- Disclosure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today Quotes
What today decides for tomorrow.
This page connects present-day choices to long-term consequences, whether in communication security policy or the shifting economics of building a sports team. For present-moment reflections, see Life.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Social Security is something that we need to deal with, because people who are working today, who will retire in the future, people who are retired today, they have a right - and it's part of the compact that they can depend on their benefits. We should fix the long-term funding problem of Social Security because that's the right thing to do.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always prided myself on if, hypothetically, the entertainment industry just dissolved, just went away today, I feel that I have enough marketable skills that I could still contribute to society and make a difference. I'm a very good typist.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today, people tend to credit me with having the original idea and made the first circuits.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people understand life expectancy has changed since Social Security started in 1937 when folks lived to be 59 years old. Today, they live to be 77 years old.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had lived all of my youthful dreams, but I couldn't think of many adult ones. I finally realized that we don't have many dreams for adults because, historically, people have always died much younger than they do today.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Twitter was around communication and visualizing what was happening in the world in real-time. Square was allowing everyone to accept the form of payment people have in their pocket today, which is a credit card.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The interesting products out on the Internet today are not building new technologies. They're combining technologies. Instagram, for instance: Photos plus geolocation plus filters. Foursquare: restaurant reviews plus check-ins plus geo.
- Half The Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
My general philosophy of playing bad guys, which I've sort of done, you know, half the time is, you know, very few people who we view as bad guys get out of bed and think, 'What evil, terrible thing am I going to do today?' Most people see their motivations as justified - as, you know, justifying whatever they do.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020