#common

I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time. ↗

— Christopher Fry

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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#common #english #how #much #only

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#best #commonwealth #hedge #married #married men

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#proportion #realised #sense

Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do. ↗

— Marcus Garvey

#done #man #things #whatsoever

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#characteristic #commonplace #hour #impose #itself

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#common man #demands #distinguish #excellent #excellent man

I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#american culture #black #common #culture #dna