"To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead."
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"Ideology today is unfreedom which you sincerely personally experience as freedom."
"Dive today from the cliff of what you know into what you can't know."
"And more importantly, I wouldnt be the person I am today, I wouldnt be where I am now and I may not even have been here if it wasnt for the accident."
"How still, How strangely still The water is today, It is not good For water To be so still that way. ~ "Sea Calm"
"Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today."
"You become what you believe. You are where you are today in your life based on everything you have believed."
"To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages today that determine success--the fortunate birth dates and the happy accidents of history--with a society that provides opportunities for all."
"It is impossible to underestimate the significance of your today's choices"
"Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches."
"Today, the danger of some sort of a nuclear catastrophe is greater than it was during the Cold War, and most people are blissfully unaware of this danger."
"We should try to introduce our children to science today as a rebellion against poverty and ugliness and militarism and economic injustice."
"If I die today, it'd be a holiday"
"Today it is generally accepted that although the earliest humans probably ate some meat, it was unlikely to have played a major role in their diet. Plants would have been a much more important source of food."
"We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming."
"Economics and politics are the governing powers of life today, and that's why everything is so screwy."
"Don't miss out on today by living in yesterday."
"Today I create a stress-free world for myself."
"The great victory, which appears so simple today, was the result of a series of small victories that went unnoticed"
"Any difficulties which the world faces today will be as nothing compared to the full effects which global warming will have on the world-wide economy."