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Quote #1251 - #CollectiveUplift
17 Aug, 2026
COLLECTIVE UPLIFT
"If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself."
Henry Ford
"What's needed is a heart of honey primed by the steel-strong conviction of collective uplift. And I mean collective uplift - that is, the uplift of everybody -- not just the rich, white, christian, straight males - but everybody - the uplift of women, the uplift of the poor, the uplift of the colored, the uplift of the queer, the uplift of each and every person on earth, across the ignorance-induced divisions and discriminations of our prehistoric days."
Abhijit Naskar
HIGH VOLTAGE HABIB: GOSPEL OF UNINDOCTRINATION
"When does a job feel meaningful? Whenever it allows us to generate delight or reduce suffering in others. Though we are often taught to think of ourselves as inherently selfish, the longing to act meaningfully in our work seems just as stubborn a part of our make-up as our appetite for status or money."
Alain de Botton
THE PLEASURES AND SORROWS OF WORK
If there are only two cookies
and one person
takes both of them--
grabs both of them--
that leaves no cookies for anyone else.
But if we make more,
there are more cookies.
Do you make cookies
or just take cookies?
Cookie makers are actually, traditionally,
happier and healthier
than cookie takers.
As long as they're not abused or oppressed
(Henry Ford, Shellen? really?),
cookie makers feel better about themselves
and are more gracious about sharing.
The actual cookie makers
(not the owners of the cookie factory)
feel more successful
than cookie takers,
and what is success anyway?
(Wrote a whole piece on that for Backstage years ago.)
Yes, there are ego and greed and selfishness,
but those all come from fear.
The more cookies we make,
the easier it is to joyfully accept
that everyone should get cookies.
Are we all the same? No.
Are we all perfectly equal,
or even equivalent?
No.
And yet ...
That's what it's about.
The uplift of everyone.
No exceptions.
No exclusions.
No excuses.
Everyone.
Shellen Lubin
August 17, 2026
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