~ November 2012 ~

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Courtesy of Mark A Moment Daily thought for the day www.markamoment.com

1 "Who controls the past controls the

future: who controls the present controls

the past."

2 "All sunshine makes

a desert."

3 "Courage is what it

takes to stand up and speak; courage is

also what it takes to sit down and listen."

4 "Nothing will ever be

attempted, if all possible objections

must first be overcome."

5 "All charming people

have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on others appreciation."

6 "To the mind that is

still, the whole universe

surrenders."

7 "Reason often makes

mistakes, but conscience never

does."

8 "Let us be grateful to

the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only."

9 "To be free is

to have achieved

your life."

10 "If you haven't

forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?"

11 "The unfortunate thing about this

world is that good habits are so much

easier to give up than bad ones."

12 "There is something

wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed

majority assailed by truth."

13 Fashion is something

barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without

benefit."

14 "We cannot play

innocents abroad in a world that is not

innocent."

15 "Distrust all in

whom the impulse to punish is powerful."

16 "Life is not lost by dying; life is lost every minute, by

dragging day, in all the thousand small

uncaring ways."

17 "The love that lasts longest is the love

that is never returned."

18 "Courage is

knowing what not to fear."

19 "An institution is the lengthened shadow

of one man."

20 "Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something

else."

21 "A man is his own easiest dupe, for

what he wishes to be true he generally

believes to be true."

22 "I have made

mistakes, but I have never made the

mistake of claiming that I never made

one."

23 "Absolute justice is

achieved by the suppression of all

contradiction: therefore it destroys

freedom."

24 "He who would

travel happily must travel light."

25 "The influence of

each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality."

26 "Have a heart that

never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts."

27 "Daring ideas are like

chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning

game."

28 "It is not what we

do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable."

29 "Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the

cheapest of pleasures, costs

nothing, and conveys much."

30 "The trouble with

the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."