- Everyone
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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
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The term 'Xiaokang' is used today to refer to a society where people can receive education, get paid through work, have access to medical services and old-age support, have a shelter and more than enough food and clothing, and lead a well-off life.
- External World
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- Nov 07, 2020
The external world is changing drastically, and enterprises and products will have a short lifecycle if they don't change. So we have to react to market trends. Nothing lasts forever in today's world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today, being the biggest developing countries in the world, China and India are both committed to developing their economy and raising their people's living standards.
- Rather
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are nearly 200 countries and a population of over 6 billion in today's world. International affairs should be addressed by all countries through consultations rather than monopolised by a few powers.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned two basic lessons on Everest. First, just because something has worked in the past does not mean it will work today. Second, different challenges require different mindsets.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Things are more complex today, and I think humor has changed a a great deal. People are more sensitive today.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, biology today as I see it has an amiable look - quite different from the 19th-century view that the whole arrangement of nature is hostile, 'red in tooth and claw.' That came about because people misread Darwin's 'survival of the fittest.'
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Much of today's public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlooking the whole by an endless, obsessive preoccupation with the parts.
- Big Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to thank the fans so much for their support through the years. Even as undeserving as I was, they were a big part of my being able to move forward and put my life back together. They're the greatest. They're the ones who make the stars. For their support throughout my career and today, I love them and thank them.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Songs don't wear out. Good songs are good now. If they were a comfort during those hard times in the past, they'll be a comfort in today's age.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Effort should be made to see that the forum-type programs (the 'Today Show,' 'Meet the Press,' etc.) afford at least as much opportunity for supporters of the American system to participate as these programs do for those who attack it.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020