"I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals."
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"Today I know that all things are watching, that nothing goes unseen, that even wallpaper has a better memory than human beings."
"Leadership used to be about ideas, setting an example and doing the right thing. Today, if you make enough money for the firm (and are not currently an ax murderer) you will be promoted into a position of influence."
"If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are."
"Today's Democrats are pretty much what used to be called moderate Republicans a generation ago."
"I felt that we could hardly improve on the conception of the university expressed by one of the founders of the modern system, Wilhelm von Humboldt, also one of the founders of classical liberalism. That seems to me true today as well, though ideals of course have to be adapted to changing circumstances."
"The House of Representatives, which was closer to the population, had much less power. The executive was more or less an administrator, not an emperor like today."
"Today's future is Tomorrow's past"
"Today [people] are ready to take emergency cures, whatever they are, if it's violence, if it's a fascination with serial killing or whatever - the discomfort is so intense. Maybe it's always been like that, certainly it is now."
"I've come to realize that, with social media today, people consume fashion very differently than they ever have before - they post it, tweet it, "like" it, retweet it. Today, people define themselves by a collection of various elements in their lives that they connect to."
"I look upon England today as an old gentleman who is travelling with a great deal of baggage, trumpery which has accumulated fromlong housekeeping, which he has not the courage to burn."
"The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity."
"If you look over a list of medicinal recipes in vogue in the last century, how foolish and useless they are seen to be! And yet we use equally absurd ones with faith today."
"I think that no experience which I have today comes up to, or is comparable with, the experiences of my boyhood."
"..Yet if today has no meaning, the past was a Blank and the future is a Chaos."
"Today is the youngest you will ever be. Live like it."
"I learned a lot. I knew I had a lot to learn because it's been so long, but that sure did show up there today."
"The work I'm doing today gets me one step closer to the work I should be doing tomorrow. And that the way I learn this is by trying, failing, networking and experimenting. I'll stop doing that when I'm dead."
"We own 18 percent of just the PC business. Now that's only about 60 percent of our business today."
"Andy Harp's RETRIBUTION is a stunner: a blow to the gut and shot of adrenaline. Here is a novel written with authentic authority and bears shocking relevance to the dangers of today. It reminds me of Tom Clancy at his finest. Put this novel on your must-read list-anything by Harp is now on mine."