{"quotes":[{"text":"We must seek together to address the good aspirations of people everywhere, for we are bound together through great commonality.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["aspiration","commonality","destiny","hope"],"id":11638,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"Some want, to be exempt. They do not want to excel, they do not want to exert. They want to be considered excellent, for desiring to be held exempt, from all accountability.","author":"Justin K. McFarlane Beau","tags":["accountability","accountable","commonality","commonplace","desire","excellence","exempt","exemption","exert","exertion","lethargy","normalcy","weakness"],"id":79636,"author_id":"Justin+K.+McFarlane+Beau"},{"text":"Someday find my son...Tell him about how things can be between men on this Earth.'--A Letter to Jesse Owens.","author":"Luz Long","tags":["athletics","commonality","friendship","humanity","inspirational","respect"],"id":96956,"author_id":"Luz+Long"},{"text":"Uncommon success is found on the spiritual plane; you can't get there through common convention or following others. Hard work is not enough; many work slavishly-hard for little reward. Intelligence is insufficient; how many educated and brilliant people there are who fail utterly and completely. Goodness is not enough; how many meek and good souls are tilled into the earth like manure by demigods to fertilize their golden crops. There is something more — it is the unseen essential, and everyone has access to it.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["accessibility","brilliance","commonality","completeness","education","failure","fertilize","gold","goodness","insufficiency","intelligence","meekness","rewarding","slavishly","soul","spirituality","success","unseen","work"],"id":122216,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"As sensory experience junkies, we have been blinded to the majesty in the common.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["blindness","commonality","experience","majestic"],"id":168027,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"Each man is an island unto himself. But though a sea of difference may divide us, an entire world of commonality lies beneath.","author":"James Rozoff","tags":["commonality","difference","differences","division","divisiveness","individualism","unity","universal"],"id":217253,"author_id":"James+Rozoff"},{"text":"The essence of diversity is the individual's experience of it. Diversity is about personalised shades of experience emanating from universal colours of humanity, but each person takes from the universal what is relevant to them and alters it by their own interpersonal experience.","author":"Camila Batmanghelidjh","tags":["collectivism","commonality","difference","diversity","individualism","universality"],"id":227172,"author_id":"Camila+Batmanghelidjh"},{"text":"By acknowledging and accepting the ultimate commonality, we can naturally and voluntarily develop the attitude of compassion and benevolence toward other people, other life-forms, and all beings. We will want to live for the good of all because we know that's the way we benefit ourselves, too.","author":"Ilchi Lee","tags":["benevolence","commonality","community","inspirational-attitude","vision"],"id":227403,"author_id":"Ilchi+Lee"},{"text":"Hopefully, someday we will both realize that despite our sharp differences, you and I have more in common than we think.","author":"Ray Bourhis","tags":["commonality","human-nature","togetherness"],"id":310416,"author_id":"Ray+Bourhis"},{"text":"Finding beauty in the common is the sign of a gifted mind.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["beauty","commonality","gifts","mind"],"id":359958,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":13,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}