“Back in 1960, the paper dollar and the silver dollar both were the same value. They circulated next to each other. Today? The paper dollar has lost 95% of its value, while the silver dollar is worth $34, and produced a 2-3 times rise in real value. Since we left the gold standard in 1971, both gold and silver have become superior inflation hedges.” RealTodayValuesNextLostLeftPaperStandardsGoldDollarsSuperiorsSilverInflation1960sReal ValueGold And SilverGold Standard Author:Mark Skousen
“Gone are the days when your indiscretions at university were recorded in a roneoed college newsletter of which there is only one copy left tucked in a filing cabinet at the back of a library. Today that same college newsletter is online, accessible by the whole world now and forever.” WorldWholeTodayLeftGoneForeverCollegeLibraryUniversityWhole WorldOnlineCopiesCabinetsFilingNewslettersFiling Cabinet Author:Malcolm Turnbull
“So many women today have become so focused on their children, they've developed these romantic entanglements with their children's lives, and the husbands are secondary. They're left out. And the romantic focus is on the children.” ChildrenTodayLeftFocusHusbandFocusedLeft OutEntanglement Author:Ayelet Waldman
“As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today, however, he is thought to have been a solidly good president, a 'Near Great' even, in the terminology of those surveys of historians they do every now and then.” MayHas BeensWarTodayLeftPresidentThanksHistorianNow And ThenRecallsKoreanSurveysTerminologyTrumanKorean War Author:Thomas Frank
“The most important man in my life is and always will be Alain Delon. He is always there when I need a shoulder to cry on… even today Alain is the only man I can count on. He would always help me. Only Alain shaped me as a woman. Even though he hurt me a lot when he left me I also matured because of it.” MenNeedsI CanImportantHelpingTodayLife IsLeftHurtCryShouldersHelp MeHurt MeMaturedHe Left MeShoulder To Cry OnHe Hurt Me Author:Romy Schneider
“There is always anxiety before a competition and it was no different for me today. It was only in the third round, with about 40 targets left, that I realised I could match the world record score.” WorldDifferentTodayLeftRecordsAnxietyThirdsCompetitionRoundsScoreTargetRealisedWorld Records Author:Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
“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?.” IfsKnowsTodayFacesJesusLeftHeavenBehindsForeverReturnPromiseJudgmentBibleFaithfulGloriousDo You KnowFollowersWrathLeft Behind Author:Billy Graham
“Our commitment to this founding principle is especially relevant today. Americans are united as rarely before in compassion and generosity for our fellow citizens whose lives have been devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The powerful winds and floodwater of Katrina tore away the mask that has hidden from public view the many Americans who are left out and left behind.” Has BeensTodayLeftUnitedViewsPowerfulBehindsCompassionPrinciplesWindCitizensCommitmentFellowsGenerosityMaskRelevantFoundingLeft BehindHurricanesLeft OutDevastatedKatrinaHurricane Katrina Author:Edward Kennedy
“Today we live in a world that judges its achievements by speed and busyness. We are so busy making things happen that we have little time left to think about the value of what is happening. We urgently need people who concentrate on the meaning of life rather than simply the speed.” PeopleThinkingWorldNeedsLittlesHappensTodayValuesLeftJudgingAchievementHappeningsBusySpeedThings HappenMeaning Of LifeLittle TimeTime LeftLittle Time Left Author:Joan D. Chittister
“We are in a crisis today because the practical consensus between the left and the right, linking economic efficiency with social protection, has broken down” TodayLeftSocialEconomicBrokenCrisisProtectionPracticalsEfficiencyConsensusBroken DownEconomic Efficiency Author:Andre Glucksmann
“The small town is passing. It was the incubator that hatched all our big men, and that's why we haven't got as many big men today as we used to have. Take every small-town-raised leader out of business and you would have nobody left running it but vice-presidents.” MenBigsRunningTodayUsedLeftPresidentBusinessLeaderHavensTownsRaisedVicesPassingPassingsSmall TownVice PresidentPassing It Author:Will Rogers
“Through books you can start today where the great thinkers of yesterday left off, because books have immortalized man's knowledge. Thinkers, dead a thousand years, are as alive in their books today as when they walked the earth.” MenYearsBookMotivationalTodayEarthLeftAliveThousandYesterdayThinkerThousand YearsGreat Thinkers Author:Wilferd Peterson
