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Famous quotes with Be universal

• Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.

  Martin Amis
• You know, there's a saying in art that in order to be universal you must be specific. So I think every artist feels that he is dealing with specific things but that it also has significance universally.

  David Cronenberg
• 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
• It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.

  Henry James Sumner Maine
• Obligations may be universal or particular.

  Tom G. Palmer

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scuttlebutt, scuttlebutt.