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He was easy and pleasant to talk to, but on the other hand, I couldn't stand the idea of having so much in common with someone who had such clearly racist views.
I always bring food because when we eat together, it is easier to find what we have in common and make peace together.
Make sure that most of the conversation focuses on what you have in common.
They are powerful reminders that our common humanity has not changed.
So they design communities that incorporate water, fruit trees, flowers and animals into their common spaces on site.
The story we've just relayed is unique, and yet it is so common with sexual violence being a global pandemic.
I've since realized from conversations I've had and from research that this stagnation, despite hard work, turns out to be pretty common.
Language is a tool of common usage, and so I believe it's fundamental that we use it following common criteria.
But I also find it fundamental that those common criteria be as simple as possible, especially because if we simplify our spelling, we're not leveling it down; when spelling is simplified, the quality of the language doesn't suffer at all.
Our current opioid epidemic and the AIDS epidemic tragically have much in common.
And they learned that the most common type of litter were the plastic straw wrappers from their own cafeteria.
And this is common.
I started to think about what makes words real, because a lot of people ask me, the most common thing I got from people is, "Well, are these words made up?
So how do you make the rare common?
It's also a problem because you have to go back to the clinic about every week in order to get more pills, and in sub-Saharan Africa or other places where TB is common, now you're talking about going someplace pretty far, taking tough and slow public transport, maybe the clinic is inefficient.
Some of the toughest stories we hear are actually from women who, in these places where domestic violence can be kind of common, they tell us that they have to hide it from their husbands that they're coming to the clinic.
We may have division and racism and slavery in our past, but we have a common future.
Where can I join a club where I'll have a lot in common with a person who drives a pickup truck because we have a common interest in whatever?
We're living in a world of alternative facts, where people don't find statistics this kind of common ground, this starting point for debate.
Increasingly common medical conditions like obesity, endocrine disorders, C-section and preterm births all can disrupt the underlying biology of lactation.
All of this is part of our common experience, and this shouldn't surprise us, because, after all, biologists have finally proven it to be true, something that philosophers have always dreamt to be true.
But governments have a responsibility to develop counterstrategies to protect us and the common good.
The mistake that governments are making when they collaborate in this way with industry is that they conflate the common good with common ground.
When you collaborate with industry, you necessarily put off the table things that might promote the common good to which industry will not agree.
So our governments should not confound the common good and common ground, especially when common ground means reaching agreement with industry.
But corporations understandably act to promote their commercial interests, and they do so either sometimes undermining or promoting the common good.
But it is the responsibility of governments to protect and promote the common good.
This is because governments are the guardians of public health; governments are the guardians of the environment; and it is governments that are guardians of these essential parts of our common good.
It wasn't until I arrived in graduate school and witnessed firsthand the criminal actions of scientists and engineers in the water crisis in Flint, Michigan that I realized how dangerous and yet surprisingly common this line of thinking really is.
The way that you reach people is by finding common ground.
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