“We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths - that all of us are created equal - is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall; just as it guided all those men and women, sung and unsung, who left footprints along this great Mall, to hear a preacher say that we cannot walk alone; to hear a King proclaim that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth.” PeopleMenStillsSoulTodayEarthFallIndividualLeftStarsWalksKingsEqualMen And WomenBoundsGuidesPreacherEvidentFootprintMallsIndividual Freedom Author:Barack Obama
“The word "souvenir" has, of course, slightly extended itself in meaning until it now denotes almost anything either breakable or useless; but even today, ninety per cent of the items covered by the word are forgettable objects in which cigarettes can be left to go stale.” TodayCoursesLeftObjectsUselessCoveredCentsCigaretteNinetyItemsStaleSouvenirsForgettable Book:Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren Source: Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren
“Today there really aren't that many Fundamentalists left; I don't know if you know that or not, but they are such a minority; there aren't that many Fundamentalists left in America. ... Now the word "fundamentalist" actually comes from a document in the 1920s called the Five Fundamentals of the Faith . And it is a very legalistic, narrow view of Christianity, and when I say there are very few fundamentalists, I mean in the sense that they are all actually called fundamentalist churches, and those would be quite small. There are no large ones.” IfsKnowsMeanWould BeTodayAmericaLeftChurchViewsChristianityFiveFundamentalsMinoritiesDocumentsFundamentalist Author:Rick Warren
“In ancient times there was no public education, except that of the forum, the theater, and the street, and the general degree of illiteracy was very high. The early men of science were left very much to themselves and such a phrase as "the scientific culture of Alexandria in the third century B.C." does not cover any reality. In a sense, this is still true today; the real pioneers are so far ahead of the crowd (even a very literate crowd) that they remain almost alone.” MenDoeStillsRealRealityTodayCultureLeftStreetsCenturyDegreesThirdsTheaterAncientCrowdsPhrasesPioneersPublic EducationForumsIlliteracyAncient TimesAlexandria Author:George Sarton
“Yesterday the Soros -funded far left group Media Matters made a big issue of Pat Robertson's idiotic statement that the US should assassinate Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez. Today Robertson's comment is all over mainstream media. Are we supposed to think it's news that Robertson has a few screws loose?” ThinkingShouldMadeMatterBigsTodayLeftIssuesGroupsMediaNewsYesterdayStatementsCommentMainstreamDictatorScrewsIdioticMainstream MediaChavezVenezuelans Author:Charles Foster Johnson
“I am a Republican because I believe in the constitution, strength in national defense, limited government, individual freedom, and personal responsibility as the concrete foundation for American government. They reinforce the resolve that the United States is the greatest country in the world and we can all be eternally grateful to our founding fathers for the beautiful legacy they left us today.” WorldBelieveCountryStatesGovernmentTodayBeautifulFatherIndividualLeftI BelieveUnitedResponsibilityUnited StatesRepublicanConstitutionFoundationGratefulI Believe InDefenseLegacyResolveConcreteFoundingPersonal ResponsibilityOur Founding FathersLimited GovernmentAmerican GovernmentIndividual FreedomNational Defense Author:Martha Raye
“The new coherent picture is not yet available. With all their immense empirical success, G(eneral)R(elativity) and Q(uantum)M(echanics) have left us with an understanding of the physical world which is unclear and badly fragmented. At the foundations of physics there is today confusion and incoherence.” WorldTodayLeftUnderstandingFoundationAvailablePhysicsConfusionImmenseFragmentedUnclearIncoherence Author:Carlo Rovelli
“There was kind of a code that you had as an Australian that you never left the court losing unless you had blood all over you. That's the sort of toughness you need to compete on the world stage and I feel that our kids today just don't have it.” WorldNeedsFeelsKindKidsTodayLeftBloodStageLosingCourtCodeOver YouAustralianToughness Author:John Newcombe
“Today in Washington, D.C., several government buildings were left without power. Of course, the White House will be without power for two more years.” YearsTwoGovernmentTodayCoursesHouseLeftWhiteBuildingWhite House Author:Conan O'Brien
“My fans are grown now. They are not expecting me to do the bubblegum pop I did 20 years ago, even though it was pretty substantive. It was saying more than bubblegum pop says today. I am continuing where I left off.” YearsTodayLeftFansYears AgoPopsExpectingContinuing Author:Irene Cara
