“Thoughts that have important consequences are always simple. All my thinking could be summed up with these words: “Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same.” It’s as simple as that.”

― Leo Tolstoy

Birthdays:

1632 Albert Schop, German composer. Ach dass diel Hulfe

1638 Gerrit Berckheyde, Dutch Golden Age painter.

1678 Nicola Francesco Haym, Italian composer. Cello Sonata No.1 in A minor

1755 John Flaxman, British sculptor and draughtsman.

1935 Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama.

MISCELLANY:

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FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth

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