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“Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment and merging of races, and we are still far from this blissful realization.” Nikola Tesla, My Inventions
“Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.” Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy
“God is the same every where.” Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
“The God whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.” William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
“So soon as I talk I express the universal, and if I do not do so, no one can understand me.” Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling
“To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, —that is genius.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
“A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“Stupidity is much the same all the world over.” John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women
“We believe there is a common language that all technical civilizations, no matter how different, must have. That common language is science and mathematics.” Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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