“There's no job too big to benefit from a small town person's perspective, I discovered, just as there's no town too small for thinking big.” ThinkingPersonsBigsJobsPerspectiveBenefitsTownsSmall TownThink Big Author:Unita Blackwell
“We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a private emperor a fee for services, as we pay an architect, an engineer, or a lawyer. If any man has talent for righting wrong, for administering difficult affairs, for counselling poor farmers how to turn their estates to good husbandry, for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him in the county- town, or in Court-street, put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor, Mr. Johnson, Working king.” IfsMenGovernmentWould BeAgeTurnsPoliticsEasyDifficultLeadershipPoorPayStreetsTalentKingsBenefitsHundredTownsCourtAffairLawyerBoardsEnterpriseFarmersArchitectEngineersGovernorsEstatesExtensionsJohnsonEmperorCountyFeesCombiningPrivate EnterpriseGood Husband Book:The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations
“People think of taxes as money just being robbed from you. They don't consider the benefits of paying taxes. The benefits that they get and also the benefit of just being a part of a large group of people: a town, or a city, or a country, or a society that allegedly should stand together and all try to help each other.” PeopleThinkingShouldTryingCountryHelpingTogetherCitiesGroupsTaxesBenefitsTownsJust BeingHelping Each OtherLarge GroupsPaying Taxes Author:Michael Schur
“Cincinnati at that time was also beginning to realize it had major cartooning talent in Jim Borgman, at the city's other paper, and I didn't benefit from the comparison.His footsteps seemed like good ones to follow, so I cultivated an interest in politics, and Borgman helped me a lot in learning how to construct an editorial cartoon. Neither of us dreamed I'd end up in the same town on the opposite paper.” EndsInterestRealizingCitiesTalentPaperBenefitsMajorsOppositesTownsComparisonCartoonConstructsFootstepsEditorialsInterest In Politics Author:Bill Watterson
“People always - I think were surprised about me connecting with folks in small town Iowa. And the reason I did was - first of all, I had the benefit that at the time nobody expected me to win. And so I wasn't viewed through this prism of Fox News and conservative media making me scary. At the time, I didn't think seem scary, other than just having a funny name. I seemed young.” PeopleThinkingFirstsReasonSeemsYoungWinningNamesMediaBenefitsNewsTownsFolksConservativeScaryExpectedFoxesSmall TownConnectingIowaFox NewsPrismsFunny Name Author:Barack Obama
“The benefit of an open town hall meeting is one that you get to hear a lot of different views, and two it has credibility.” TwoDifferentViewsBenefitsTownsMeetingsHallsCredibilityDifferent Views Author:John McCain
“I do not believe the picture that some people paint of Scottish towns dependent on welfare. Every time I come here, I meet people who are determined to get into work. Who, with the right help are desperate to get off benefits, support their family and set an example for their children.” PeopleBelieveChildrenHelpingSupportExampleBenefitsTownsPaintDeterminedWelfareDesperateDependentScottish Author:Iain Duncan Smith