#shared

We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#around #avoid #because #experiences #families

Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits. ↗

— Elizabeth Drew

#democracy #like #limits #relationship #rests

America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#america #been #certain #commitment #commitments

I therefore shared fully the intense chagrin of the New York and other State delegations when, on the third ballot, Abraham Lincoln received a larger vote than Seward. ↗

— Henry Villard

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Happiness is only real when shared. ↗

— Christopher McCandless

#only #real #shared

Mexico and the U.S. are bound not only because of the common border, but by a shared culture and history. ↗

— Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

#border #bound #common #culture #history

I think some of the best reporters are the ones who can really illustrate the differences between societies, at the same time trying to connect the fact that there are a lot of shared values in addition to those differences. ↗

— John Pomfret

#best #between #connect #differences #fact

Tonight I should like to thank all those who have shared my work and to acknowledge the debt that I owe to my wife whose encouragement to put research before all other things has been a great strength to me. ↗

— George Porter

#been #before #debt #encouragement #great

Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened. ↗

— Spider Robinson

#joy #lessened #pain #shared

It wasn't that I got pinned against my locker, but I was intensely aware that the things I valued weren't shared by anyone. Girls didn't like me, and I had few friends. ↗

— Josh Groban

#anyone #aware #few #friends #got