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For if one Father is common to us all, and every good thing that can fall to our lot comes from Him, there ought not to be anything separate among us that we are not prepared gladly and wholeheartedly to share with one another, as far as occasion requires.
- John Calvin
The general reason why Christ received baptism was, that he might render full obedience to the Father; and the special reason was, that he might consecrate baptism in his own body, that we might have it in common with him.
- John Calvin
Elections are always a little bit funny. People start saying things and emphasizing differences. After the election, my hope is, is that people start emphasizing what we have in common.
- Barack Obama
Above all I hope that the education of the common people will be attended to so they won't forget the basic principles of freedom.
- Thomas Jefferson
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
- Edith Wharton
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
- Aldous Huxley
The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.
- William Hazlitt
The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.
- William Hazlitt
My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.
- Woodrow Wilson
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
- George Bernard Shaw
Jesus doesn't divide the world up into the common and the sacred; he gives us eyes to see the sacred in the common.
- Rob Bell
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 our common security and common humanity.
- Barack Obama