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• Now when I speak about Zen, I have a problem, in the sense that the Zen of today has lost the essence, in my estimation, of what I call "old Zen."

  Frederick Lenz

  Essence, Problem, Speak

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• Old Zen was very funny; there was a great deal of humor and happiness. Zen today seems much drier. While there's a certain amount of humor, it seems to lack that total intensity because humor is one of the primary tools for liberation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Tools, Intensity, Certain

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• As lonely and sad as I am today, your return will cause a new birth in me.

  Jon Jones

  Love, Lonely, Return

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• Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past? The sun shines today also.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Past, Thinking, Dry Bones

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson - Nature”, p.2, Editora Dracaena

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• The past is history, the future is a mystery. But today is a gift...that's why they call it the present. So cherish every minute of it.

  Elvis Stojko

  Inspirational, Past, Mystery

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• Even today many educated people think that the victory of Christianity over Greek philosophy is a proof of the superior truth of the former - although in this case it was only the coarser and more violent that conquered the more spiritual and delicate. So far as superior truth is concerned, it is enough to observe that the awakening sciences have allied themselves point by point with the philosophy of Epicurus, but point by point rejected Christianity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Thinking

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.44, Cambridge University Press

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• I always ask myself: "Did I get one percent better today?"

  Benson Henderson

  Mma, Percent, Asks

  "Larry King Live". www.cnn.com. April 15, 2009.

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• I must face the fact, as all others in positions of leadership must do, that America today is an extremely sick nation, and that something could well happen to me at any time. I feel, though, that my cause is so right, so moral, that if I should lose my life, in some way it would aid the cause.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  America, Sick, Way

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I studied cinema at the university so I had a very classical approach to it. I studied all those silent films, and then the films from the 1940's, the Nouvelle Vague, the late Hollywood films. Now I realize, as a young actor, that it's one of my duties to actually be aware of what is today's industry and today's next big directors.

  Gaspard Ulliel

  Silent Films, Hollywood Films, Next

  Source: collider.com

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• I really believe, in my heart and soul, that if we would rebuild and strengthen the family structure in the country, you'd start to really deal with a number of the most difficult problems we're having in the country today, in poverty, education, and in crime, but we've broken the family structure up.

  Sam Brownback

  Country, Believe, Heart

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• When you look at women today, many take very good care of themselves - they exercise, they eat well, they achieve so much in their jobs. I think they feel good, they feel beautiful, and I believe they want to show their bodies.

  Joseph Altuzarra

  Beautiful, Jobs, Believe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I would have been an archaeologist or something, maybe a historian. There are a lot of things I would have liked to have done differently, but everything that happened to me made me the person I am today. No matter how negative it seemed at the time or whatever hardship it seemed to have been at that time, Im just the sum of all those amazing experiences.

  Chaka Khan

  Negative, Done, Hardship

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• You have to know what you need. You need someone who's going to really push you hard. But they also need to understand that, emotionally, sometimes today's not the day to push so hard.

  Kate Hudson

  Needs, Sometimes, Need You

  "Kate Hudson Wants You to Wear Gym Clothes On a Date". Interview with Faran Krentcil, www.elle.com. June 8, 2015.

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• It's kind of a funny world we live in today with tabloids and all. I feel there's so much negativity out there and people sense that people only want to read things that either are controversial or negative, therefore you end up dealing with people lying about your life and having to answer to things that become ridiculous with an onslaught of lies and you have to answer to them.

  Kate Hudson

  Lying, People, Negativity

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• When I take kids into the woods, I tell them, "What we're going to do today is going to be incredibly dangerous." And you just see 20 smiles go up. "But, we're also going to learn to look after each other, who to work together and who to understand and manage that risk." That's what it's about, you don't empower kids if you don't expose them to risk.

  Bear Grylls

  Kids, Empowering, Risk

  "​I Went Camping With Bear Grylls, And Survived". Interview with Wes Siler, gizmodo.com. November 20, 2014.

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• You have to remember the police used to raid and arrest the audience for seeing Scorpio Rising (1964), or Jack Smith movies. Wouldn't that be exciting today, if you see went to the movie and everyone at the IFC was arrested in a paddy wagon and taken away?

  John Waters

  Taken, Scorpios, Police

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I never thought I had more fun when I was young than kids are having today. I think they have just as much fun. It's a different way to have fun.

  John Waters

  Fun, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What is good today may be a cliche tomorrow.

  Alexey Brodovitch

  Fashion, May, Tomorrow

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• To my surprise, I felt a certain springy keenness. I was ready to hike. I had waited months for this day, after all, even if it had been mostly with foreboding. I wanted to see what was out there. All over America today people would be dragging themselves to work, stuck in traffic jams, wreathed in exhaust smoke. I was going for a walk in the woods. I was more than ready for this.

  Bill Bryson

  America, People, Would Be

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• Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Union Pacific Railroad, and J. P. Morgan and Company, we have Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft.

  George Packer

  Oil, Apples, Google

  "Where Have All the Workers Gone?" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. February 24, 2014.

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• I have never let gender get in my way. It has taken me over 30 years to get from a garage to the huge campus that we have today. And it's been a long journey.

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

  Taken, Journey, Years

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• Today's business model is bad for people, bad for the economy and bad for stability and democracy.

  Sharan Burrow

  People, Democracy, Economy

  "Davos: unions call for businesses to share fruits of growth with employees" by Larry Elliott, Jill Treanor, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2015.

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• We really are immortal in the sense that Christ’s Atonement conquers death, both physical and spiritual. And provided we have so lived Today that we have claim on the Atonement’s cleansing grace, we will live forever with God. This life is not so much a time for getting and accumulating as it is a time for giving and becoming. Mortality is the battlefield upon which justice and mercy meet. But they need not meet as adversaries, for they are reconciled in the Atonement of Jesus Christ for all who wisely use Today.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Spiritual, Jesus, Giving

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• I couldn't get a job with CIA today. I am not qualified.

  Porter Goss

  Jobs, Cia, Qualified

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• I just sat down and thought, I'm going to write a song today, I'm going to give it a try. So I just stuck it on a tape like everything else. That was just another song.

  Jules Shear

  Song, Writing, Giving

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