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Quotes About Commonality

I'm like everybody else. I get tired sometimes.
~ Donny Osmond
It's funny, 99% of the time, haters and the 1 they hate on have everything in common and could be best friends.
~ Behdad Sami
Human nature appears to be just the same, all over the world
~ Mark Twain
Emperors, kings, artisians, peasens, big people---at the bottom we are all alike and all the same; all just alike on the inside, and when our clothes are off, nobody can tell which of us is which.
~ Mark Twain
Human nature is all alike.
~ Mark Twain
We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground - for we have all been babies.
~ Mark Twain
El odio, como el amor, solo florece donde hay algo en común, donde existe un común denominador.
~ Arthur Koestler
Phil. Look what you are doing! When you say, I—I—I want to exist you alone do not say this, but everything, absolutely everything, that has only a vestige of consciousness. Consequently this desire of yours is just that which is not individual but which is common to all without distinction.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries. Nor do the reservoirs of our ancient power know these boundaries. To deal with one without even alluding to the other is to distort our commonality as well as our difference. For then beyond sisterhood is still racism.
~ Audre Lorde
The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those differences. Nor do the reservoirs of our ancient power know these boundaries. To deal with one without even alluding to the other is to distort our commonality a well as our difference. For then beyond sisterhood is still racism.
~ Audre Lorde
My, my jeste?my pospolici, jeste?my traw? wszech?wiata i szczycimy si? t? nasz? pospolito?ci?, ?e taka powszechna, i my?leli?my, ?e wszystko mo?na w niej pomie?ci?.
~ Stanis?aw Lem
Most of us care about one another. Human beings have considerably more in common with one another than they do differences. One's religion, political persuasion, family, financial and social status, or vocation does not hamper the common thread of personal decency running through most of humankind.
~ Jon Huntsman
To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.
~ Eric Hoffer
Q: What do peanut butter and hookers have in common? A: Both spread for bread.
~ Beilenson Evelyn
Human beings are human beings, regardless of what makes us different.
~ Justin Prentice
If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA. I think it's fascinating.
~ Henry Louis Gates
People have the same issues wherever they come from. Schools. Hospitals.
~ Kemi Badenoch
Brits and Australians have a similar sense of humour, obviously because of our links. It's more sort of jibbing and doesn't take itself too seriously.
~ Kris Marshall
I didn't think the worlds of theater and basketball intersected. I thought the Venn diagram would be one person: me. As it turns out, there are a few of us.
~ Daryl Morey
Individual lives remind us that there is something called a common humanity and that, over the centuries, there have been people who have lived and breathed and sometimes worried about very different things and sometimes worried about the same things we do.
~ Margaret MacMillan
Some of the worst violence in the world today between estranged religious and ethnic groups happens not on the battlefields. It happens smack in the middle of living rooms and between people who share a lot, who have a lot in common.
~ Miroslav Volf
Believe it or not, that was the first time I recognized that in some ways she was just like the rest of us.
~ Nicholas Sparks
The one thing we all have in common is that we're human. Why pay more attention to the things that make us different over the things that bring us together?
~ T.I.
I want to write something so simply about love or about pain that even as you are reading you feel it and as you read you keep feeling it and though it be my story it will be common, though it be singular it will be known to you so that by the end you will think— no, you will realize— that it was all the while yourself arranging the words, that it was all the time words that you yourself, out of your heart had been saying.
~ Mary Oliver