Common Language

Famous quotes containing the words common and/or language:

    “Nature seems to have taken a particular Care to disseminate her Blessings among the different Regions of the World, with an Eye to this mutual Intercourse and Traffick among Mankind, that the Natives of the several Parts of the Globe might have a kind of Dependance [sic] upon one another, and be united together by their common Interest.”
    —Joseph Addison (1672–1719)

    “Consensus is usually made possible by vague language and shallow commitments.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)