Today Quotes - Page 22

• English Canada must clearly understand that, whatever is said or done, Québec is, today and forever, a distinct society, that is free and able to assume [the control of] its destiny and its development.

  Robert Bourassa

  Destiny, Forever, Done

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• A great nation cannot abandon its responsibilities. Responsibilities abandoned today return as more acute crises tomorrow.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Responsibility, Return, Tomorrow

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• To do today's work well and not to bother about tomorrow is the secret of accomplishment

  William Osler

  Accomplishment, Secret, Tomorrow

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• The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people and the books. They are useful public servants, who manage libraries in the interest of the public . . . Many still think that a great reader, or a writer of books, will make an excellent librarian. This is pure fallacy.

  William Osler

  Book, Thinking, Dragons

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• Today we are shapers of the world of tomorrow.

  Walt Disney

  World, Tomorrow

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• Yesterday's History. Tomorrow's a Mystery. So live for today.

  Carroll Shelby

  Yesterday, Live For Today, Tomorrow

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• I was thinking that I might fly today. Just to disprove all the things you say... please be careful with me, I'm sensitive, and I'd like to stay that way.

  Jewel

  Stay Strong, Thinking, Might

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• It was so cold in New York City today that the Statue of Liberty had her torch under her dress.

  David Letterman

  New York, Cities, Liberty

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• I love horses and I only ask-don't let me know which one we are eating today.

  Will Rogers

  Horse, Eating, Let Me

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• Here's good news: George W. Bush says that he is committed to fighting global warming. Yeah, well, he nipped that in the bud, didn't he? ... President Bush says he's really going to buckle down now and fight global warming. As a matter of fact, he announced today he's sending 20,000 troops to the sun

  David Letterman

  Fighting, President, Matter

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• Think joy, talk joy, practice joy, share joy, saturate your mind with joy, and you will have the time of your life today and every day all your life.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Positive, Thinking, Practice

  Norman Vincent Peale (2015). “Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living”, p.49, Open Road Media

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• Positive Thinkers get positive results because they appreciate the inestimable value of a day, this day, not the next day, but this day, and every day. Today offers at least sixteen waking hours that may be crammed FULL of opportunity, joy, excitement, and achievement.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Opportunity, Next Day, Appreciate

  Norman Vincent Peale (2015). “Why Some Positive Thinkers Get Powerful Results”, p.53, Open Road Media

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• That we suffer so much today under whatsoever flag we live is proof positive that constitutions and laws, when framed by the early advocates of human liberty, never included and were never intended for us as a people. It is only a question of sheer accident that we happen to be fellow citizens today with the descendants of those who, through their advocacy, laid the foundation for human rights.

  Marcus Garvey

  Rights, Law, People

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.37, Ravenio Books

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• If today were my last day, would I do what I'm doing?...If the answer was 'No' too many days in a row, I'd make a change.

  Steve Jobs

  Answers, Lasts, Making Changes

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• Well, we're just a couple of weeks from new President Barack Obama being sworn in. And he's been very busy naming a lot of cabinet positions. And today he announced that he wants the surgeon general to be TV Dr. Sanjay Gupta. That was the kid on 'American Idol,' wasn't it?

  David Letterman

  Couple, Kids, Idols

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• I got a call from my mom today, she says, 'Well, David, I see you didn't get the 'Tonight Show' again.'

  David Letterman

  Mom, Tonight, Shows

  "Fallon replaces Leno on 'Tonight Show,' but the joke's on Letterman" by Ed Payne and Bree Hare, www.cnn.com. April 4, 2013.

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• 'Human history, ' H.G. Wells once wrote, 'becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.' You and I cannot be indifferent to the outcome of that race. We care deeply about the winner. Because we do care so deeply about the winner, that is why we are all in the East Room of the White House today.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, White, Race

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.226, Best Books on

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• Today - wealthier, more powerful and more able than ever before in our history - our Nation can declare another essential freedom.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Powerful, Essentials

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.172, Best Books on

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• You seem to be going in for sincerity today. It isn't becoming to you, really — except as an obvious pose. Be as artificial as you are, I advise. There's a sort of sincerity in that, you know. And, after all, you must confess you like that better.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Becoming, Sincerity, Obvious

  Eugene O'Neill (2014). “The Hairy Ape”, p.20, The Floating Press

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• You and I shouldn't claim we love Oregon more than anyone else, but that we love Oregon as much as anyone. Our thoughts today, and our deliberations to come, must spring from our determination to keep Oregon lovable and to make it even more livable.

  Tom McCall

  Determination, Spring, Oregon

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• The interests of Oregon for today and in the future must be protected from the grasping wastrels of the land. We must respect another truism - that unlimited and unregulated growth, leads inexorably to a lowered quality of life.

  Tom McCall

  Land, Oregon, Growth

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• As it was 189 years ago, so today the cause of America is a revolutionary cause. And I am proud this morning to salute you as fellow revolutionaries. Neither you nor I are willing to accept the tyranny of poverty, nor the dictatorship of ignorance, nor the despotism of ill health, nor the oppression of bias and prejudice and bigotry. We want change. We want progress. We want it both abroad and at homeand we aim to get it.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Morning, Ignorance, Bias And Prejudice

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.830, Best Books on

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• Today solemn exposition of the Blessed Sacrament is the grace and need of our time. Society will be restored and renewed when all its members group themselves around our Emmanuel.

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Blessed, Grace, Needs

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• One of Governor Romney's aides today on television said that Governor Romney, after he wins the primaries, will be like an [Etch A Sketch] - you take whatever he said and you can shake it up and it will be gone, and he's going to draw a whole new picture for the general election.

  Rick Santorum

  Winning, Etch A Sketch, Gone

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• The planet earth is a sub-world, way below what's average, because if an enlightened being walked through New York City today, no one would see him or her. They wouldn't see the glow.

  Frederick Lenz

  New York, Buddhism, Average

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