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Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow.
(Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872), Austrian author. Primislaus, in Libussa, act 3 (1872).)
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The struggle of today, is not altogether for today—it is for a vast future also.
(Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), U.S. president. annual message to Congress, Dec. 3, 1861. Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 5, p. 53, Rutgers University Press (1953, 1990).)
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Not today, O Lord,
O not today, think not upon the fault
My father made in compassing the crown.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. King Henry, in Henry V, act 4, sc. 1, l. 292-4.
Henry IV gained ("compassed") the crown by devious means.)
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Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.
(Tony Benn (b. 1925), British Labour politician. speech, Jan. 31, 1963.)
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Today I think Only with scents,—scents dead leaves
yield,
(Edward Thomas (1878-1917), British poet. Digging (l. 1-2). . .
Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed. (1973) Oxford University Press.)
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Has Michael Finn been in here today?
(Mahatma Kane Jeeves, U.S. screenwriter, and Eddie Eddie. Egbert Sousé (W.C. Fields), The Bank Dick, remark to a bartender (Shemp Howard) to get an extra-strong drink—known as a "Mickey Finn"Mfor unsuspecting bank examiner Mr. Snoop (Franklin J. Pangborn) (1940).)
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Little Marthe did it again today.
(Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), Russian-born U.S. novelist, poet. Invitation to a Beheading, ch. 2 (1959).)
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Today's literature: prescriptions written by patients.
(Karl Kraus (1874-1936), Austrian writer. Trans. by Harry Zohn, originally published in Beim Wort genommen (1955). Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths, University of Chicago Press (1990).)
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Have you hugged your child today?
(Slogan (20th century), U.S. origin.)
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Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did an "act" and he told the audience, "This is my act." Today's comic is not doing an act. The audience assumes he's telling the truth. What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.
(Lenny Bruce (1925-1966), U.S. satirical comedian. "Performing and the Art of Comedy," The Essential Lenny Bruce, ed. John Cohen (1967).)
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