#common

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. ↗

— Barbara Deming

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Although NFL teams have common interests such as promoting the NFL brand, they are still separate, profit-making entities, and their interests in licensing team trademarks are not necessarily aligned. ↗

— John Paul Stevens

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To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success. ↗

— Henry J. Heinz

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All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare. ↗

— Friedrich List

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The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else. ↗

— Martin Luther

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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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