Don't you ever orget that in the end, our future is tied to people, that it's more about ideas than a tax.
Interpretation
Our future is shaped by our connections with others and the ideas we share rather than material concerns.
This quote emphasizes the importance of human connections and the shared ideas that bind us. It suggests that while material issues like taxes matter, they are secondary to the relationships we cultivate and the collaborative vision we create for the future. Essentially, our social and intellectual interactions are what truly influence our collective destiny.
In practice
In a community meeting focused on development, this quote can inspire collaboration.
You know, there was a recent poll which said that young people in the generation of the students here felt it was far more likely that they would see a UFO than that they would draw Social Security... It's very important you understand this. Once you understand this, you realize this is not an episode from the X Files, and you're not more likely to see a UFO if you do certain specific things.
When we got organized as a country, [and] wrote a fairly radical Constitution, with a radical Bill of Rights, giving radical amounts of freedom to Americans, it was assumed that Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly...When personal freedom is being abused, you have to move to limit it.
For too long we've been told about 'us' and 'them.' Each and every election we see a new slate of arguments and ads telling us that 'they' are the problem, not 'us.' But there can be no 'them' in America. There's only us.
There is a huge body of business evidence now showing that energy savings give better service at lower cost with higher profit. We have to tear down barriers to successful markets and we have to create incentives to enter them.
Demand that your government pays more attention. It's immoral that people in Africa die like flies of diseases that no one dies of in the United States. And the more disease there is, the more political unrest there will be, leading to more Darfurs, which the U.S. will have to pay to fix.
I was not elected to produce a pile of vetoes.
These are my words; this is their world, a world in which we can wear our gender on our sleeves, unabashedly, as we go about the business of thinking out loud.
I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.
In order for connection to happen, we have to allow ourselves to be seen, really seen.
One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.
At the age of twenty six I am in the condition of an aged person - all my old friends are gone... & my heart fails when I think by how few ties I hold to the world.
I think we will have full marriage rights in Colorado. But in 1992, there was a very hateful Amendment 2 that basically made it legal for any institution to deny gays and lesbians access, whether it's hospitals or restaurants or employment. Anybody could fire you or not let you in a restaurant because you were gay.
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