Common ground Quote by David Guymer

“We have to know who we are before we can know what our interests are.”

— Samuel P. Huntington

“...There is no greater dividing force in this world than self-interest…”

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

“We are too focused in our differences to see how much we already share.”

— iMad Black

“Within each of us are two competing sides, a polarity of character. Only one leads to greatness.”

— Lolly Daskal

“Some areas of life are not meant to overlap.”

— Lloyd Jones

“When too many similarities come together, they eventually fall apart.”

— Theheartbrokenone

“Calamities and opportunities all jumbled up together and no sure way to distinguish one from the other.”

— Jeffrey Lent

“The issue is becoming so absorbed in positioning ourselves ahead of everyone else that life becomes nothing more than an endless strategy.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Divergent thinking is that one starts thinking from one point and expands from there to generate more ideas.”

— Pearl Zhu

“You have to look for the things that connect us all. Find the ways our paths cross, our lives intersect, and our hearts collide.”

— Clare Vanderpool

“So, let us not be blind to our differences- but let us also direct our attention to our common interests and to the means…

— John F. Kennedy

“One just has to look at the thing from a perspective that interests you personally.”

— Zadie Smith