To be sure, people had heard of income taxes abroad and of their efficacy (just as we today hear about VATs in Europe).
And they would rightly judge us as harshly as we today judge the British and the French for what they did at Munich in 1938.
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One day, decades from now, people may look back on our reckless consumption of soft drinks and chips in the same way that we today look back at a three-pack-a-day smoking habit.
So we will approach today understanding how deeply people feel, we will approach today giving every opportunity for legitimate protest but we will not tolerate violence.
What we discussed here today was not totally new, but what we discussed here today was a way forward.
Today we will see the result of this talking and communication -- today we sign.
This is one of few problems we face today that we could actually solve.
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Are we doing today what we need to do in order to matter tomorrow?
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We're very long, and we're very active, and when we're active like we were today, we're hard to score on.
Mr. ARKIN: Well, we - today, we've looked at the apparatus of the government, the sort of what drives top secret America.
As we gather today, we remember them, and the millions of innocent mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters who fell victim to Nazi extremism.
If we do today what we have failed to do in the past, we very may well default on a portion of our debt.
And we try to connect visitors to who we are today when we perform them, ' explains Treffrey, gazing over the verdant tree-lined valley the Siksika have called home for centuries.
"If you go back in history, and look at the beginning of Iraq, and what they've been through with Saddam Hussein, we wouldn't be the people we are today if we lived the way they have lived, " Robbins says.
Obviously one the things we have today is that we have a 24-hour news cycle, we have 24-hour cable and so forth.
But the to-do list that we have today, that we have Saturday and Sunday, will be largely the same that we have on Monday.
The courage, the patriotism, the compassion that drove them to act are the same qualities we need today, as we seek to answer the questions of our own time.
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On the broader issue of Afghanistan, I would make this point -- if you compare where we are today with where we've been two, three years ago, the situation is considerably improved.
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However, today we have 7.5 million fewer private sector jobs today than we did before the recession.
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And while we once led the world in the proportion of college graduates we produced, today we no longer do.
Yep--our financial position in 5, 10 and 30 years rides on what we believe today and the actions we'll take because of those beliefs.
And when it comes to change, the world we see today and the world we saw two or three or four months ago is rarely very different.
It is the call we hear today, and as we come together to celebrate our national heritage, let us reaffirm our promise to preserve America's treasures for the generations yet to come.
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All these things together require that we get a health care act reform passed in the Senate, a better one than we have today, and that we also get a clean air act passed.
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"Left unchecked, power generation and heat would have limited the devices we build today and the ones we could imagine in the future, " says Otellini, who recently ascended to the chief executive post at Intel .
Again, I'll wait for my colleagues here to brief on the SPA. What I will say is that the Strategic Partnership Agreement that we reached today was something that we negotiated for 20 months with the Afghans.
"Left unchecked, power generation and heat would have limited the devices we build today and the ones we could imagine in the future, " says Otellini, who recently ascended to the chief executive post at Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ).
Our current debt crisis we face today is different, but we still need all of us to pull together.
So much has happened -- and yet the government we have today is largely the government we had back then.
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