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• CHRISTMAS DAY Jesus came! - and came for me. Simple words! and yet expressing Depths of holy mystery, Depths of wondrous love and blessing. Holy Spirit, make me see All His coming means for me; Take the things of Christ, I pray, Show them to my heart today.

  Frances Ridley Havergal

  Jesus, Mean, Heart

  Frances Ridley Havergal, Maria Vernon Graham Havergal, Frances Anna Shaw (1888). “Poetical Works”

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• We deeply regret that some Senators are still willing to do Big Oil?s bidding, and we now turn to the House where the Arctic drilling scheme should be dead on arrival. Americans are clamoring for a clean Congress and a clean energy plan, but sadly they were shortchanged on both today.

  Carl Pope

  Regret, Oil, House

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• I've always felt that my generation was the last group to have passion about the game. Some of today's guys don't seem to share that interest and it shows.

  Tim Henman

  Passion, Games, Guy

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• I was devastated by the atrocious bombings that struck London today. These vicious acts have cut us all to the core, for they are an attack on humanity itself. [7th July 2005 - on London bombings

  Kofi Annan

  Cutting, July, Humanity

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• Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature.

  Omar Bongo

  Political, Economic, Objectives

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• The driving force behind today's terrorist threat is Islamist fundamentalism. The struggle we are engaged in is, at root, ideological. During the last century a strain of Islamist thinking has developed which, like other totalitarianisms, such as Nazism and Communism, offers its followers a form of redemption through violence.

  David Cameron

  Struggle, Thinking, Roots

  David Cameron's speech to the Foreign Policy Centre thinktank, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2005.

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• My big concern is keeping people off the highways today, so that we have no further accidents.

  Jim Hodges

  People, Bigs, Concern

  "South Carolina Governor Discusses Snowstorm". "CNN Live Today" with Daryn Kagan, www.cnn.com. January 3, 2002.

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• I didn't get my hair styled today. I actually stuck my hand in a socket and this is the way it turned out.

  Clinton Portis

  Hair, Hands, Way

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• Those who try to combat the production of shoddy pictures are enemies of the best art today... It always feels tragic to see people labouring to saw off the branch they are sitting on.

  Asger Jorn

  Art, People, Enemy

  Asger Jorn, Per Hovdenakk, Stine Høholt, Arken museum for moderne kunst (Ishøj, Denmark), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands) (2002). “Asger Jorn”

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• My caddy today was a Scot and he told me that he was cheering for Australia, which I thought was a bit harsh. But generally I've been amazed at how many people have come up to me here in Scotland and said: 'I've never really watched cricket before, but I was hooked all summer.' It's great.

  Andrew Strauss

  Summer, Cheer, Scotland

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• Our commitment to this founding principle is especially relevant today. Americans are united as rarely before in compassion and generosity for our fellow citizens whose lives have been devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The powerful winds and floodwater of Katrina tore away the mask that has hidden from public view the many Americans who are left out and left behind.

  Edward Kennedy

  Powerful, Commitment, Compassion

  "Roberts: 'I Have No Agenda'". www.foxnews.com. September 13, 2005.

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• Our diplomacy ended up giving a bad conscience to an international community capable only of expressing noble sentiments while doing nothing, .. So how can one explain that we are today investigating an action our country should be proud of?.

  Alain Juppe

  Country, Giving, Community

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• When compassion for the common man was born on Christmas Day, with it was born new hope among the multitudes. They feel a great, ever-rising determination to lift themselves and their children our of hunger and disease and misery, up to a higher level. Jesus started a fire upon the earth, and it is burning hot today, the fire of a new hope in the hearts of the hungry multitudes.

  Frank Laubach

  Jesus, Determination, Children

  Frank Charles Laubach (1958). “The world is learning compassion”

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• Playing against someone like Roger Federer is not easy. I had my chance today, but I guess I made a lot of errors. But I have no complaints.

  Gael Monfils

  Errors, Roger, Chance

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• Bureaucracy has murdered people in the greater New Orleans area and bureaucracy needs to stand trial before Congress today. So I'm asking Congress, please investigate this now. Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency, give me a better idiot. Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don't give me the same idiot.

  Aaron Broussard

  Caring, New Orleans, Agency

  "Senate Plans Hearings on Slow FEMA Response". "Day to Day" with Madeleine Brand, www.npr.org. September 7, 2005.

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• Isn't today a day to devote to craft? Isn't tomorrow? Isn't every day, routinely, until the end of time?

  Eric Maisel

  Crafts, Tomorrow, Ends

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• Back in those days, in the fifties and sixties, countries had balance of payment's deficits or surpluses, those were reflected much more than today in movements of reserves among countries.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Country, Balance, Movement

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• The 10th Annual Webby Awards represent an extraordinary opportunity to celebrate the evolution of the web from an esoteric medium to the driving force shaping popular culture, business, and society today, .. As the web enters its second decade as an integral part of everyday life, our expanded categories recognize those who are pushing the web in exciting new directions.

  Tiffany Shlain

  Opportunity, Awards, Everyday

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• This is true Hollywood glamour! I am taking personal jewels from a screen legend and creating a one-of-a-kind pair of shoes,which will be worn by a movie star of today.

  Stuart Weitzman

  Stars, Jewels, Shoes

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• I reread Mesrine's book every year because the way the story is told is fascinating. Today, we don't have gangsters like Mesrine - he had humor.

  Thomas Langmann

  Book, Years, Stories

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• Artspeak is an arcane writing style that can result in a vocabulary of obscurities... Today, some of the more spectacular examples are in artist's statements.

  Robert Genn

  Writing, Artist, Vocabulary

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• Today any successful and competent businessman will employ the latest and best-tested methods in production, distribution, and administration. Many are discovering that one of the greatest of all efficiency methods is prayer power.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Prayer, Successful, Administration

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• We meet today To thank Thee for the era done, And Thee for the opening one.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  New Year, Holiday, Eras

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• Today, America can regain the sense of pride that existed before Vietnam... These events, tragic as they are, portend neither the end of the world nor of America's leadership in the world.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Military, Pride, America

  "A War Tat is Finished". Gerald R. Ford's speech at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, www.historyplace.com. April 23, 1975.

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• All the nations and peoples are too closely knit together today for any one of them to imagine that it can live apart. Peace has been said to be indivisible, so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this one world that can no longer be split into isolated fragments.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Diversity, Brotherhood, Together

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1961). “India's foreign policy: selected speeches, September 1946-April 1961”

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