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Today Quotes - Page 74

Even today few scientists and perhaps even fewer nonscientists realize that science is a method and nothing else.

Carroll Quigley (1979). “The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis”, Liberty Fund Inc.

She already had a headache-she didn't want to add 'get tortured' to today's to-do list.

C. C. Hunter (2011). “Born at Midnight”, p.169, St. Martin's Griffin

Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.

Address at the unveiling of his portrait in the South Carolina Legislature, Columbia, S.C., 16 Apr. 1947. The term cold war was popularized by Baruch's speech and by Walter Lippmann's 1947 book with that title. An earlier use was by George Orwell writing in the Tribune, 19 Oct. 1945 (see Orwell for this and still older antecedents). Baruch credited speechwriter Herbert Bayard Swope with supplying him with this phrase in 1946 (in a draft speech about United States - Soviet relations). See Orwell

The US government decided today that because I did such a good job investigating the cyber-industrial complex, they’re now going to send me to investigate the prison-industrial complex.

"Barrett Brown sentenced to 63 months for 'merely linking to hacked material'" by Nicky Woolf, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2015.

The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether government works.

Barack Obama (2009). “The Inaugural Address, 2009: Together with Abraham Lincoln's First and Second Inaugural Addresses and The Gettysburg Address and Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self-Reliance”, p.11, Penguin