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A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a C-plus.
Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic, rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets.
What's wrong with musicals now is all the gifted men who've died of AIDS-who would otherwise be here today creating great theater.
Focus too much on the near-term and you won't get tomorrow's customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won't get today's.
If you should encounter angry or unkind actions today, take a deep breath, reach deep within and greet the lack of love with love.
Even the 'Today' programme involves a balance between the worthy-but-heavy items with the worthless-but-entertainingly-light ones.
Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries.
Today, when you combine the web with the iPad, you have the most advanced medium for human thought and communication ever created.
Remember that in 1993 a company with a bad Web site needed an engineer. Today, a company with a bad Web site needs a psychiatrist.
Today's circumstances are out of your control but you CAN control your response. Don't let a negative outlook kill your joy today.
Did I do anything wrong today," he said, "or has the world always been like this and I've been too wrapped up in myself to notice?
My biggest influence growing up was Avicii, who put me onto creating the sorts of melodies that feature throughout my songs today.
I was a National-Socialist and I remain one...The Germany of today is no longer a great nation, it has become a province of Europe.
The old SV (Socialist Left Party) were useful idiots for the communists in Moscow. Today's SV are useful idiots for Saddam Hussein.
The very nature of kindness is to spread. If you are kind to others, today they will be kind to you, and tomorrow to somebody else.
Insofar as we may at all claim that slavery has been abolished today, we owe its abolition to the practical consequences of science
I have no interest in returning to yesteryear. I love the conveniences and delights of today's time. I wouldn't go back if I could.
Today's evangelism is just as likely to take place via chat rooms and viral videos as it is in a personal conversation or a sermon.
Popular presentation today is all too often that which puts the mob in a position to talk about something without understanding it.
Some people go to bed at night thinking, 'That was a good day.' I am one of those who worries and asks, 'How did I screw up today?'
We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today.
Every question I'd ever had God answered and still continues to answer every one I have today. It's really amazing what God can do.
There are a lot of people who helped make Queen Latifah who she is today. I don't forget, but a lot of people do and get big heads.
Sexiness today is not about having a perfect body and wearing a tight mini skirt; it's about what you don't show that's truly sexy.
I just need to come to the park every day thinking something good is going to happen to me and hoping today is going to be the day.
Take 30 seconds to encourage everyone you meet today. Everyone. Be genuine and transparent. And do it. Then do it tomorrow. Repeat.
What is needed desperately today is prophetic insight. Scholars can interpret the past; it takes prophets to interpret the present.
You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.'
The great things you intend to do some time must have a beginning if they are ever to be done, so begin something worthwhile today.
The poverty of yesterday was less squalid than the poverty we purchase with our industry today. Fortunes were smaller then as well.
The Venus Project is a concept that could happen today but it is not up to me, it depends on what others do to help bring it about.
I've never had any intentions about anything. That's why I am where I am today, which is neither here nor there, in a literal sense.
Messi is an irreplaceable player, today if he was here we would have won 5-0 but he was not and we had to play another in his place.
The relevant question is not simply what shall we do tomorrow, but rather what shall we do today in order to get ready for tomorrow.
I like my 1980s music. That's why I would bring that back, in a new kind of way, for the people of today. Those are my inspirations.
Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.
Politics is an obsolete way of doing things. Although it was good a hundred years ago, it has no place in today's high tech society.
With the opportunity we build today for a shared prosperity tomorrow, America will prevail. It begins with re-electing Barack Obama.
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
Maybe people don't see me as believable playing a person of today. I guess I'm just more realistic in a corset and funny hairstyles.
My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.
No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old.
There has been an effect of business rap on the output of today's rap music. But I don't think that's the modern day rapper's fault.
President Bush called Arnold to congratulate him today, and after he got off the phone, Arnold said, 'I thought my English was bad.'
Today, our sexuality is an open-ended personal project; it is part of who we are, an identity, and no longer merely something we do.
In the old days, athletes got worked up about the strict rules - today they get worked up about these rules being ignored elsewhere.
If we all looked out for each other a little bit more, I think we wouldn't have a lot of the crisis that we have in today's society.
You have sole custody of your life. Who you are today is not who you have to be tomorrow. Embrace the possibility of transformation.
Life was too short and ended too suddenly. If you didn't take advantage of what you had today, tomorrow it might be ripped from you.
A library is a place where you can live a thousand lives. So why are you waiting when you could be living? Visit your library today.