Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now
“We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences.”
Source: My Inventions (1919)
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“If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.”
John Dewey (1859–1952) American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer
“Yesterday's snow job becomes today's sermon.”
Kurt Vonnegut book Player Piano
Source: Player Piano (1952), Chapter 9 (p. 93)
Context: "Strange business," said Lasher. "This crusading spirit of the managers and engineers, the idea of designing and manufacturing and distributing being sort of a holy war: all that folklore was cooked up by public relations and advertising men hired by managers and engineers to make big business popular in the old days, which it certainly wasn't in the beginning. Now, the engineers and managers believe with all their hearts the glorious things their forebears hired people to say about them. Yesterday's snow job becomes today's sermon."
“Applause we crave, from scorn we take defence
But have no armour 'gainst indifference.”
Robertson Davies (1913–1995) Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and novelist
A Prologue (1939) to Oliver Goldsmith's The Good Natur'd Man (1768).
Context: Our fate lies in your hands, to you we pray
For an indulgent hearing of our play;
Laugh if you can, or failing that, give vent
In hissing fury to your discontent;
Applause we crave, from scorn we take defence
But have no armour 'gainst indifference.
“Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.”
Ann Brashares The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher
Mohamed ElBaradei (1942) Egyptian law scholar and diplomat, former Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and Nobel …
Nobel lecture (2005)
Context: There are three main features to this changing landscape: the emergence of an extensive black market in nuclear material and equipment; the proliferation of nuclear weapons and sensitive nuclear technology; and the stagnation in nuclear disarmament.
Today, with globalization bringing us ever closer together, if we choose to ignore the insecurities of some, they will soon become the insecurities of all.
