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• I wanted people to watch. I wanted people to see us together. I wanted people to see us kissing today. I want everyone to know that you're mine.

  Rachel Gibson

  Kissing, People, Together

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• What have you done today, to make you feel proud?

  Heather Small

  Done, Proud, Feels

  Song: Proud

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• Distractions are everywhere. And with the always-on technologies of today, they take a heavy toll on productivity. One study found that office distractions eat an average 2.1 hours a day. Another study, published in October 2005, found that employees spent an average of 11 minutes on a project before being distracted. After an interruption it takes them 25 minutes to return to the original task, if they do at all.

  David Rock

  Technology, Average, Office

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• The money footballers earn today is incredulous

  Bobby Gould

  Footballer

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• In the Middle Ages, everything bad was the work of the devil, everything good, the work of God. Today, the French see everything in reverse and blame the Germans for it.

  Jose Rizal

  Age, Devil, Blame

  Letter to Fr. Pastells, November 11, 1892.

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• To me there is no past or future in my art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all. The art of the Greeks, of the Egyptians, of the great painters who lived in other times, is not an art of the past; perhaps it is more alive today than it ever was.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Past, Greek

  Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery (1975). “Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections”

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• Faith today is not enough for tomorrow. It must be constantly renewed by a conscious act.

  Luci Shaw

  Tomorrow, Enough, Conscious

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• Confidence is a static state. Determination is active. Determination allows for doubt and for humility - both of which are critical in the world today. There is so much that we don’t know, and so much that we know we don’t know. To be overly confident or without doubt seems silly to me. Determination, on the other hand, is a commitment to win, a commitment to fight the good fight.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Determination, Silly, Humility

  Anna Deavere Smith (2008). “Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind”, p.25, Anchor

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• Look at Andrew Roe's The Miracle Girl from one angle and you'll see an incisive and insightful critique of America at the millennium and today, investigating where we put our faith and why. The greatest of Roe's achievements in this captivating debut is a memorable feat of intense empathy. Roe inhabits characters who are desperate to believe and reveals to us their needs and wounds and hopes, and he does so with kindness, generosity, and wisdom. This is a novel about what it means to be human, to seek connection and hope and maybe even transcendence in the world around us.

  Doug Dorst

  Girl, Kindness, Believe

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• Remember, everything you are building today will be killed or iterated. The former is more likely than the latter. Great products are created by many incremental improvements.

  Justin Kan

  Remembers Everything, Improvement, Building

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• Today the greatest single deterrent to knowledge of Jesus is His familiarity. Because we think we know Him, we pass Him by.

  Winifred Kirkland

  Jesus, Thinking, Knows

  Winifred Margaretta Kirkland (1929). “The Great Conjecture: Who is this Jesus?”, New York : H. Holt

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• The Great Story of our immense journey contains crucial lessons for guiding humanity safely through the dangers and confusions evident today. This grand epic will propel us forward in a spirit of expectant curiosity. We will place our trust not only in the Whole but also in our own species' capacity to serve as the vessel through which the evolutionary impulse is most active at this time.

  Michael Dowd

  Epic, Journey, Confusion

  Michael Dowd (2008). “Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World”, p.260, Penguin

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• Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange.

  Nicolas Roeg

  Strange, Film, Made

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• Today in Saudi, women are either at the mercy of their husbands or at the mercy of judges who tend to side with the husbands. The only circumstance that a woman can ask for a divorce or a khali is when her husband is in total agreement with her or if she comes from a very powerful family who decide to back her up.

  Basmah bint Saud

  Powerful, Husband, Divorce

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• What you believe someone else can or can't do hasn't got beans with the doing. Or lack of doing. Just go back through your history books and you'll discover that just about everything you take for granted today in your daily lives was absolutely impossible not so many years ago.

  Martin Caidin

  Believe, Book, Years

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• These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a toy made of paper children use to play with. My opinion is we should search for a completely different flying machine, based on other flying principles. I consider the aircraft of the future, that which will take off vertically, fly as usual and land vertically. This flying machine should have no parts in movement. The idea came from the huge power of the cyclons

  Henri Coanda

  Children, Airplane, Should Have

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• Was that really love? I saw all these passionate people reel about and drift haphazardly as if driven by a storm, the man filled with desire today, satiated on the morrow, loving fiercely and discarding brutally, sure of no affection and happy in no love.

  Hermann Hesse

  Men, People, Storm

  Hermann Hesse (1969). “Gertrude”

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• Living on the street as a kid changed the way I looked at everything. It was a different time and while it had its dangers, it was nothing like it would be today. It was the Summer of Love and there was a real sense of community among us. We were hippies who looked out for each other instead of trying to rip each other off. We only had to watch out for the police who liked to roust us just on general principles, and the kids who came in from the suburbs to do a little hippie-bashing.

  Charles de Lint

  Summer, Real, Rip

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• When it comes to the whole debate today over evolution versus creation, Jesus affirmed the early chapters of Genesis were accurate when He said, "Have you not read, that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female" (Matthew 19:4). Adam and Eve didn't come on the scene after billions of years of mutations and evolution. No. God created them all the way back in the beginning-just like Moses reported in the Book of Genesis.

  Charlie Campbell

  Bible, Jesus, Book

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• Lots of people today would never consider themselves guilty of idolatry as far as it is spelled out in the Ten Commandments, but by reducing God to some benevolent "man upstairs" whose only attributes are love and tolerance, and who could not care less about sin, they truly have transgressed God's commandment. They have created a god in their mind who does not actually exist and will on the day of judgment, not be able to offer them any help.

  Charlie Campbell

  Men, People, Tolerance

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• I have always thought that clarity is a form of courtesy that the philosopher owes; moreover, this discipline of ours considers it more truly a matter of honor today than ever before to be open to all minds ... This is different from the individual sciences which increasingly [interpose] between the treasure of their discoveries and the curiosity of the profane the tremendous dragon of their closed terminology.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Discovery, Dragons, Discipline

  "What is Philosophy?". Book by Jose Ortega y Gasset, 1964.

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• What I don't like today is, to put it coarsely, the phony Hasidism, the phony mysticism. Many students say, "Teach me mysticism." It's a joke.

  Elie Wiesel

  Students, Phony, Teach

  "Elie Wiesel: Conversations". Book edited by Robert Franciosi, 2002.

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• America today is a confused society, caught up in a terror war, a culture war, and a media war, where honesty and professional standards have vanished.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Honesty, Confused, War

  "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, March 23, 2007.

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• The best time to write a story is yesterday. The next best time is today.

  R. A. Lafferty

  Writing, Yesterday, Stories

  "It's Down the Slippery Cellar Stairs". Book by R. A. Lafferty, 1995.

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• Mormon prophets have continuously taught the sublime truth that God the Eternal Father was once a mortal man who passed through a school of earth life similar that through which we are now passing. He became God - an exalted being - through obedience to the same eternal Gospel truths that we are given opportunity today to obey.

  Milton R. Hunter

  Father, School, Opportunity

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