The Jewish background is not that far from the black groove. Blacks are downtrodden, Jews are downtrodden, therefore they have something in common in that affliction. Being downtrodden often makes one more empathetic and sympathetic.
Jerry Leiber
BlackMoreJewishSomethingCommon
Death calls ye to the crowd of common men.
James Shirley
MenDeathCrowdCommonCalls
There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.
John Fowles
WorldCreateWhyWriteNeedCommon
To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.
Henry J. Heinz
SuccessWellCommonThingBrings
It's amazing that about 10% of startups couldn't be found on Facebook because they had common names or names that weren't searchable.
Robert Scoble
AmazingNamesFacebookCommonFound
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
EducationPurposePeopleCommon
The euro is our common fate, and Europe is our common future.
Angela Merkel
FutureFateEuropeCommonOurEuro
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
George Sand
LifeLoveHappinessPeopleCommon
Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.
Jean Philippe Rameau
SingingSpeechCommonOriginVerse
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
Friedrich Nietzsche
LieLyingOthersCommonLiesMost
I think India should be our top ally in Asia Pacific. And the two countries have so much in common, including being the largest and most powerful democracies.
John T. Chambers
ThinkPowerfulIndiaTopTwoCommon
We have to be extremely strict on the implementation of Brexit so there is a common approach between member states. We must avoid a sector-by-sector or country-by-country approach, and ask the U.K. to be clear.
Emmanuel Macron
AskImplementationCommonClearMust
Maybe I don't have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.
Stephen Hawking
ThreeKindTwoYearsCommonDisease
Its pretty rare for companies to have a snooping policy, although it is getting more common.
David R. Ellis
MorePolicyRarePrettyCommon
The sophisticates of Java, the traders of Sumatra, the peasants from the outer islands found no common ground. During siesta time from one to five, the Islamic group met separately, the Nationalist group met separately, the Federalist and Unitarians met separately.
Sukarno
TimeGroupGroundCommonFiveFound
Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.
Charles Stuart Calverley
LifeDryCommonReadHeNor
It's common knowledge that most of the guys at Guantanamo are nobodies. Many were turned in by bounty hunters.
Trevor Paglen
KnowledgeCommonMostManyGuys
Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.
Bill Gates
CorruptionCommonAidMostReasons
Tribalism reflects strong ethnic or cultural identities that separate members of one group from another, making them loyal to people like them and suspicious of outsiders, which undermines efforts to forge common cause across groups.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
PeopleStrongGroupForgeCommon
There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements.
William Bligh
PeopleWantClassDegreeCommon
Getting snail mail is one of my favorite indulgences, and I think receiving mail is actually a common joy.
Mary Lambert
JoyThinkMailCommonReceiving
It's called common sense, but it's not common. Most people don't have it.
Theo Paphitis
PeopleCommon SenseCommonSense
There is no common ground between us and Iran.
Mohammad bin Salman
GroundCommon GroundUsCommonIran
It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong.
Saul Kripke
ThinkWrongNiceTheoryCommonOnly
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