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• Today...the bluebirds, old and young, have revisited their box, as if they would fain repeat the summer without intervention of winter, if Nature would let them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Winter, Boxes

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2189, Delphi Classics

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• Sum all the gifts that man is endowed with, and we give our greatest share of admiration to his energy. And today, if I were a heathen, I would rear a statue to Energy and fall down and worship it!

  Mark Twain

  Fall, Men, Giving

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.8014, Delphi Classics

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• Amazingly, much of the best cartoon work was done early on in the medium's history. The early cartoonists, with no path before them, produced work of such sophistication, wit, and beauty that it increasingly seems to me that cartoon evolution is working backward. Comic strips are moving toward a primordial goo rather than away from it . . . Not only can comics be more than we're getting today. but the comics already have been more than we're getting today.

  Bill Watterson

  Moving, Cartoon, Done

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• Twenty-one years ago today Saddam Hussein was first elected president of Iraq and he has been re-elected ever since. Apparently they have the same electoral process we do, you don't need the popular vote to win.

  Jay Leno

  Winning, Years, Iraq

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• Everyday epiphanies encourage us to cherish everything. Today a new sun has risen. Everything lives. Everything can speak to your soul passionately if you will be still enough to listen. "You have to count on living every single day in a way YOU believe will make YOU feel good about YOUR life," actress Jane Seymour suggests, "so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Believe, Feel Good, Soul

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• Today, as you know, I am famous and very rich. But when I am alone with myself, I haven't the 'courage' to consider myself an artist, in the great and ancient sense of that word... I am only a public entertainer, who understands his age.

  Pablo Picasso

  Artist, Age, Ancient

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• Today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst.

  Pablo Picasso

  Heart, Poet, Danger

  Elizabeth Cowling, Pablo Picasso (2002). “Picasso: style and meaning”, Phaidon Press

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• And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich.

  Pablo Picasso

  Mean, Riches, Gains

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• Love yourself and watch - Today, tomorrow, always. To straighten the crooked You must first do a harder thing - Straighten yourself.

  Gautama Buddha

  Love You, Responsibility, Watches

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• Maybe Napoleon was wrong when he said we were a nation of shopkeepers... Today England looked like a nation of goalkeepers.

  Tom Stoppard

  Goalkeepers, England, Said

  1977 Professional Foul. See Napoleon 607:68.

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• The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow.

  William Cowper

  Care, Tomorrow

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• A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it.

  Albert Camus

  Writing, Suffering

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• Capitalism in the United States has undergone profound modification, not just under the New Deal but through a consensus that continued to grow after the New Deal. Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.

  Norman Cousins

  Senior, Country, Government

  Norman Cousins (1972). “World”, s.n.

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• If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

  Art Buchwald

  Sadness, Yesterday, Live In The Moment

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• The well of nature is full today. Time to go outside and take a drink.

  Diane Ackerman

  Vices, Drink, Wells

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Deep Play”, p.171, Vintage

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• The Bible promises us that Jesus will return to take His faithful followers with Him to live with Him in His glorious presence forever. Everyone else will be left behind to face God's wrath and judgment. If Jesus were to return today, do you know if He would take you with Him to heaven?.

  Billy Graham

  Bible, Jesus, Wrath

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• Man has always been dexterous at confusing evil with good. That was Adam's and Eve's problem, and it is our problem today. If evil were not made to appear attractive, there would be no such thing as temptation.

  Billy Graham

  Men, Evil, Confusing

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• Too few people recognize that the high technology so celebrated today is essentially a mathematical technology.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Technology, People, Mathematics

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  Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.

  Duke Ellington

  Thoughtful, Past, Matter

  Mark Tucker, Duke Ellington (1995). “The Duke Ellington Reader”, p.326, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Ben Hogan was not really a big hitter. He was long enough. But Ben Hogan today? Ben Hogan today could not compete at Augusta because he did not have the massive length to compete against the long hitters. Power was always an issue at Augusta, but never so dominant that you couldn't play it.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Play, Issues, Long

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• Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.

  Paul Harvey

  Future, Tomorrow, Pessimist

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• It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude.

  Edgar Degas

  Artist, Solitude, Wish

  Trewin Copplestone, Edgar Degas (1998). “Edgar Degas”, Gramercy Books

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• A week ago it was the mountains I thought the most wonderful, and today it's the plains. I guess it's the feeling of bigness in both that carries me away.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Feelings, Mountain, Wonder

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• Today there are a lot of novelists who seem to be writing to be reviewed, not read.

  Pete Hamill

  Writing, Novelists, Seems

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• If you don't like how something is going for you, change it. If something isn't enough, change it. If something doesn't suit you, change it. If something doesn't please you, change it. You don't ever have to be the same after today. If you don't like your present address change it - you're not a tree!

  Jim Rohn

  Change, Suits You, Tree

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