T Quotes
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“Today we're younger than we're ever gonna be”
“today we read of Don Quixote with a bitter taste in the mouth, it is
almost an ordeal, which would make us seem very strange and incomprehensible
to the author and his contemporaries, – they read it with a clear
conscience as the funniest of books, it made them nearly laugh themselves
to death).To see suffering does you good, to make suffer, better still – that
On the Genealogy of Morality
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48 See below, Supplementary material, pp. 153–4.
49 See below, Supplementary material, pp. 137–9, pp. 140–1, pp. 143–4.
50 Don Quixote, Book II, chs 31–7.
is a hard proposition, but an ancient, powerful, human-all-too-human
proposition to which, by the way, even the apes might subscribe: as people
say, in thinking up bizarre cruelties they anticipate and, as it were, act out
a ‘demonstration’ of what man will do. No cruelty, no feast: that is what
the oldest and longest period in human history teaches us – and punishment,
too, has such very strong festive aspects! –”
Source: On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo
“Today we recognize that the emotion of disgust evolved as an unconscious defense against biological contamination.”
Source: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
“Today we reject the notion of equality between a regime that belongs to the democratic world - even if it is conservative and disagreeable - and a totalitarian dictatorship, whether its colors are black, red, or green. This is why we will never again say that Chamberlain is no better than Hitler, Roosevelt no better than Stalin, and Nixon no better than Mao Zedong, even if we do condemn Roosevelt for Yalta, Chamberlain for Munich, and Nixon for Watergate.”
“Today we rule Germany, tomorrow, the world.”
“Today we say all art is political. But I'd say all art has to do with ethics. Which after all really comes to the same thing. It's a matter of attitudes.”
“Today we say goodbye to a proud warrior. As we leave, each of us will take our members of [USS} Midway with us...you guys were the 'Magic.' It was a privilege to sail with you.”
“Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditions, which either can't be treated or cannot be treated economically.”
“Today we see the steady stream from the countryside to the city, deadly for the Volk. The cities swell ever larger, unnerving the Volk and destroying the threads which bind humanity to Nature; they attract adventurers and profiteers of all colours, thereby fostering racial chaos.”
“Today we should make poems including iron and steel And the poet should know how to lead an attack.”
“Today we slaughtered them in the airport. They are out of Saddam International Airport”
“Today we speak, but first we spoke; faucets leak, but never loke. Today we write, but first we wrote; we bite our tongues, but never bote.”
Source: Crazy English
“Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed by the concept of the territorial state; economically and technically, we live under the auspices of worldwide communications and worldwide markets.”
“Today we stand together all around the world, joined in a common purpose - to remake the planet into a haven of joy and understanding and goodness.”
“Today we take it for granted that the Bible is in our language. We forget that the Bible used to not be available to the common man. It's no wonder that TIME magazine recorded the number one event of the last 1,000 years was the Gutenberg printing of the Bible which made this book available in mass form to all people.”
“Today we take it for granted that war happens in smaller, poorer and more backward countries.”
Source: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
“Today we tend to focus on the unemployment rate being low. But just creating jobs isn’t the point. Many of the jobs people have today don’t even pay a living wage. Our focus needs to be on creating wealth, not just jobs or earning a wage.”
“Today we thank God for all the blessings He has bestowed upon this great Country and ask Him to continue to heal our land and meet our needs - and we do so through the power of prayer.”
“Today we traveled back south toward Portland, Oregon. It occurred to me that we were now going toward our home in Florida instead of away from it.
Maybe this concept was why I was feeling unenthusiastic and worn out.”
Source: Alzheimer's Trippin' with George: Diagnosis to Discovery in 10,000 Miles
“Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.”
“Today we understand that reality corresponds to a model - or, even better, the sum of various models - which in science are termed "complex systems" - not complicated or difficult, that's a different thing! This complexity is what creates that which we all know - the World - is connected in a system of networks - and I'm not referring only to the internet but also to thousands of analog networks in which we are all immersed at every instant.”
“Today we understand that the fabric of reality has a lot to do with consciousness, yet we have not really begun to explore this in a practical sense. A new field of study will be created, one that examines the connections between neuroscience, physics, mathematics, computing, and consciousness. #Pataphysics”
Source: Adventures With A.I.: Age of Discovery
“Today we understand that the future of humanity very much depends on our planet, and that the future of the planet very much depends on humanity.”
Source: My Tibet
“Today, we use his star to guide us home,” the ancient little man concluded quietly. “Brighter than any other light in the sky, it reminds us of the sacrifice that one must make to lead as a hero, to hold aloft a flame that might save all, but will ultimately drop the bearer into darkness. No fire can survive forever and one day even the greatest, especially the greatest,
must be extinguished.”
