Our Common Quotes
154 quotes by 134 authors
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The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
— Jane Addams
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Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.
— Hillary Clinton
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Is the Son of God praying in me, or am I dictating to Him?... Prayer is not simply getting things from God, that is a…
— Oswald Chambers
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The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common goal is to…
— Malcolm X
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Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and…
— Jimmy Carter
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Let us learn to accept ourselves-accept the truth that we are capable in some directions and limited in others, that genius is rare, that mediocrity…
— Joshua L. Liebman
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No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left.…
— Charles Lamb
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To clink glasses of a freshly made, seasonal beer, preferably in a pub or garden, with friends and perhaps new acquaintances, is a ritual that…
— Michael Jackson
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Once you experience Third World poverty, you're really changed forever, if you're at all open to it, because we're all united in our common humanity.…
— Martin Sheen
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In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been developing itself. The…
— Thomas Carlyle
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A Senegalese poet said 'In the end we will conserve only what we love. We love only what we understand, and we will understand only…
— Yo-Yo Ma
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That which you or I think is most unique about ourselves we hide. In ordinary discourse, in the normal state, we share our common self,…
— Robert E. Quinn
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Whatever system of governance is eventually adopted, it is important that it carries the people with it. We need to convey the message that safeguarding…
— Joseph Rotblat
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Men invent means and methods of coming at God''s love, they learn rules and set up devices to remind them of that love, and it…
— Brother Lawrence
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Energy will be the immediate test of our ability to unite this Nation, and it can also be the standard around which we rally. On…
— Jimmy Carter
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This is American leadership at its best. We stand with people who fight for their own freedom, and we rally other nations on behalf of…
— Barack Obama
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The ghostly presence of virtual particles defies rational common sense and is nonintuitive for those unacquainted with physics. Religious belief in God, and Christian belief…
— Antony Hewish
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Niepokalanow is a home like Nazareth. The Father is God the Father, the mother and mistress of the home is the Immaculata, the firstborn son…
— Maximilian Kolbe
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Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us…
— Leonid Brezhnev
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All of our deeply held dreams and aspirations require us to build on our common bonds.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
Who Wrote These Our Common Quotes
134 authors contributed a total of 154 Our Common Quotes, led by these top contributors: