- People
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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
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.
- Attention
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- Nov 07, 2020
According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot of cool stuff going on in independent film. But obviously, yeah - all the comic-book-franchise stuff is deeply boring. But these comic-book characters are the pagan pantheon of gods in today's contemporary culture. It's so important to so many people.
- Black And White
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kids today don't watch a black and white movie.
- Bottles
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm scared by the enormous amount of bottled water being consumed today, instead of people drinking filtered tap water. Did you know that nearly 90 percent of those plastic bottles are not recycled and wind up in landfills where it takes thousands of years for the plastic to decompose?
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a wide range today of documentaries on politics. The central mass of it is made by networks, and nothing's changed.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is hypertext? It is a method of giving a text more depth, structuring it, and letting the computer help you explore it. Links, like we know today - you see some blue underlined word and you click on it and it takes you somewhere else. That's the simplest definition of hypertext.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today, the growing economic and social pressures in our country are putting millions of women, children and families at increased risk of abuse and neglect, especially when families are denied basic support services and economic opportunity.
- Parenting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times of hope. Of despair and of achievement. I have seen our government at its best, but today I fear that we see our government at its worst.
- Balance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back in those days, in the fifties and sixties, countries had balance of payment's deficits or surpluses, those were reflected much more than today in movements of reserves among countries.
- Group
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- Nov 07, 2020