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"The national government was itself the creature of the States...Yet today it is often made to appear that the creature, Frankenstein-like, is determined to destroy the creators."
"We ... must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow."
"Past scholars studied to improve themselves; Today's scholars study to impress others."
"Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear."
"You're rich if you've had a meal today."
"Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday."
"You are always free to choose what you do with your life. To make changes in your future, make new choices today."
"The greatest poverty in America today is time poverty. People have money, but they don't have time."
"A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it."
"In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it."
"If I had gone ahead and died ten years ago, I'd probably be a cult figure today."
"It cannot be doubted that in most countries today women, in comparison to men, still remain underprivileged."
"Today we are shapers of the world of tomorrow."
"The era we are living in today is a dream of coming true."
"I never buy anything unless I can fill out on a piece of paper my reasons. I may be wrong, but I would know the answer to that ...I'm paying $32 billion today for the Coca Cola Company because... If you can't answer that question, you shouldn't buy it. If you can answer that question, and you do it a few times, you'll make a lot of money."
"All orthodox opinion - that is, today, "revolutionary" opinion either of the pure or the impure variety - is anti-man."
"The secret of being more vitally alive is to be more aware. Starting today, from this moment, become aware of awareness!"
"Today you will choose your factions. Until this point you have followed your parents’ paths, your parents’ rules. Today you will find your own path, make your own rules."
"Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow."
"I think women today are so overwhelmed and overtaxed."
