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• It is often said that Anarchists live in a world of dreams to come, and do not see the things which happen today. We do see them only too well, and in their true colors, and that is what makes us carry the hatchet into the forest of prejudice that besets us.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Dream, Color, Prejudice

  Peter Kropotkin, George Woodcock (1993). “Fugitive writings”, Black Rose Books Ltd

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• Whatever be thy fate today, Remember, this will pass away!

  George Eliot

  Fate, Passing Away, Remember

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• Thus Angels' Bread is made The Bread of man today: The Living Bread from Heaven With figures doth away: O wondrous gift indeed! The poor and lowly may Upon their Lord and Master feed.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Angel, Men, Heaven

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• Whatever can be done another day can be done today.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Done, Another Day

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.61, Stanford University Press

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• More and more it seems to me that the philosopher, being of necessity a man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, has always found himself, and had to find himself, in contradiction to his today: his enemy was ever the ideal of today. So far all these extraordinary furtherers of men whom one calls philosophers, though they themselves have rarely felt like friends of wisdom but rather like disagreeable fools and dangerous question marks, have found their task, their hard, unwanted, inescapable task, but eventually also the greatness of their task, in being the bad conscience of their time.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, Greatness, Men

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• Now we will no longer concede so easily that anyone has the truth; the rigorous methods of inquiry have spread sufficient distrust and caution, so that we experience every man who represents opinions violently in word and deed as any enemy of our present culture, or at least as a backward person. And in fact, the fervor about having the truth counts very little today in relation to that other fervor, more gentle and silent, to be sure, for seeking the truth, a search that does not tire of learning afresh and testing anew.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Enemy, Culture

  "Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, transl. by Helen Zimmern, Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself"/ aphorism 633, 1909-1913.

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• Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Fall, Snow, Heaven

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.99, Taylor & Francis

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• What is today supported by precedents will hereafter become a precedent.

  Tacitus

  Precedent, Hereafter

  "Annals". Book by Tacitus. Book XI, 24,

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• Yesterday should be the teacher of today.

  Publilius Syrus

  Teacher, Yesterday, Should

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• Words, English words, are full of echoes, of memories, of associations. They have been out and about, on people's lips, in their houses, in the streets, in the fields, for so many centuries. And that is one of the chief difficulties in writing them today -- that they are stored with other meanings, with other memories, and they have contracted so many famous marriages in the past.

  Virginia Woolf

  Marriage, Memories, Writing

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• I remember a very important lesson that my father gave me when I was twelve or thirteen. He said, "You know, today I welded a perfect seam and I signed my name to it." And I said, "But, Daddy, no one's going to see it!" And he said, "Yeah, but I know it's there." So when I was working in kitchens, I did good work.

  Toni Morrison

  Father, Names, Daddy

  FaceBook post by Toni Morrison from Dec 12, 2011

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• Today we are all speeding under the golden arms of the arches into our city, into our lives, into the world that is a stream of information, ceaselessly collected and projected.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Cities, Arms, Information

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• Any loss of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by violence. Today, the electric revolution, the wired planet, and the information environment involve everybody in everybody to the point of individual extinction.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Loss, People, Identity

  "Letters of Marshall McLuhan" by Marshall McLuhan, (p. 514), 1987.

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• Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.

  Langston Hughes

  Years, Democracy, Compromise

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1941-1950”, p.77, University of Missouri Press

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• X is not my real name. But if you study history, you'll find why no Black man in the Western Hemisphere knows his real name. Some of his ancestors kidnapped our ancestors from Africa and took us into the Western Hemisphere and sold us there, and our names were stripped from us and so today we don't know who we really are. I am one of those who admit it, and so I just put X up there to keep from wearing his name.

  Malcolm X

  Real, Men, Names

  Malcolm X's speech at the Oxford Union debate (December 3, 1964) as quoted in Saladin Ambar "Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era" (p. 36), 2013.

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• Any time you find the government involved in a conspiracy to violate the citizenship or the civil rights of a people, then you are wasting your time going to that government expecting redress. Instead, you have to take that government to the World Court and accuse it of genocide and all of the other crimes that it is guilty of today.

  Malcolm X

  Rights, Government, People

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Detroit Version)". Malcolm X's speech at a meeting sponsored by the Congress for Racial Equality in Detroit, Michigan, April 12, 1964.

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• A revolution is bloody, but America is in a unique position. She's the only country in history in a position actually to become involved in a bloodless revolution. The Russian revolution was bloody, Chinese revolution was bloody, French revolution was bloody, Cuban revolution was bloody, and there was nothing more bloody then the American Revolution. But today this country can become involved in a revolution that won't take bloodshed. All she's got to do is give the black man in this country everything that's due him, everything.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Men, Unique

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Detroit Version)". Malcolm X's speech at a meeting sponsored by the Congress for Racial Equality in Detroit, Michigan, April 12, 1964.

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• I want to finish by saying that I intend to be an avid spokesperson for testicular cancer once I have beaten the disease. I want this to be a positive experience and I want to take this opportunity to help others who might someday suffer from the same circumstance I face today.

  Lance Armstrong

  Cancer, Helping Others, Opportunity

  Press Conference, October 08, 1996.

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• We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind, that is the approval by the General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Rights, Approval, Events

  Eleanor Roosevelt (2009). “The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers”

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• It is impossible to decide whether a particular detail of the Pythagorean universe was the work of the master, or filled in by a pupil a remark which equally applies to Leonardo or Michelangelo . But there can be no doubt that the basic features were conceived by a single mind; that Pythagoras of Samos was both the founder of a new religious philosophy, and the founder of Science, as the word is understood today.

  Arthur Koestler

  Religious, Philosophy, Filled In

  Arthur Koestler (2017). “The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe”, p.27, Penguin UK

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• Remember when we used to worry about some weirdo having a razor blade inside an apple on Halloween? Not anymore. Like a kid today would eat an apple.

  Jay Leno

  Halloween, Kids, Apples

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• It was so hot today I saw a robin dipping his worm in Nestea.It was so hot today I saw a pigeon walking in the shadow of Orson Welles.It was so hot today that Burger King was singing, "if you want it your way, cook it yourself.

  Johnny Carson

  Kings, Singing, Shadow

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• Yesternight the sun went hence, And yet is here today.

  John Donne

  Sun

  John Donne (1996). “Selected Poetry”, p.90, Oxford University Press, USA

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• My God, look at the words people use today. They use profanity like it's nothing. Christ almighty.

  Tommy Lasorda

  People, Looks, Use

  "Q&A: Tommy Lasorda talks food, baseball and motivation, as only Mr. Dodger can". Interview with Tom Hoffarth, www.dailynews.com. July 15, 2013.

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• Where today people surf the web and check their e-mail on their cell phones, tomorrow they will be checking their vital signs.

  Eric Topol

  Phones, Cells, People

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