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Quotes About Commonality

One smell of brimstone makes the whole world kin.
~ George Ade
We are so fond of each other because our ailments are the same.
~ Jonathan Swift
What's so interesting to me about history is - what's interesting to anyone - is how humans are the same. Their belief systems were so different. They had different metaphysical truths than we do. And yet we're the same.
~ Robert Eggers
The concept of evolution postulates that living organisms have common roots, and in turn, the existence of common features is powerful support for the concept of evolution.
~ Hans Adolf Krebs
Life sure is easier when you're rich." "And a natural born charmer. Don't forget that part." "How could I?" she retorted. "It's the only thing we have in common.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
We all go through the same things - it's just a different kind of the same thing
~ Susan Glaspell
We all go through the same things—it's all just a different kind of the same thing!
~ Susan Glaspell
There's an intelligent redneck in all of us somewhere.
~ Rodney Atkins
Who was Col. Sussex? Just some guy who had to shit like the rest of us.
~ Charles Bukowski
All mothers go through the exact same things.
~ Angie Harmon
Identity of interests is the surest of bonds whether between states or individuals.
~ Thucydides
We have Not one In common No two Are shaped alike The third Because of that eye we lack In the fourth Direction there is hope The fifth Is at the heart -Orihime Inoue
~ Tite Kubo
What's funny about opposites be that wet and dry both has water, boy and girl be about people, Heaven and Hell be the places you go when you die. They all has something in common. So they an't completely different from each other the way people think. Having the one don't mean t'other be gone.
~ Tracy Chevalier
When two beings want the same thing, they can communicate. And when two beings want the same thing that neither can attain on their own, they can connect. A want held in common weaves life into one network, a worldwide web of feeling.
~ Kevin Behan
But the whole thing with new people, aliens or not, is that you can't go in just looking at the ways you are different and decide you'll never get along. You have to look for the ways you are the same. They can be hard to find but they are almost always there. And once you find a little common ground, that's how you get to know each other better. We just discovered a new alien species.
~ Kirsten Beyer
I know all about mirroring, Beck. One of the best ways to get someone to trust you is to focus on what you have in common.
~ Caroline Kepnes
We look up at the same stars and see such different things.
~ George R.R. Martin
From the tiniest grain of sand to the brain of an Einstein, all existence, animate and inanimate, is the product of the same ninety-two elements that are themselves the harvest of the energy of the creation. At every turn an underlying commonality, a unity, emerges from within the diversity.
~ Gerald Schroeder
Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
~ Blaise Pascal
No Last Meal for you guys, either. Guess we have that in common." Someone bust out the pom-poms and cheer for the team. Yay.
~ J.R. Ward
The thing was, they had something in common, something that crossed species lines and eclipsed social stratifications and bonded them together even though she would have denied it. She was lonely, too, and in the same way he was.
~ J.R. Ward
We are not humans because we've invented a different type of brain cell, a different type of brain chemical. We are the same basic building blocks as even a fruit fly.
~ Robert Sapolsky
What I've been surprised by is not how different people are, but how similar they are. There are certain types of Airbnb people, and they are in every city in the world - it's just that in some cultures, there is more of a generational divide.
~ Brian Chesky
I refuse to believe this rhetoric that the Labour party can't get under one big umbrella with a common enemy - sometimes a common enemy is an absolutely delightful unifier.
~ Jess Phillips