Synonyms for common fate
com·mon fate

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1. common fate, law of common fatenoun

   a Gestalt principle of organization holding that aspects of perceptual field that move or function in a similar manner will be perceived as a unit

   Synonyms:
   law of common fate

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1. • Gestalt Law Of Organization

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1. John Philpot Curran:

   It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.

2. Plutarch:

   In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

3. Longfellow:

   Be still sad heart and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining, Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life a little rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.

4. Leonid Brezhnev:

   Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.