Source: A Memory of Light
“Today we voted as Democrats and Republicans. Tomorrow we begin again as New Yorkers.”
“Today we went over to your mother's friend's house for dinner. We'd asked you to be polite, so you said, "No more, please, it's horrible thank you.”
Source: Goodbye, Vitamin
“Today, we will all need to put forth serious effort to heal the world and transform our hearts. To heal the world implies that we will begin to treat one another with respect and tolerance rather than prejudice, suspicion, and hostility. We shall have to teach our children and ourselves to love the diversity of humanity”
“Today we will read love poetry. You shall read aloud to me and we will weep together.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“Today we're all alike, all of us bound together by our shared apathy toward work. That very apathy has become a passion. The one great collective passion of our time.”
“Today we're dumping 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the environment, and tomorrow we will dump more, and there is no effective worldwide response. Until we start sharply reducing global-warming pollution, I will feel that I have failed.”
“Today we're full of liquidity in money. And what you have to do is to convince big money to change the mindset and reinvest in these new activities to accelerate this change and create new jobs.”
“Today we're seeing fundamental conflicts within political Islam, with the fundamentalists on the one side and the moderates on the other. Who gains the upper hand means a great deal to the world.”
“Today we're seeing that climate change is about more than a few unseasonably mild winters or hot summers. It's about the chain of natural catastrophes and devastating weather patterns that global warming is beginning to set off around the world.. the frequency and intensity of which are breaking records thousands of years old.”
Source: Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House
“Today we've learned to celebrate mediocrity. Back in the day we had creative artists; today we have created artists.”
“Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness.”
“Today, what's normal is being redefined: from vaginal birth to surgical birth; from 'My water broke,' to 'Let's break your water;' from 'It's time' to 'It's time for the induction.' As medical anthropologist Robbie Davis-Floyd writes, 'in the early twenty-first century, we do not know what normal birth is.' Most practicing obstetricians have never witnessed an unplugged birth that wasn't an accident. Women are even beginning to deny normal birth to themselves: if 'normal' means being induced, immobilized by wires and tubes, sped up with drugs, all the while knowing that there's a good chance of surgery, well, might as well just cut to the chase, so to speak. 'Just give me a cesarean,' some are saying. And who can blame them? They want to avoid what they think of as normal birth.”
Source: Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care
“Today what we see is tribes moving into the 21st century and facing real 21st century problems of globalization, of multi-national, national resource development, of jobs, tribes have elected leaderships. They're elected to do a lot of things.”
“Today when a man gets married he gets a home, a housekeeper, a cook, a cheering squad and another paycheck. When a woman marries, she gets a boarder. To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.”
“Today when I begin writing I’m aware: something that I don’t understand drives this engine.”
Source: Death to the death of poetry: essays, reviews, notes, interviews
“Today, when I meet married couples, I always say: Go ahead and argue, break a few plates if you think it helps - to some extent, that's quite normal - but never do it in front of the children, and try to make up before the day is over. Because the real danger is that of the cold war the next day.”
Source: Hope: The Autobiography
“Today when I think about diversity, I actually think about the word “inclusion.” And I think this is a time of great inclusion. It’s not men, it’s not women alone. Whether it’s geographic, it’s approach, it’s your style, it’s your way of learning, the way you want to contribute, it’s your age - it is really broad.”
“Today, when routine cognitive tasks are digitized and automated, and multiple lifetimes worth of information are accessible at our fingertips (much of which rapidly becomes obsolete), the focus of education must shift.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume III - Beta Your Life: Existence in a Disruptive World
“Today when someone shakes hands with Modi & looks into his eyes, they don't see Modi, but the reflection of 125 crore Indians.”
“Today when the Fundamentalists are once more insisting that the fundamentals of fundamentalism are fundamental to our being No. 1 on the Lord's totem pole, it's very brave of you to invite the "resident atheist" of mid-Missouri to share her thoughts with you.”
“Today when the public thinks of the products of science it is likely to think about environmental problems, an unproductive armament industry, careless or dishonest 'scientific' reports, Livermore cheers for 'nukes forever' and a huge amount of self-serving noise on every subject from global warming to 'the face of God'.”
“Today when two people decide upon a thoughtless and precipitate abbreviation of the physical space between them, they think, at least at that moment, that they're mutually attracted and drawn together by an overwhelming force.”
Source: Nonrequired Reading: Prose Pieces
“Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.”
“Today when you meet someone, try not to complain, judge or criticise. The least you can do is to give them love, joy, and put smile on their face.”
“Today whenever women gather together it is not necessarily nurturing. It is coalition building. And if you feel the strain, you may be doing some good work.”
“Today wherever you go, carry the intention of peace, love, and harmony in your heart.”