important part of effective storytelling, but the problem with cliches is that they are tired and dull. And that's where writers must try to be artful. -- Miguel Syjuco
The other salient characteristic of the Declaration is its universality: it applies to all human beings without any discrimination whatever; it also applies to all territories, whatever their economic or political regime. -- Rene Cassin
For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty. -- John Cheever
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
There's something about Southern women that is so unique yet so universal. Strong southern women are allowed to be soft and feminine and have a sense of humor. But what I love about Southern women in particular is their universality. -- Connie Britton
I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with a bank being big. In fact, there are some good arguments about universality of geography that in theory, if you have all your eggs in one little community, and some big employer goes out, that could be your downfall. -- Wilbur Ross
The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience. -- F. Sionil Jose
When I write, my goal is to delve deeply enough into the human experience to find a sort of universality. Once you dig down underneath surface differences, we are all human beings. And all human beings want essentially the same things at our core. We want to love and be loved. We want to be safe. We want our loved ones to be safe. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
Simplicity is the essence of universality. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Painting, because of its universality, becomes speculation. -- El Greco
The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth. -- Agnes Repplier
A nation isthe universality of citizens speaking the same tongue. -- Giuseppe Mazzini
The universality of tattooing is a curious subject for speculation. -- James Cook
Everything must be sacrificed, if necessary, for that one sentiment: universality. -- Swami Vivekananda
Creativity is harnessing universality and making it flow through your eyes. -- Peter Koestenbaum
It is indisputable that evolved thinking recognizes the universality of Life. -- Vanna Bonta
One principle is the universality of freedom. I'm a freedom lover. -- George W. Bush
I never give too much thought to the idea of universality. -- Rirkrit Tiravanija
The universality of Islam is not uniformity, it is unity with diversity. -- Tariq Ramadan
True universality does not consist in knowing much but in loving much. -- Jacob Burckhardt
The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality. -- Albert Schweitzer
Everybody underestimated the universality of the concept of a nightmare or a bad dream. -- Robert Englund
The freedom movement is built around the principle of democracy and universality of freedom. -- George W. Bush
I believe in the universality of freedom and therefore want to be involved in the freedom movement. -- George W. Bush
Do not set out to make Mexican art, or American, Chinese, or Russian art. Think in terms of universality. -- Rufino Tamayo
The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect, -- Tim Berners-Lee
He who cries, 'What do I care about universality? I only know what is in me,' does not know even that. -- Cynthia Ozick
Consciousness shakes off the littleness of being and finds the infinite space in which all things have a place. Be in your universality. -- Mooji
What the gears cannot do the computer might. The computer is the Proteus of machines. Its essence is its universality, its power to simulate -- Seymour Papert
To the scientist, the universality of physical laws makes the cosmos a marvelously simple place. By comparison, human nature-the psychologist's domain-is infinitely more daunting. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
One cannot understand... the universality of laws of nature, the relationship of things, without an understanding of mathematics. There is no other way to do it. -- Richard P. Feynman
I want to live out principles that became a part of my life in my 40s, 50s, and 60s. One principle is the universality of freedom. -- George W. Bush
It is the great beauty of true religion that it shall be universal, and a departure in any instance from universality is a corruption of religion itself. -- Joseph Glanvill
Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality -- Gilles Deleuze
We live in a world where great incompatibles co-exist: the human scale and the superhuman scale, stability and mobility, permanence and change, identity and anonymity, comprehensibility and universality. -- Kenzo Tange
Perhaps patriarchy's greatest psychological weapon is simply its universality and longevity. ... Patriarchy has a still more tenacious or powerful hold through its successful habit of passing itself off as nature. -- Kate Millett
Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and love belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality. -- Harry Allen Overstreet
The framework of the artist's ideas is clearly only that which he is forever seeking for universality, and must be far wider than the framework of the ideals of the patriot. -- Sean O Faolain
My very first book was a games collection of Anatoly Karpov. On the whole I was attracted by positonal play with some tactics, and already then I was aiming for universality. -- Vladimir Kramnik
In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false; it is immoral; and it is dangerous. -- Samuel P. Huntington
... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhereand you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth. -- Ellen Glasgow
The novels have done so well because the drawings are abstract, black-and-white. This adds to the universality of the story. "Persepolis" also has dreamlike moments, and the drawings help maintain cohesion and consistency. -- Marjane Satrapi
The properties of executability and universality associated with programming languages can be combined, in a single language, with the well-known properties of mathematical notation which make it such an effective tool of thought. -- Kenneth E. Iverson
It was never the people who complained of the universality of human rights, nor did the people consider human rights as a Western or Northern imposition. It was often their leaders who did so. -- Vaclav Havel
Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, for if we can only admire this thing or that, we maybe use that our cause for liking is of a finite and false nature. -- John Ruskin

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