"people share a common nature but are trained in gender roles."
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"The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy to be motivated."
"The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential."
"Forbear harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune."
"We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a justification, is to speak up, insofar as we can, for those who cannot do so."
""Love is not altogether a Delirium," says he elsewhere; "yet has it many points in common therewith.""
"Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable."
"I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do."
"Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way. Universal suffrage on a common voters' roll in a united, democratic and non-racial South Africa is the only way to peace and racial harmony."
"There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe."
"Woman reduces us all to the common denominator."
"Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others."
"My husband and I were so closely united by our affection and our common work that we passed nearly all of our time together."
"This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant."
"Your education begins where what is called your education is over. Your fate is but the common lot of all."
"Love is the most common miracle."
"In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity."
"Although NFL teams have common interests such as promoting the NFL brand, they are still separate, profit-making entities, and their interests in licensing team trademarks are not necessarily aligned"
"The common denominator is that we all need help."
"The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature."