Commonality

By Scott Nesler

If your desire is stagnation, finding an argument which is 180 degrees opposed to yours will help. If your desire is to move your argument in a specified direction, finding a similar argument within 15 degrees of separation is a better pool to recruit from.

In the current climate of today's United States Senate it is rare to find opportunities where both sides can come together and work in the middle to craft a solution for our country's problems. Ted Kennedy, with all of his ideological verbosity and idealism was a rare person who at times could put aside differences and look for common solutions. Not many ever got to see that side of him, but as peers and colleagues we were able to share some of those moments.  -- Orrin G. Hatch (Republican/Conservative Senator of Utah)

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"The Sound of Silence"

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force. -- George Bancroft