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"My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, for reasons which I can easily supply today"
"Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies."
"I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can't stop."
"It used to be that a fellow went on the police force when everything else failed, but today he goes in the advertising game."
"Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral."
"We still have a choice today: nonviolence coesistence or violent coannihilation."
"What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow."
"There are only two days on my calendar... today and the day of judgment"
"I've got so much work to do today, I'd better spend two hours in prayer instead of one."
"If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed."
"I think I'm much less self confident today. I actually went through a quite painful period because of that thinking that I was completely hopeless. But I think that's something that we all go through at various times of our lives and it was quite a sustained thing with me."
"Today I do a mental housecleaning, making room for new, positive thoughts."
"Today I release the need to blame anyone, including myself."
"The bourgeois today burns as heretics and hangs as criminals those to whom he erects monuments tomorrow."
"I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors."
"Today I am a woman torn between the terror that everything might change and the equal terror that everything might carry on exactly the same for the rest of my days."
"Instead of using medicine, better fast today."
"When I was a young reporter, the great vice among journalists was whiskey. Today, it's cynicism."
"Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language."
"If you have something to do tomorrow, do it today."
