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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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• Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it. And if we cannot educate today's youth, what will we do in 1970 when elementary enrollment will be 5 million greater than 1960? And high school enrollment will rise by 5 million. College enrollment will increase by more than 3 million.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Money, School

  The Great Society, delivered 22 May 1964, Ann Arbor, MI

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• I don't choose to be a common man. I want to be better tomorrow than today. And through a commitment to work and discipline, but mostly hard work. I'll be a little more content, and a little different from the average guy.

  Jay Robinson

  Hard Work, Commitment, Wrestling

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• Hey, guess who's gay? The Green Lantern from the comic books. Today Mitt Romney knocked him down and shaved his head.

  David Letterman

  Book, Gay, Down And

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• Osama bin Laden... lived in one house for, like, six years with three wives. And earlier today, they ruled his death was a suicide.

  David Letterman

  Suicide, Years, Wife

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• A senator got up today in Congress and called his fellow senators sons of wild jackasses. Now, if you think the senators were hot, imagine how the jackasses must feel.

  Will Rogers

  Son, Thinking, Hot

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• Long ago when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks, it was called witchcraft. Today it's called golf.

  Will Rogers

  Golf, Men, Long Ago

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• Only yesterday mankind lived in fear of the scourges of smallpox, cholera and plague that once swept nations before them. Now our major concern is no longer with the disease organisms that once were omnipresent; sanitation, better living conditions, and new drugs have given us a high degree of control over infectious disease. Today we are concerned with a different kind of hazard that lurks in our environment-a hazard we ourselves have introduced into our world as our modern way of life has evolved.

  Rachel Carson

  Our World, Yesterday, Drug

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.207, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance. Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices. And I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy. That men of all creeds have fundamental common objectives is a fact one must learn by the process of education. How to work jointly toward these objectives must be learned by experience.

  Frank Knox

  Education, Art, Believe

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• If Dr. King marched today, would Bill Gates march?
  I know Obama would, but would Hillary take part?

  Jayceon Terrell Taylor

  Kings, Rap, Hip Hop

  Song: Letter To The King

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• Be as proud of your race today as our as our fathers were in days of yore. We have beautiful history, and we shall create another in the future that will astonish the world.

  Marcus Garvey

  Beautiful, Father, Race

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.9, Ravenio Books

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  Hokahey! Today is a good day to die.

  Crazy Horse

  Good Day, Dies

  War cry of Crazy Horse in battle as quoted at "Setting the Record Straight About Native Languages: A Good Day To Die", www.native-languages.org.

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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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• But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality.

  Robert E. Howard

  Writing, Men, Ideas

  Robert E. Howard (2007). “The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom”, p.15, Del Rey

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• The higher education so much needed today is not given in the school, is not to be bought in the market place, but it has to be wrought out in each one of us for himself; it is the silent influence of character on character.

  William Osler

  Teaching, School, Character

  William Osler (1927). “Aequanimitas”, p.121, Ravenio Books

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• To me, today, at age sixty-one, all prayer, by the humble or highly placed, has one thing in common: supplication for strength and inspiration to carry on the best human impulses which should bind us together for a better world.

  Walt Disney

  Dream, Prayer, Inspiration

  "Deeds Rather Than Words". Essay by Walt Disney, 1963.

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• I'm sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They'll be shocked, just as today we're shocked with cannibalism.

  Golda Meir

  Children, War, School

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• We are suffering today from a species of Christianity as dry as dust, as cold as ice, as pale as a corpse, and as dead as King Tut. We are suffering not from a lack of correct heads but of consumed hearts.

  Vance Havner

  Kings, Heart, Dust

  Vance Havner (0101). “It is Time”, p.63, Solid Christian Books

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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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• The strongest part of a religion today is its unconscious poetry

  Matthew Arnold

  Unconscious, Strongest, Religion Today

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• Let us prepare TODAY. For the TOMORROWS in the lives of the nations will be so eventful that Negroes everywhere will be called upon to play their part in the survival of the fittest human group.

  Marcus Garvey

  Play, Preparation, Survival

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.13, Ravenio Books

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• Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day absorb all your interest, energy and enthusiasm. The best preparation for tomorrow is to live today superbly well.

  William Osler

  Past, Preparation, Each Day

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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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• Folks, this is perfect weather for today's game. Not a breath of air.

  Curt Gowdy

  Air, Games, Weather

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• Today, 8 million adult Americans, more than the entire population of Michigan, have not finished 5 years of school. Nearly 20 million have not finished 8 years of school. Nearly 54 million - more than one-quarter of all America - have not even finished high school.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, School, America

  The Great Society, delivered 22 May 1964, Ann Arbor, MI

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