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• At least this is the way I see it. I am a physicist. I also consider myself a Christian. As I try to understand the nature of our universe in these two modes of thinking, I see many commonalities and crossovers between science and religion. It seems logical that in the long run the two will even converge.

  Charles Hard Townes

  Christian, Running, Thinking

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• If you want to write something completely unique, you will probably fail or at best write something without redeeming value. The mind works in certain patterns: the mind organizes facts in story form; it is your commonality with that body of human thought that makes a good book, not its estrangement from the common values that humans share.

  Janet Morris

  Book, Writing, Unique

  Interview with Michael A. Ventrella, michaelaventrella.com. May 15, 2012.

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• Nature has provided two great gifts: life and then the diversity of living things, jellyfish and humans, worms and crocodiles. I don't undervalue the investigation of commonalities but can't avoid the conclusion that diversity has been relatively neglected, especially as concerns the brain.

  Theodore Holmes Bullock

  Nature, Science, Two

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• I have been a comic book fan nearly all my life. My fascination began as a refuge after my father left because it was within the stories told in comics that I could find heroes who fought for justice and where outcasts or misfits could find purpose and commonality. But over time I have come to love comics as a medium for its ability to tell stories with tremendous depth and emotion that in some ways go beyond what is possible solely with the written word.

  Andrew Aydin

  Father, Book, Hero

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The common thread in all of my climbing is it was something new, something never done before. That commonality is more important than the discipline.

  Kevin Jorgeson

  Discipline, Important, Done

  Source: www.askmen.com

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• I find myself seeking out the commonalities of our different religious experiences with hopes of encouraging, through my writings, the most hopeful, loving and redemptive qualities in all of us.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Religious, Writing, Hopeful

  Interview with Simon&Schuster, www.simonandschuster.co.uk.

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• None of us are any better than anyone else and none of us are any worse than anyone else, and we're all equal and whatever we can do to celebrate our commonality rather than our differences, which is what religion does, to me... religion just compartmentalizes people and makes everybody into a box.

  Ron Perlman

  Differences, People, Doe

  Source: variety.com

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• Commonality doesn't inoculate against hurt.

  Leslie Jamison

  Hurt

  Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.13, Granta Books

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• ...monetary exchanges have interesting things in common; Gresham's law, if true, says what one of these interesting things is. But what is interesting about monetary exchanges is surely not their commonalities under physical description. A natural kind like a monetary exchange could turn out to be co-extensive with a physical natural kind; but if it did, that would be an accident on a cosmic scale.

  Jerry Fodor

  Knowledge, Law, Interesting

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• art itself shuns commonality: while the scientist may seek the phenomenon that repeats itself, the artist seeks the exception.

  Dore Ashton

  Art, May, Scientist

  Dore Ashton (1976). “A Critical Study of Philip Guston”, p.1, Univ of California Press

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• Running is a simple, primitive act, and therein lays its power. For it is one of the few commonalities left between us as a human race.

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Simple, Race

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• Planetary democracy does not yet exist but our global civilization is already preparing a place for it. It is the very Earth we inhabit linked with Heaven above us. Only in this setting can the mutuality and the commonality of the human race be newly created with reverence and gratitude for that which transcends each of us and all of us together.

  Vaclav Havel

  Gratitude, Race, Civilization

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• Some friendships are formed by a commonality of interests and ideas: you both love judo or camping or making your own sausage. Other friendships are forged in alliance against a common enemy.

  David Sedaris

  Ideas, Enemy, Camping

  "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim". Book by David Sedaris, June 1, 2004.

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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, our superficial self. Yet what is most unique about us is what has the greatest potential for bonding us. When we share our uniqueness, we discover the commonality in greatness that defines everyone on the planet.

  Robert E. Quinn

  Relationship, Unique, Greatness

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• We need to have a paradigm shift in our consciousness. If we don't get our act together and come in commonality and understanding with the organisms that sustain us today, not only will we destroy those organisms, but we will destroy ourselves.

  Paul Stamets

  Understanding, Together, Needs

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• The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Solitude, Wedding Day, Good Marriage

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• We build deep and loving family relationships by doing simple things together, like family dinner and family home evening and by just having fun together. In family relationships love is really spelled t-i-m-e, time. Taking time for each other is the key for harmony at home. We talk with, rather than about, each other. We learn from each other, and we appreciate our differences as well as our commonalities. We establish a divine bond with each other as we approach God together through family prayer, gospel study, and Sunday worship.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Prayer, Fun, Home

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• I have the ordinary experience of having the blender bottom come off in my room upstairs. I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences. What's important is to be able to see yourself, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.

  Harrison Ford

  Airplane, Good Luck, Talking

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. January 20, 2010.

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• Well, I'm not a method actress by any stretch of the imagination so the best thing that I can do is be as real as possible and find whatever commonality in that character that I can see myself.

  Rashida Jones

  Real, Character, Imagination

  "Rashida Jones Interview I LOVE YOU, MAN". Interview with Steve ‘Frosty’ Weintraub, collider.com. March 19, 2009.

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• If you're a song writer, it's a bit different because you are expressing your own words, feelings, perspective. As an actor, you are doing your best to interpret and express the root of the character's perspective which have been established by the writer. There are parallels of performing. Tapping into your own emotional piggy bank. The biggest commonality is if you are successful in either industry, you get free snacks all the time.

  Candice Accola

  Song, Character, Successful

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• She looked out then, through the crowd, and saw Simon with the Lightwoods, looking at her across the empty space that separated them. It was the same way that Jace had looked at her at the manor. It was the one thread that bound these two boys that she loved so much, she thought, their one commonality: They both believed in her even when she didn't believe in herself.

  Cassandra Clare

  Believe, Boys, Two

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1227, Simon and Schuster

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• I want to break into the acting industry. It's something I have a great deal of respect for; it's a passion of mine. It's so amazing, the differences between acting and being an athlete, but the one commonality is they both evoke emotion in the viewer. And those emotions are real. So I think that's pretty cool.

  Apolo Ohno

  Real, Athlete, Passion

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• Observations,” he says. “Four imperial Unseelie guards were the only commonality I was able to isolate endemic to both scenes.” They’d been standing, armed, at the dock doors, overseeing the delivery. He gives me a sidewise look. “Wow. That was, like, a whole sentence. With nouns and verbs and connective tissue. Endemic. Fancy word.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Doors, Giving, Verbs

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Iced: Fever Series”, p.89, Delacorte Press

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• I don't want to think too much about how I'm carving and what I'm carving - you are just carving away the excess clay and there's a piece underneath there. And it's kind of like getting out of the way. Maybe that's what the commonality is: It's getting out of the way so that the art can speak.

  Erykah Badu

  Art, Thinking, Clay

  Interview with Katherine Cusumano, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

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• The first thing we should be concerned about the BLM movement should be the issues that the Black Lives Matter movement is bringing forward. There's no fundamental platform being brought by activists in Oakland, Baltimore, or New Jersey. The main issues that you see, the commonality between activists all around the country, are trying to deal with the challenges in the criminal justice system, something that is very much central to my work. So my hope is that people stay focused on the urgency to create justice here at home.

  Cory Booker

  Country, Home, Oakland

  "Jewish Insider's Daily Kickoff". Jewish Insider Interview, www.haaretz.com. August 30, 2016.

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