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"It is incorrect to classify the revolt of the Negro as simply a radical conflict of black against white or as a purely American problem. Rather, we are today seeing a global rebellion of the oppressed against the oppressor, the exploited against the exploiter."
"Education, as conceived today, is something separated both from biological and social life."
"Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place."
"The same relation exists between merchant and pirate, who for a long period are one and the same person: where the one function appears to them inadvisable, they exercise the other."
"Your job today is to pass gas. You do that and we can start feeding you liquids. No fart, no food."
"Learn from the past and let it go. Live in today."
"Today is the only time we can possibly live."
"I would say that love today is a relatively rare phenomenon, that we have a great deal of sentimentality; we have a great deal of illusion about love, namely as a... as something one falls in."
"The condition of the world today is such that most writers feel they cannot truthfully be "comic" about it."
"The problems of today can only be solved at a higher level of thinking than that which created them"
"If you went to your closet today, would you pull out the same outfit you wore 10 or 15 years ago? You wear feelings and faith differently as well."
"[International law] doesn't show what the Constitution originally meant, and it doesn't show what is fundamentally important to Americans today. It shows what's fundamentally important to somebody else today."
"Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens."
"In the world today, only a philosophy of eternity could justify non-violence."
"Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow."
"A woman can do anything a man can do today and then some. She can even have a child without a man."
"It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge of what energy is"
"Rash indeed is he who reckons on tomorrow, or happily on the days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past."
"Today, rather than looking for the worst in people, I encourage you to look for what's best within them."
"Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society."
