But even more broadly, what we as individuals communicate, wordlessly, in the business and professional world, as well as elsewhere.
Again, the federal government merely exists to secure our freedoms, after which we as individuals are supposed to find individual happiness on our own.
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Socio-biologist Rebecca Costa followed McDonough, and while her presentation style struck this viewer as well over the top, she made the essential point that far from blank slates, we as individuals are the certain genetic result our ancestors.
So in swallowing existing startups that are less eager to navigate the jungle of being public, we as individuals lose for the larger acquirers to varying degrees snuffing out the risky dynamism that characterizes startups, along with startups that eventually go public.
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Just as music and movie companies cannot easily lock down the digital security of their intellectual properties in the great moving tide of bits, we as individuals have lost the lockdown control of our identities that people took for granted 20 years ago.
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But as with any challenge, the outcome is in the response: we as individuals can choose to join the doomsayers, passive bystanders, and despondent fatalists in the comfort of collective complaining, or we can choose to abandon mediocrity, see the silver lining, and act upon the opportunity to build a better future.
We, as individuals and a team, will have that learning the rest of our lives.
These are not easy questions, but the responses we give as individuals and as a society have far-reaching consequences.
With the economy sinking to frightening levels, many of us may be wondering what we, as individuals, can do to help the situation.
Just as they helped shape the country we know and love, so have they shaped each of us into who we are as individuals.
And this is what -- I try to put it in perspective to help people understand just how much power we have as individuals.
It is also a time to recall our personal history of that day, to acknowledge and document what we experienced as individuals, families, friends, colleagues and as communities.
We venture into dangerous waters when as individuals we have an equity line of credit on our house, car payments or credit card debt.
As we encourage individuals to save on their own, we will shore up existing employer-sponsored pensions.
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As they point out less often, we also pay them as individuals, rather than as members of a team working together for their patients.
We continue to urge, as we did yesterday, affected individuals in eligible counties to apply for assistance by visiting www.disasterassistance.gov, or calling 1-800-621-FEMA. That's 1-800-621-3362.
As individuals we trade products for products, so in order to export we must by definition import.
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As we know, individuals are willing to regularly purchase shares in companies without any kind of insurance.
By indentifying them as individuals we can start to understand changes in the survival and movements of bird populations.
On this recent Saturday, however, we were each there as individuals enjoying the ambiance of the museum and its historic building.
"Our problem is we're playing as individuals, " Knicks center Tyson Chandler said.
To see why, consider what life would be like if as individuals we were reliant on ourselves for all that we desire.
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As individuals we're always most careful with our own money, and if our employers require us to pay out of pocket for routine, non-catastrophic care, we'll necessarily use the funds provided more wisely.
As individuals, we just look at the financial results, and seldom query how they came about.
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And I think that same principle, by the way, we can apply to individuals as well.
He also discussed how, as individuals, we need to combine personal knowledge and ideas into an online personality that matches their physical persona.
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As individuals, we grow less and less concerned with seeking facts than seeking what we want to believe or what supports our opinion.
We might cultivate ourselves more as individuals who are part of a community and less as employees who are part of a company.
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