2025/11/10

Todays Thought

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. 

-Oliver Goldsmith, writer and physician (10 Nov 1730-1774)

Todays Thought

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. 

-Carl Sagan, astronomer and writer (9 Nov 1934-1996)

Arizona Memories from the '50s

2025/11/05

Todays Thought

His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it. 

-Lois McMaster Bujold, writer (b. 2 Nov 1949)

Todays Thought

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. 

-Ella Wheeler Wilcox, poet (5 Nov 1850-1919)

The Execution of Alex Pretti Broke Me