Common Ground Quotes - Page 2

• Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Responsibility, Government, People

  "Exclusive: Speaker Nancy Pelosi Says She Has 'No Regrets'" by Ray Sanchez, abcnews.go.com. November 3, 2010.

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• To neglect the common ground with other primates, and to deny the evolutionary roots of human morality, would be like arriving at the top of a tower to declare that the rest of the building is irrelevant, that the precious concept of "tower" ought to be reserved for the summit.

  Frans de Waal

  Roots, Arriving, Would Be

  Frans de Waal (2009). “Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved”, p.181, Princeton University Press

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• To be able to influence someone or to be able to have a group of guys come together to have a successful team and to be together all the time every day for, you know, a year and longer together, you have to have a - find a common ground. And that common ground for us is football.

  Tim Tebow

  Football, Team, Successful

  "Tim Tebow Discusses Faith and Football in the No Spin Zone". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. June 3, 2011.

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• There is nothing wrong with our country, there is something wrong with our politics...When this country is operating off a common ground, nobody can stop us. But when we're divided, then we end up having a whole lot of self-inflicted problems.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Self, Common

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• We need to seek wise leaders who will seek common ground among Americans instead of dividing us further for political gain. As citizens, we must embrace those who embrace ideas, thoughtfulness, civility and kindness to others no matter what their political beliefs.

  James McGreevey

  Wise, Kindness, Ideas

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• Astronomers have a common ground for discussion with musicians in the harmony of the stars and musical concords in tetrads and triads of the fourth and the fifth, and with geometricians in the subject of vision; and in all other sciences many points, perhaps all, are common so far as the discussion of them is concerned. But the actual undertaking of works which are brought to perfection by the hand and its manipulation is the function of those who have been specially trained to deal with a single art.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Art, Stars, Hands

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter I, Section 16,

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• If you go deep enough into any faith tradition, you find the common ground with all faith traditions.

  Martin E. Marty

  Common, Tradition, Enough

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• There's a tendency in politics to attribute bad motivation much too quickly, and the sooner you attribute bad motivation to someone you disagree with, the harder it is to find some common ground to make some progress that would give people confidence that you got it more right than wrong.

  Peter Welch

  Motivation, People, Giving

  "Peter Welch rises as liberal voice of reason". www.politico.com.

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• Why cannot we work at cooperative schemes and search for the common ground binding all mankind together?

  William O. Douglas

  Together, Common, Schemes

  WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS (1970). “POINTS OF REBELLION”

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• There really is confusion out there. Finding common ground sounds good. But the reality is, a lot of people on all sides have a stake in the fight.

  Charles Haynes

  Fighting, Reality, People

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• This was our common ground, the secret we shared but never spoke aloud. I should have been with him; she should have left him alone. Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.

  Sarah Dessen

  Past, Should Have, Secret

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.19, Penguin

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• If a hero must have an unmarked grave, it should at least be close to where his comrades fell." "Comrades?" "One way or another we all fight for the things we believe in. Doesn't that give us some common ground?

  Tom Clancy

  Believe, Hero, Fighting

  Tom Clancy (2010). “Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan”, p.2366, Penguin

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• As they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion... Although just as in hostage negotiations, it's probably best to keep both sides talking to each other.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Talking, Sides, Spirituality

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We can find common ground only by moving to higher ground.

  Jim Wallis

  God, Moving, Higher Ground

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• Love of animals is a universal impulse, a common ground on which all of us may meet. By loving and understanding animals, perhaps we humans shall come to understand each other.

  Louis J. Camuti

  Love, Animal, Understanding

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• If I talk to black students on campus, they're not sympathetic to the people who are not sympathetic with [Black Lives Matter movement]. The fact that you want to argue rather than find some common ground, I think, has gotten a lot worse in the last years.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Thinking, Years, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Anyway, stories bring us together to find common ground, to find our way through life together, or just to entertain us, and I am just thrilled to be a part of that process.

  Dorothea Benton Frank

  Together, Stories, Way

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• I will always stand firm to protect the sanctity of marriage. I believe it is important to work with people to find common ground on difficult issues.

  George W. Bush

  Faith, Believe, Issues

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• Some of us believe humanity should be in divine partnership with nature, some people believe that man has been given by God the right to have dominion over nature. But since even they say that we should be good stewards, that right there should be the common ground.

  Marianne Williamson

  Believe, Men, People

  Interview with John Robbins, foodrevolution.org. January 1, 2013.

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• We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own turf in order to create this common ground.

  Hillary Clinton

  Giving Up, Order, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• A lot of people manage to find common ground and not let disagreements or tensions build up and destroy them, and other people break up or get divorced. I don't think anything is ever going to change that situation. You simply try to find an accommodation and an understanding with another person and work from there.

  Jack Nicholson

  Thinking, People, Understanding

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• Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.

  Wendell Berry

  Inspirational, Courage, Travel

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• Compassion gives us a common ground to stand on regardless of your faith background. It gives us a chance to stand shoulder-to-shoulder rather than go fist-to-fist with somebody.

  Max Lucado

  Compassion, Giving, Fists

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We want to achieve a stable, peaceful world with less conflict and more common ground.

  Donald Trump

  Peaceful, World, Want

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• As president, I will take that work, that bipartisan work, that finding common ground, because you have to be able to get along with people to get things done in Washington.

  Hillary Clinton

  People, President, Done

  "Transcript of the Second Debate". www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2016.

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