"By mutual respect, understanding and with good will we can find acceptable solutions to any problems which exist or may arise between us."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"We haven't all had the good fortune to be ladies; we haven't all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground—for we have all been babies."

Mark Twain

"Music has a great power for bringing people together."

Ted Turner

"We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike."

Maya Angelou

"We can find common ground only by moving to higher ground."

Jim Wallis

"Our similarities bring us to a common ground; our differences allow us to be fascinated by each other."

Tom Robbins

"We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same."

Anne Frank

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there."

Jalal ad-Din Rumi

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these."

George Washington Carver

"We all come from different paths in life but we can find common ground."

Nanette Mathews

"Touch the earth, speak of love, walk on common ground."

Steven Van Zandt

"It's easy to find reasons for division between people. Finding common ground is harder, but a step towards happiness."

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