T Quotes
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“Today the patent office is obsolete. You just take whatever you do, tool up, and start production for six months. At the end of the six months you put the data on all the computer inputs all over the world and you got your business. You can make all your money, and then people can steal it, but by then it doesn't matter because you've made the money up front and you avoid wasting money in lawsuits. [My father] had all these kinds of ideas years ahead of others.”
“Today the path of total dictatorship in the United States can be laid by strictly legal means, unseen and unheard by the Congress, the President, or the people. Outwardly we have a Constitutional government. We have operating within our government and political system, another body representing another form of government - a bureaucratic elite.”
“Today the people from my State of Tennessee would listen to this debate, or even talk about a reference to God on our money or in the Halls of Congress or in our Pledge and say, please, let common sense and logic win the day and prevail versus legal mumbo jumbo.”
“Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual.”
Source: The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements
“Today the prevailing fad is vitamins, yesterday it was appendicitis operations, Paderewski's minuet, or the ouija board.”
Source: Harold Bauer His Book
“Today the primary threat to the liberties of the American people comes not from communism, foreign tyrants or dictators. It comes from the tendency on our own shores to centralize power, to trust bureaucracies rather than people.”
“Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.”
“Today, the Qutubs are the guardians of the message of Divine Revelations.”
Source: Beyond Duality: The Art of Transcendence
“Today the real test of America's power and wisdom is not our capacity to make war but our capacity to prevent it. Prevention must be our overriding objective. It can be done. Surrendering to the inevitability of combat only paves the way for its occurring.”
“Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.”
“Today the reason for the Zionist regime's existence is questioned and this regime is on its way to annihilation.”
“Today, the richest 8% earn half of all the world's income and the richest 1% own more than half of all wealth. The poorest billion people account for just 1% of all consumption. The richest billion, 72%.”
Source: Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
“Today, the role of a change leader is restricted to the management of incremental changes. What should be the new role of change leaders in an environment which is constantly multiplying its pace of progress?”
Source: Quantraz
“Today the salaries of stars are astronomical in comparison with the 20's, but the high cost of today's living and taxes takes a huge bite out of these salaries.”
“Today the search for a new global order is under way.”
“Today the Secretary of State said that of the 247 candidates, so far 115 of them have been certified. How embarrassing is that? Imagine if you were turned down because you didn't meet the high standards set by Larry Flynt and Gallagher.”
“Today the separation of church and state in America is used to silence the church. When Christians speak out on issues, the hue and cry from the humanist state and media is that Christians, an all religions, are prohibited from speaking since there is a separation of church and state.”
Source: The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the west
“Today the separation of church and state is America is used to silence the church... The way the concept is used today is totally reversed from the original intent... It is used today as a false political dictum in order to restrict the influence of Christian ideas... To have suggested the state separated from religion and religious influence would have amazed the Founding Fathers.”
“Today, the sitting finally caught up with me when I bent down to pick up a baseball for group of boys and, well, my pants have perished, and that is why I am in your bridal shop and at your mercy, sitting in your presence, which is against what society dictates I should do, while I beg for your assistance.”
Source: Hearts of Gold Collection
“Today the situation in India is such that we should make the poor strong so that they become partners in defeating poverty.”
“Today the so called "rich and successful people" don't know about my writings. But one day they will have to read my writings and awaken from their slumber of turpitude.
My poetry is not mainstream. My novel was about strugglers. I have never been to any literary meet. I have never been on stage for any event related to literature. Because I feel all these discussions and events are trivial to the cause of writing. A writer must write not attend events.
I am the voice for the strugglers and fighters of our world. They need my words to express their anger and frustration against a cruel world.
I stand up for the strugglers and the underprivileged people of our world.
The world will be ruined by the "successful and rich people."
It is time the "rich and successful people" make amends.”
“Today the so called "rich and successful people" don't know about my writings. But one day they will have to read my writings and awaken from their slumber of turpitude.
My poetry is not mainstream. My stories are about struggle.
I am the voice of struggle and revolution. I represent the strugglers and fighters of the world. My words express anger and frustration against a cruel world.
The world will be ruined by the "successful and rich people." Amassing wealth seems to be the prerogative of these "rich and successful people," at the cost of the environment and betterment of the world. The disparity between the haves and the have-nots have grown to gargantuan proportions and this disparity will spark revolutions in the coming days.
It is time the "rich and successful people" make amends.”
“Today the so called "rich and successful people" don't know about my writings. But one day they will have to read my writings and awaken from their slumber of turpitude.
My poetry is not mainstream. My stories are about struggle. I have never been to any literary meet. I have never been on stage for any event related to literature. Because I feel all these discussions and events are trivial to the cause of writing. A writer must write not attend events.
I am the voice for the strugglers and fighters of our world. They need my words to express their anger and frustration against a cruel world.
I stand up for the strugglers and the underprivileged people of our world.
The world will be ruined by the "successful and rich people."
It is time the "rich and successful people" make amends.”
“Today the so called "rich and successful people" don't know about my writings. But one day they will have to read my writings and awaken from their slumber of turpitude.
My poetry is not mainstream. My stories are about struggle. I have never been to any literary meet. I have never been on stage for any event related to literature.
I feel most often these discussions and events do not give voice to the strugglers.
