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• The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritations set into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get ride of them, he uses the irritation to do the loveliest thing an oyster ever has a chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives today, there is only one prescription: make a pearl. It may have to be a pearl of patience, but anyhow, make a pearl. And it takes faith and I love to do it.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Love, Faith, Irritation

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• If Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer were alive today, we’d say they had ADD or a conduct disorder. They [boys] are who they are, and we need to love them for who they are. Let’s not try to rewire them.

  Michael Gurian

  Boys, Trying, Alive

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• If Franz Kafka were alive today he'd be writing about customer service.

  Jonathan Alter

  Writing, Alive, Customers

  Jonathan Alter (2008). “Between the Lines: A View Inside American Politics, People, and Culture”

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• If Ibsen's 'Enemy of the People' were alive today, he would recognize the ethic that has informed capitalist and communist countries alike - economic growth before public health and well-being. The true enemies of the people ar those who continue to sacrifice our long-term interests for short-term gains. But perhaps we should all look in the mirror.

  Susannah York

  Country, Sacrifice, Mirrors

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• Countless Americans who have died in recent years would be alive today if not for the open border policies of this administration and the administration that causes this horrible, horrible thought process, called Hillary Clinton.

  Donald Trump

  Years, Borders, Would Be

  "Transcript of Donald Trump's Immigration Speech" by Travis Dove, www.nytimes.com. September 1, 2016.

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• That happens to a lot of couples. I understand the black history in this country, and regret it, I wish it hadn't happened. See, I also know that it hasn't happened to African-Americans alive today. There isn't one African-American alive today who's treated as three-fifths of a person like it was in the past.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Couple, Regret

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• We live today in a world where most of the really important developments in everything from math and physics and astronomy to public policy and psychology and classical music are so extremely abstract and technically complex and context-dependent that it's next to impossible for the ordinary citizen to feel that they (the developments) have much relevance to her actual life.

  David Foster Wallace

  Math, Psychology, Important

  Interview with Dave Eggers, www.believermag.com. November 2003.

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• Now this really annoys me: All these people getting on the Internet and saying Nostradamus predicted this. If Nostradamus were alive today his name would be Miss Cleo and he'd be charging $2.99 a minute.

  Jay Leno

  Names, People, Missing

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• I think nobody alive today is a more powerful agent of conversion than someone like Mother Teresa. You can refute arguments but not her life. When she came to the National Prayer Breakfast and lectured President Clinton about abortion, he had nothing to say to her. He can't argue with a saint. It's too bad there isn't an easier way, because becoming a saint is not the easiest thing in the world. It's much easier to become an apologist or a philosopher or a theologian.

  Peter Kreeft

  Mother, Powerful, Prayer

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• Connect with supportive people who empower you. The more you jump into your life, the further away from Ed you can get. Don't have a backup plan for living. Live today. [...] Trust in God. Believe in yourself. Get friends and family members to stand behind you. That's the only backup you'll need.

  Jenni Schaefer

  Believe, People, Empowering

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• Live today for what is going to matter 10 billion years from today.

  David Platt

  Years, Today, Matter

  Twitter post from Jul 03, 2015

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• There are more people alive today than have everdied. If that's true, and you believe in reincarnation, then thatmeans there are a lot of people walking around without souls...I've met some of them... Haven't you?

  Bridget Fonda

  Believe, People, Soul

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• If Jesus was alive today, we would kill him with lethal injection. I call that progress. We would have to kill him for the same reason he was killed the first time. His ideas are just too liberal.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Jesus, Ideas, Progress

  Kurt Vonnegut (2008). “Armageddon in Retrospect”, p.24, Penguin

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• Slavish obedience to the clerics, who know how to squeeze every last drop of advantage out of religion, is killing our girls. We must speak-blaspheme, if necessary; be accused of being apostates, if that is what is required. Muslims are taught that Islam put an end to the Arabian practice of burying alive newborn baby girls because they were considered worthless and a burden, but as long as we stay quiet in the face of the abomination of child marriage, we are effectively burying our girls alive today.

  Mona Eltahawy

  Girl, Baby, Children

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• Recently we've been hearing a lot about women "having it all." Myself, I think that is not really an accurate description of female lives today. It seems to me that what we have been up to is DOING it all.

  Sylvia Ann Hewlett

  Women, Thinking, Feminism

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• I think Elvis would be alive today, probably, if he had been allowed to mix and mingle with his fans. I think it was a great cross for him to bear that he couldn't get out and be with his fans.

  Minnie Pearl

  Thinking, Fans, Would Be

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• The scriptures teach us the ways of the Lord. They answer questions about how to live today. They bring a light and a spirit into our lives that we can get in no other way.

  Margaret D. Nadauld

  Light, Scripture, Answers

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• If you're living for today, if you're only dreaming about yesterday, it doesn't work. You got to know that tomorrow is going to be better. Then you're on your way.

  Bill Walton

  Dream, Yesterday, Way

  Source: blitzweekly.com

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• If our founding fathers were alive today, they'd roll over in their graves.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Father, Alive, Graves

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• Over 95% of the designers who have ever lived are alive today. Together, we have the power to define what professionalism in the communications industry will be about: helping increase market share or helping repair the World.

  David Berman

  Communication, Together, Alive

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• Roger Revelle died of a heart attack three months after the Cosmos story was printed. Oh, how I wish he were still alive today. He might be able to stop this scientific silliness and end the global warming scam. He might well stand beside me as a global warming denier.

  John Coleman

  Heart, Wish, Today

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• This is the Scroll of Thoth. Herein are set down the magic words by which Isis raised Osiris from the dead. Oh! Amon-Ra--Oh! God of Gods--Death is but the doorway to new life--We live today-we shall live again--In many forms shall we return-Oh, mighty one.

  John L. Balderston

  Life, Death, Isis

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• It's a miracle that David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop are actually still alive today, given how hard they lived.

  Mick Rock

  Miracle, Alive, Reeds

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• We need a sense of the oneness of the 7 billion human beings alive today. When I meet people, I don't think about being different from them, about being Tibetan, Buddhist or even the Dalai Lama. I only think about being a human being. We all share the potential for positive and negative emotions, yet one of our special qualities is our human mind, our intelligence. If we use it well we'll be successful and happy.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Successful, Thinking

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• In one generation, my family went from extermination simply because of how they pray to God to this ridiculously privileged life I live today. So how can I not love America?

  Jerry Springer

  America, Generations, Praying

  Interview with Brian Polk, tv.avclub.com. May 12, 2008.

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