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COMMON GROUND QUOTATIONS
“We haven't all had the good fortune to be ladies; we haven't 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

“At the heart of each of us, whatever our imperfections, there exists a silent pulse of perfect rhythm, which is absolutely individual and unique, and yet which connects us to everything else.”

George Leonard

“Our similarities bring us to a common ground; our differences allow us to be fascinated by each other.”

Tom Robbins

“Music has a great power for bringing people together.”

Ted Turner

“It's easy to find reasons for division between people. Finding common ground is harder, but a step towards happiness.”

Unknown

“We must seek, above all, a world of peace; a world in which peoples dwell together in mutual respect and work together in mutual regard.”

John F. Kennedy

“We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.”

Anne Frank

“Touch the earth, speak of love, walk on common ground.”

Steven Van Zandt

“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.”

George Washington Carver

“If you don't know the guy on the other side of the world, love him anyway because he's just like you. He has the same dreams, the same hopes and fears. It's one world, pal. We're all neighbors. ”

Frank Sinatra

“We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.”

Maya Angelou

“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.”

Chief Seattle

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Your Comments
Larry Fugate from White Hall, Ark. JANUARY 24, 2014
Character and charity pay off for everyone.
Anderson from Colatina, ES - Brasil JULY 10, 2013
Um verdadeiro amigo está perto nos bons e maus momentos, que eu seja e tenha amigos. A true friend is close in good and bad times, and I have to be friends.
Bruce Willingham from Warner Robins, Ga JULY 10, 2012
Being on common ground helps us to move forward in power.
penny from south dakota FEBRUARY 2, 2011
common ground: addictions, homelessness and helping others to recovery...i can relate to all of these...i am blessed
dm from 20005 JUNE 23, 2010
I have a similar story: From small town, to college degrees, addiction, top level executive, to homeless, to ministry and now leading others to recovery.

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