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  • The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.

    Peace   Real   Diversity  
  • Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.

    "The Ivory and the Horn: A Newford Collection". Book by Charles de Lint, 1995.
  • A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.

    "The age of indifference" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2010.
  • The commonality in the human experience is the same. We have the same sorrows, and the same triumphs. Joy is joy is joy.

    Joy   Sorrow   Triumph  
  • I think there is a lot of continuity between the Jewish and the Islamic traditions. We know this historically, though people don't want to talk about that - especially Muslims. There is a common source for both Judaism and Islam, or let's say that Islam finds its source in Judaism. The commonalities of practice and sensibility, ethos and mythos, create a lot of overlap.

    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • One should not focus on the differences between people but look for commonality and similarity.

  • When I say that there's commonality, I mean more in terms of the sort of techniques by which we perceive Baroque and minimalist music rather than the techniques used to compose them. I know that's being sort of overly complicated.

    "How To Annoy Your Dad: Play The Harpsichord". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.
  • While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

    Speech at trial, Cleveland, Ohio, 14 Sept. 1918
  • We are way more powerful when we turn to each other and not on each other, when we celebrate our diversity, focus on our commonality, and together tear down the mighty walls of injustice.

  • There is something desperately lonely about Barack Obama's universe. One gets the overwhelming sense of someone yearning for connection, for something that binds human beings together, for community and commonality, for what he repeatedly calls "the common good". This is hardly news.

  • Latinos have not historically been a culture that unites easily. We're very factioned - you have your Mexican Americans, your Puerto Ricans, your Cuban Americans, your Central Americans - and sometimes we focus on the differences more than the commonalities.

    Mexican   Focus   Culture  
    Source: www.glamour.com
  • Even though we all might have differences, there's commonality in the sense [that] people are hard-working, people want to raise a family, people want to put a roof over their head, people want to put food on their table, people want good things for their children.

    Source: www.mtv.com
  • People generally overestimate how distinct their lives are, so the commonalities seemed to them like a series of miracles.

    People   Miracle   Series  
    David Brooks (2011). “The Social Animal: A Story of How Success Happens”, p.21, Short Books
  • Creativity is a challenge. It requires us to be fully human -- autonomous yet engaged, independent yet interdependent. Creativity bridges the conflict between our individualistic and our sociality. It celebrates the commonality of our species while simultaneously setting us apart as unique individuals.

  • Some friendships are formed by a commonality of interests and ideas: you both love judo or camping or making your own sausage. Other friendships are forged in alliance against a common enemy.

    Ideas   Enemy   Camping  
    "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim". Book by David Sedaris, June 1, 2004.
  • I realized that an artist seeking to tell the truth in her art takes great courage. I recognize the courage required to bring children together from Israeli and Palestinian communities to find commonality in music as a very powerful and effective beginning towards Peace.

    Art   Children   Powerful  
  • There is the sky, which is all men's together.

    Nature   Men   Sky  
    Euripides (2013). “Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes”, p.59, University of Chicago Press
  • I don't want to think too much about how I'm carving and what I'm carving - you are just carving away the excess clay and there's a piece underneath there. And it's kind of like getting out of the way. Maybe that's what the commonality is: It's getting out of the way so that the art can speak.

    Art   Thinking   Clay  
    Interview with Katherine Cusumano, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.
  • Observations,” he says. “Four imperial Unseelie guards were the only commonality I was able to isolate endemic to both scenes.” They’d been standing, armed, at the dock doors, overseeing the delivery. He gives me a sidewise look. “Wow. That was, like, a whole sentence. With nouns and verbs and connective tissue. Endemic. Fancy word.

    Doors   Giving   Verbs  
    Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Iced: Fever Series”, p.89, Delacorte Press
  • What's great about art is that if you can reach people, if they hear or see what you do and it moves them, there's a commonality.

    Art   Moving   People  
  • No two wars are ever the same. Some are just, some are unjust, but the basic commonality shared between them all is that young men and women heeded a call to service, overcame their fear, and fought for their side

    War   Men   Two  
  • If you're a song writer, it's a bit different because you are expressing your own words, feelings, perspective. As an actor, you are doing your best to interpret and express the root of the character's perspective which have been established by the writer. There are parallels of performing. Tapping into your own emotional piggy bank. The biggest commonality is if you are successful in either industry, you get free snacks all the time.

  • None of us are any better than anyone else and none of us are any worse than anyone else, and we're all equal and whatever we can do to celebrate our commonality rather than our differences, which is what religion does, to me... religion just compartmentalizes people and makes everybody into a box.

    Source: variety.com
  • The first thing we should be concerned about the BLM movement should be the issues that the Black Lives Matter movement is bringing forward. There's no fundamental platform being brought by activists in Oakland, Baltimore, or New Jersey. The main issues that you see, the commonality between activists all around the country, are trying to deal with the challenges in the criminal justice system, something that is very much central to my work. So my hope is that people stay focused on the urgency to create justice here at home.

    Country   Home   Oakland  
    "Jewish Insider's Daily Kickoff". Jewish Insider Interview, www.haaretz.com. August 30, 2016.
  • There is behavioral ecology, which looks closely at the difference different ecologies make to behavior and other features of animals and humans. There's evolutionary individual psychology, there's evolutionary social psychology. In Darwin's terms, evolution couldn't exist without variation, and variation is important in behavioral genetics. And so on, and so on. There are so many instances in which evolution actually sharpens the precision, I think, with which one can find out the importance of differences. We're interested in differences as well as commonalities.

    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • In India we celebrate the commonality of major differences; we are a land of belonging rather than of blood.

    Shashi Tharoor (2005). “Bookless In Baghdad”, p.102, Penguin Books India
  • Music and text have several commonalities, and one is meter and rhythm. Both spoken word and music have certain regularities, and they can be sub-divided rhythmically.

    Source: www.theobjectivestandard.com
  • Planetary democracy does not yet exist but our global civilization is already preparing a place for it. It is the very Earth we inhabit linked with Heaven above us. Only in this setting can the mutuality and the commonality of the human race be newly created with reverence and gratitude for that which transcends each of us and all of us together.

  • I want to break into the acting industry. It's something I have a great deal of respect for; it's a passion of mine. It's so amazing, the differences between acting and being an athlete, but the one commonality is they both evoke emotion in the viewer. And those emotions are real. So I think that's pretty cool.

    Real   Athlete   Passion  
  • Everything is integral and interacts with everything else. This means that nothing is itself without everything else. There is a commonality, an integrity, an intimacy of the universe with itself.

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