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Gunter Grass Novelist
Today

"Today I know that all things are watching, that nothing goes unseen, that even wallpaper has a better memory than human beings."

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Greg Smith Businessman, Philanthropist
Today

"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."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"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."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
Today

"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."

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Leonard Cohen Singer-Songwriter
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"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."

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Kenneth Cole Fashion Designer
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"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."

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
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"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."

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
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"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."

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Mark Martin Racing Driver
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"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."

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Lewis Schiff Businessman
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"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."

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James Rollins Author, Veterinarian
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"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."

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