“It is today an accepted principle of golfing architecture that the tiger should be teased and trapped and tested, while the rabbit should be left to peace, since he can make his own hell for himself.” ShouldTodayLeftPrinciplesHellGolfArchitectureAcceptedTrappedTigersTestedRabbitsGolfing Author:Bernard Darwin
“I'm so tired of the left trying to divide us by race. One of the things I said today in my speech, we're not Indian-Americans, African-Americans, Irish-Americans, rich Americans, poor Americans. We're all Americans.” TryingSaidTodayLeftPoorRaceRichSpeechTiredAfrican AmericanIndianDividesAmerican Indian Author:Bobby Jindal
“We know Jesus taught that if someone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to the left. We know that Mohammed was sacked from his village and stoned at Ta'if, but he quietly left for Medina. If both of these men, beaten, and bloodied-the incarnations of their respective faiths-asked God to forgive their aggressors, then who were today's religious leaders to advocate holy war?” IfsKnowsMenWarTodayTurnsJesusLeftReligiousLeaderTaughtHolyForgivingVillageCheeksBeatenIncarnationSlapAggressorsReligious LeadersHoly WarMedina Author:Eliza Griswold
“Today, I say that no nation in the world need be left out of the global system we are constructing.” WorldNeedsTodayLeftNationsLeft Out Author:Madeleine Albright
“This country has attained 'Swarajya', but unfortunately the dream of 'Surajya' is left unfulfilled. Today, if there is any major challenge before this country, it is that of a 'Surajya' and since the last decade, Gujarat is working in the direction of attaining Surajya.” IfsCountryDreamTodayLastsLeftChallengesDemocracyMajorsIndiaElectionDecadesGujarat Author:Narendra Modi
“People used to complain about 'the idle rich.' But the idle rich did not do the kind of harm being done by today's busybody rich, who feed their own egos by bankrolling political crusades on the left which hurt the very people that the left claims to care about -- working people, minorities, and children.” PeopleKindChildrenDoneCareTodayPoliticalUsedLeftHurtRichEgoClaimsHarmComplainingMinoritiesIdleCrusadesBeing DoneBusybodies Author:Thomas Sowell
“Western traditions of education have emphasized knowledge analysis, description and debate. They all have a part to play, but today there is a whole vast aspect of doing that has just been left out. Operacy is what keeps society going.” PlayWholeTodayLeftEducationAspectTraditionWesternDebateAnalysisDescriptionLeft Out Author:Edward de Bono
“For all the venom and fear spewed at members of the 'religious right,' most of today's churches are left alone... the nonreligious tend to look at our churches as benign institutions that create a placid and docile citizenry, having little impact on our culture.” LooksLittlesTodayChristianCultureLeftChurchReligiousMembersInstitutionsImpactLeft AloneBenignCitizenryVenomDocilePlacid Author:Kay Coles James
“In The 3rd Alternative, Stephen Covey urges us to chart a course beyond the suboptimal solutions to all our crises - beyond left and right, and beyond the many false choices in front of us. The 3rdAlternative is a wise and welcome echo of Einstein's warning that the problems we're facing today cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.” ThinkingProblemTodayChoicesCoursesLeftLevelsWiseFrontsSolutionsCrisisWelcomeAlternativesUrgesWarningEchoesLeft And Right Author:Arianna Huffington
“As a writer, politician, scientist, and businessman, [Ben] Franklin had few equals among the educated of his day-though he left school at ten. (...)Boys like Andrew Carnegie who begged his mother not to send him to school and was well on his way to immortality and fortune at the age of thirteen, would be referred today for psychological counseling; Thomas Edison would find himself in Special Ed until his peculiar genius had been sufficiently tamed.” WayWellsWould BeAgeTodaySchoolMotherLeftBoysSpecialGeniusPoliticianTenScientistFortunePsychologicalEducatedImmortalityPeculiarBusinessmanFranklinThirteenAndrewCounselingTamedCarnegieBen Franklin Author:John Taylor Gatto
“An inert historical fact is any fact about a perfectly ordinary arrangement of matter in the world at some point in the past that is no longer discernible, a fact that has left no footprints at all in the world today.” WorldMatterFactsTodayPastLeftOrdinaryHistoricalArrangementsWorld TodayFootprintHistorical Facts Book:Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking Source: Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking
“I guess he was such an open, emotional vessel that I think he tapped into human nature, so it just left people wondering what would have happened. I think James Dean would be 83 today. He could be here, what would he be doing?” PeopleThinkingHumansWould BeTodayLeftNatureWonderHappenedHuman NatureEmotionalVesselDean Author:Dane DeHaan