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)

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