Quotes of Universality - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ 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

“ Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy. ”

- Stephen Harper

“ Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ The thesis… is that the advantages of executability and universality found in programming languages can be effectively combined, in a single coherent language, with the advantages offered by mathematical notation. ”

- Ken Iverson
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