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There is a universality to comedy.
Simplicity is the essence of universality.
The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
Painting, because of its universality, becomes speculation.
A nation isthe universality of citizens speaking the same tongue.
One principle is the universality of freedom. I'm a freedom lover.
It is indisputable that evolved thinking recognizes the universality of Life.
Everything must be sacrificed, if necessary, for that one sentiment: universality.
Everybody underestimated the universality of the concept of a nightmare or a bad dream.
When I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was so struck by the universality of small towns.
Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy.
That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.
I think what happens with a lot of writing and art is that specificity ends up being relatable while universality becomes vague.
I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.
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.
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.
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.
China recognizes and also respects the universality of human rights. We will continue our efforts to promote democracy and the rule of law.
Ultimately, I want to prepare food that will be recognized equally in Tokyo, London, and Paris. I am after that universality, that transcendence.
An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It's so easy to call something a Jewish story or a gay story or a woman's story. Aesthetically, if a story is not universal, it has failed. Your obligation is to the story. One rule creatively, and emotionally, is its universality.
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'.
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.
We are not living in the same world we were immediately after the Cold War, when there seemed to be a greater belief in the universality of human rights and there was enough prosperity to make us question why we had not committed more resources to upholding the values we claimed to hold most dear.
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.
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.
My own writing has perhaps more of an American flavor than a British one, but that's because the stories I've so far written have needed it. 'Empire State,' 'Seven Wonders' and 'The Age Atomic' are all very place-centric, where the setting itself is almost a character. But there is a universality to story that isn't just limited to science fiction.