- Challenges
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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
- Financial
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the financial system we have today, with less risk concentrated in banks, the probability of systemic financial crises may be lower than in traditional bank-centered financial systems.
- Economic Recovery
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is likely to view any temporary extension of the income tax cuts for the top two percent as a prelude to a long-term or permanent extension, and that would hurt economic recovery as well by undermining confidence that we're prepared to make a commitment today to bring down our future deficits.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
The aspiring tyrants of today have not forgotten the lesson of 1933: that acts of terror - real or fake, provoked or accidental - can provide the occasion to deal a death blow to democracy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.' So that was nice.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today, children are watching more and more television, and are bombarded over and over with images and content that have the potential to dramatically influence their behavior.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today, diabetes is now epidemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health, the American Diabetes Association and other national healthcare leaders.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fairness is not the end result, it's the opportunity. And everybody in America today has the opportunity to get ahead.
- Finance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know how to finance something. It's easier today because, as you're more successful, everybody wants to do deals with you. But even in the beginning, when I took Landry's public, I owned 100 percent of it. I never had investors or anything. I was just always able to find a way to do it.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.
- Thinking
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- Nov 07, 2020
But if we begin thinking about the world being over 100 million years old, then it's absolutely by chance that you and I are sitting here alive today, while all the others are dead or have never been born.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good browser, apps, good camera, and fast networking in your smartphone is just expected today.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is completely a God thing that I am here today because for the first 17 years of my life, I never thought I would ever do music professionally. I'd always liked what my dad did, but I never thought that I wanted to do it, just to be different.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hey, over here! Have your picture taken with a reclusive author! Today only, we'll throw in a free autograph! But wait, there's more!
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020