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• O Youth! flame earnest, still aspire, With energies immortal! To many a heaven of Desire, Our yearning opes a portal! And tho' Age wearies by the way, And hearts break in the furrow, We'll sow the golden grain Today-- The Harvest comes tomorrow.

  Gerald Massey

  Heart, Flames, Heaven

  Gerald Massey (1864). “Poems”, p.22

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• Unless the Arab states give Israel formal recognition, within secure, recognised and mutually agreed boundaries, as a permanent feature of the geography and politics of the Middle East. But if Israel is to obtain this recognition, she must, in a settlement, put an end to the territorial occupation which she has maintained since the war of 1967; the nine members of the European Community have declared that this is an essential element in a settlement. On behalf of the British Government I underline that need today.

  Anthony Crosland

  War, Government, Israel

  Speech to the UN General Assembly, October 5, 1976.

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• We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.

  Esther Perel

  Religious, Anxiety, Guilt

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• You bring all you ever were and are to any relationship you have today.

  Fred Rogers

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.26, Penguin

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• You know, before when (the police went) to work, they used to be like, 'I'm gonna kick somebody's ass today and so I hope I can catch somebody in a bad situation or breaking the law, because I'm gonna beat someone's ass in a big way, I think that attitude has changed.

  Rodney King

  Attitude, Thinking, Law

  "Five years later, wounds from L.A. riots still sting". Interview with Anne McDermott, edition.cnn.com. April 29, 1997.

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• Today there seems to be only one absolute thing: relativism.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Absolutes, Seems, Relativism

  "Michael: a German fate in diary notes". Book by Joseph Goebbels, 1929.

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• It seems to me that the arts are rather flourishing. There's an awful lot of bad art about because of this, but that's true of every great era. I'm sure there was a lot dreadful art in the Renaissance that we fortunately don't see today.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Art, Renaissance, Awful

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• Today is not forever.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Forever

  Louis Auchincloss (2002). “The Rector of Justin: A Novel”, p.349, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You don't know the things in your childhood that influence you. You can't possibly know them. People today try to analyze the early environment and the reasons for something that happened, but if you look at children of the same family -- children who have identical parents, go to identical schools, have an almost identical upbringing, and yet who have totally different experiences and neuroses -- you realize that what influences the children is not so much the obvious externals as their emotional experiences. Of course any psychiatrist knows that.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Children, School, Emotional

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• In my day, they were not interested in making boys happy. Those schools were made for the types of men who would become quite successful. It was brutal. They are not brutal today. They are country clubs today.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Country, School, Successful

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• I grew up in the 1920s and 1930s in a nouveau riche world, where money was spent wildly, and I'm still living in one!... The private schools are all jammed with long waiting lists; the clubs -- all the old clubs -- are jammed with long waiting lists today; the harbors are clogged with yachts; there has never been a more material society than the one we live in today.... Where is this 'vanished world' they talk about? I don't think the critics have looked out the window!

  Louis Auchincloss

  School, Thinking, Long

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• I think you just have to be comfortable in your skin. But, I'm a nudist in any case. I've never had a problem with my body and I don't really care what people think, so I have bottoms on and pretty much go topless, or also when we shoot - we did a lot of nude pictures today, too - it doesn't bother me in the slightest.

  Heidi Klum

  Thinking, People, Skins

  Allure Magazine, May 2012.

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• If we had those 40 million children that were [aborted] over the last 30 years, we wouldn't need the illegal immigrants to fill the jobs that they are doing today.

  Tom DeLay

  Jobs, Children, Years

  Tom DeLay's speech at the College Republican National Convention in Washington, DC, www.youtube.com. 2007.

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• I decree today that life is simply taking and not giving,
  England is mine and it owes me a living.

  Steven Morrissey

  Giving, England, Life Is

  "Song: 'Still Ill'". 1984.

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• The reason Social Security is in big trouble is we don't have enough workers to support the retirees. Well, a third of all the young people in America are not in America today because of abortion, because one in three pregnancies end in abortion.

  Rick Santorum

  Pregnancy, America, People

  "Rick Santorum, GOP presidential hopeful, blames Social Security problems on abortion" by Aliah Shahid, www.nydailynews.com. March 30, 2011.

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• Ron Paul may be the wackiest candidate in the GOP field. But for pure, blind stupidity, nobody beats Santorum. In my 20 years in the Senate, I never met a dumber member, which he reminded me of today.

  Rick Santorum

  Years, Stupidity, May

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• The Founding Fathers realized that "the power to tax is the power to destroy," which is why they did not give the Federal government the power to impose an income tax. Needless to say, the Founders would be horrified to know that Americans today give more than a third of their income to the Federal government.

  Ron Paul

  Father, Government, Giving

  Ron Paul (2008). “Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property”, p.84, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• To condemn free-market capitalism because of anything going on today makes no sense. There is no evidence that capitalism exists today. We are deeply involved in an interventionist-planned economy that allows major benefits to accrue to the politically connected of both political parties. One may condemn the fraud and the current system, but it must be called by its proper names — Keynesian inflationism, interventionism, and corporatism.

  Ron Paul

  Party, Names, Political

  Ron Paul (2008). “Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property”, p.44, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Not to say that music today doesn't have heart, but it's really few and far between because technology has advanced itself so much that anybody can be a singer. Back in the day, you had to know how to sing.

  Christina Aguilera

  Heart, Technology, Singing

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• I think people today are very cynical. They need to bring other people down. Reality television and tabloid magazines—never before did we need to see movie stars taking out their garbage. But all of a sudden, it's front-page news—trying to figure out who's dating whom, all that stuff. Who cares?

  Scarlett Johansson

  Stars, Thinking, Reality

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• It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word 'terrorist' is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.

  Alain Badiou

  Political, Causes, Examination

  Alain Badiou (2005). “Infinite Thought”, p.109, A&C Black

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• I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism, let us call it thus, is considered to be archaic or old-fashioned, as though in a way there existed no other definition of what it means to be modern than, quite simply, to be at all times caught in the dominant forms of the moment.

  Alain Badiou

  Mean, Simple, Way

  "Can Change Be Thought? A Dialogue with Alain Badiou by Bruno Bosteels". "Alain Badiou: Philosophy And Its Conditions", Book edited by Gabriel Riera, 2005.

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• Politics seems much less important today. When you see your young daughter smiling as she was, and moving around, it's a superb feeling.

  Gordon Brown

  Daughter, Moving, Feelings

  "'This will be a big change in my life .. politics is now less important' says new dad Gordon Brown" by Colin Wills, Sunday Mirror, December 30, 2001.

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• On this day I remember words that have stayed with me since my childhood and which matter a great deal to me today, my school motto: "I will try my outmost". This is my promise to all of the people of Britain and now let the work of change begin.

  Gordon Brown

  School, People, Childhood

  Gordon Brown's First Speech as Prime Minister, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 27, 2007.

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• Good strong banks are essential for every family and for every business in the country and extraordinary times call for the bold and far-reaching solutions that the Treasury has announced today.

  Gordon Brown

  Country, Strong, Essentials

  Gordon Brown during Press Conference with the Chancellor of the exchequer, webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk. October 8, 2008.

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