I am the voice of the strugglers and fighters of the world. My words express the anger and frustration against a cruel world.
I stand up for the strugglers and the underprivileged people of our world.
The world will be ruined by the "successful and rich people." Amassing wealth seems to be the prerogative of these "rich and successful people," at the cost of the environment and betterment of our world. The disparity between the haves and the have-nots have grown to gargantuan proportions and this disparity will spark revolutions in the coming days.
It is time the "rich and successful people" make amends.”
“Today the so called "rich and successful people" don't know about my writings. But one day they will have to read my writings and awaken from their slumber of turpitude.
My poetry is not mainstream. My stories are about strugglers. I have never been to any literary meet. I have never been on stage for any event related to literature. Because I feel all these discussions and events are trivial to the cause of writing. A writer must write not attend events.
I am the voice for the strugglers and fighters of our world. They need my words to express their anger and frustration against a cruel world.
I stand up for the strugglers and the underprivileged people of our world.
The world will be ruined by the "successful and rich people."
It is time the "rich and successful people" make amends.”
“Today the Somme is a peaceful but sullen place, unforgetting and unforgiving. ... To wander now over the fields destined to extrude their rusty metal fragments for centuries is to appreciate in the most intimate way the permanent reverberations of July, 1916. When the air is damp you can smell rusted iron everywhere, even though you see only wheat and barley.”
Source: The Great War and Modern Memory
“Today (The Sonnet)
Today, we ain't no partisan poophead.
Today, we are just plain human.
Today, we ain't no intellectual ding-dong.
Today, we are just plain human.
Today, we ain't no ideological blockhead.
Today, we are just plain human.
Today, we ain't no religious hard case.
Today, we are just plain human.
Today, we ain't slaves to class 'n luxury.
Today, we are just plain human.
Today, we ain't no vermin after self-care.
Today, we are just plain human.
I know very well, that day is not today.
So, let us start the work right this very day.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“Today the sort of thing for a guy in England growing up is that you have to suppress all your emotions. It's almost like you have to sit back and be cool.”
“Today, the stars were particularly beautiful.
Although, can it be otherwise?”
“Today the story is no less attitude-adjusting. It is about the defining cultural, social and political issue of our age. It is about human transformation.”
Source: Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human
“Today the strategies of many companies in the real estate industry are premised on low interest rates, an assumption that has resulted in the rapid expansion of the real estate securitization business. This trend could be regarded as a risk factor, as it exposes the real estate sector to at least three potential problems: first, interest rate hikes; second, revisions to securitization business accounting standards; and third, overheating in the real estate market.”
“Today the telephone takes precedence over everything. It reaches a point of terrorism, particularly at dinnertime.”
“Today the term "global" can no longer constitute a serious topic for an in-depth intellectual discussion because it simply means "Camerica".”
“Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.”
Source: The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary edition
“Today the thing I find myself thinking about the most is our landscape...I think it's something a lot of us take for granted; for many of us Australia is just there but how many of us have really seen it, have seen Kakadu or Kings Canyon? I know I hope to at some stage, to see Uluru at sunset and the ancient art in the Abrakurrie caves. I think it's our landscape which defines our identity and it's what I'm most grateful for.”
“Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood.”
“Today the two hundred million men in our country are entering into a civilized new world...but we, the two hundred million women, are still kept down in the dungeon.”
“Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.”
“Today the U.S. government can demand the nation-wide recall of defective softball bats, sneakers, stuffed animals, and foam-rubber toy cows. But it cannot order a meatpacking company to remove contaminated, potentially lethal ground beef from fast food kitchens and supermarket shelves.”
Source: Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
“Today the United States has admitted that after months and months of searching, we still have no idea where Osama bin Laden is. Osama bin Laden? We can't even find Kenneth Lay.”
“Today the United States has the highest prison population in the world, over 2.1 million people. ... We lock people up at a rate that is seven to ten times that of any other democracy.”
Source: Insecure at Last: Losing It in Our Security-Obsessed World
“Today the universal common good poses problems of world-wide dimensions, which cannot be adequately tackled or solved except by the efforts of public authorities endowed with a wideness of powers, structure and means of the same proportions; that is... on a world-wide basis.”
“Today, the war is not based on the strongest or territorial gains, but on the smartest and only on the economic level.”
“Today the Washington Post did an article; they compared the 2008 presidential election to the 1932 presidential election. They did a comparison, mainly because 1932 was the first time John McCain ran for president.”
“Today the West exists only to bear witness to its own obsolescence.”
“Today the West is awakening to its wants; and the "true self of man and spirit" is the watchword of the advanced school of Western theologians. The student of Sanskrit philosophy knows where the wind is blowing from, but it matters not whence the power comes so longs as it brings new life.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.”
“Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers.”
“Today the whole world depends on communism for its salvation, and China is no exception.”
“Today the word "hero" has been diminished. confused with "celebrity." But in my father's generation the word meant something.
celebrities seek fame. They take actions to get attention. Most often, the actions they take have no particular moral content. Heroes are heroes because they have risked something to help others. Their actions involve courage. Often, those heroes have been indifferent to the public's attention. But at least, the hero could understand the focus of the emotion.”
Source: Flags of Our Fathers