“No days you can borrow, no time you can buy.
No trust in tomorrow. It's a lie.”

— Don McLean

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American Singer and songwriter 1945

Susan Beth Pfeffer (1948) American writer

Source: This World We Live In

““Tomorrow is another day” is something you can say only to yourself, not to the person you want to comfort.”

Fausto Cercignani (1941) Italian scholar, essayist and poet

Examples of self-translation (c. 2004), Quotes - Zitate - Citations - Citazioni

“You can lie or distort the story of the French Revolution as long as you like, and nothing will happen. Propose a false theory in chemistry, and it'll be refuted tomorrow.”

Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist

Quotes 1990s, 1990-1994, Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent, 1992
Context: There is a noticeable general difference between the sciences and mathematics on the one hand, and the humanities and social sciences on the other. It's a first approximation, but one that is real. In the former, the factors of integrity tend to dominate more over the factors of ideology. It's not that scientists are more honest people. It's just that nature is a harsh taskmaster. You can lie or distort the story of the French Revolution as long as you like, and nothing will happen. Propose a false theory in chemistry, and it'll be refuted tomorrow.

“There can be a new tomorrow
There can be a brighter day
There can be a new tomorrow
Love will find a way”

Jackie DeShannon (1941) American singer-songwriter

"Love Will Find A Way" (1968); written with Jimmy Holiday and Randy Myers

“Some people you will always have about you whom you can trust, and no man these days can boast of more than that. Remember them; forget the others.”

Hugh Lofting (1886–1947) British author, trained as a civil engineer

“Can you trust me, he said. Not will you. Can you.
Can I trust him?
What do I have to lose?”

Robin McKinley book Sunshine

Source: Sunshine

“Some of you may be aware our gun laws in the United States don’t make much sense. Anybody can buy any weapon any time — without much if any regulation, they can buy it over the Internet, they can buy machine gun.”

Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America

Comments at VTEX Day digital convention in Sao Paulo, Brazil (30 May 2019) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shx-sXngQUI&t=2182s; also quoted in "Obama tells Brazil: In America ‘anybody can buy any weapon any time", Washington Examiner (31 May 2019)
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