Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

Sometimes, we find common ground; more often, we don't.

In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good.

Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.

There is a common ground upon which all sincere votaries of truth may meet, exchanging with each other the language of Flamsteed's appeal to Newton, "The works of the Eternal Providence will be better understood through your labors and mine.