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August 21, 2023
“It is clearly absurd to limit the term ‘education’ to a person’s formal schooling.” ― Murray N. Rothbard 1725 Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter 1879 Claude Grahame-White, early aviation pioneer 1967 Stéphane Charbonnier, editor of the French weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. 1973 Sergey Brin, American computer scientist, internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist MISCELLANY: HE’S NOT WRONG.…
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August 20, 2023
“The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of men, and thus to dehumanize them. And one can debate long and profitably on the rule of Nobody, which is what the political form known as bureau-cracy truly is….we have…
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August 19, 2023
“Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.” ― Adam Smith 1580 Pierre Vernier, French mathematician, inventor of the vernier caliper used for taking accurate measurements 1621 Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter 1808 James Nasmyth, Scottish engineer and inventor of the steam hammer 1824 Georg Goltermann, German cellist and composer. Rêverie op. 54,…
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August 18, 2023
“I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.” ― Thomas Paine 1750 Antonio Salieri, Italian composer…
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August 17, 2023
“French economist/philosopher Frederic Bastiat (1801–50) gave a test for immoral government acts: “See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.” ― Walter E. Williams 1578 Francesco Albani, Italian painter. 1686 Nicola Antonio Porpora, Italian composer and teacher of singing…
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August 16, 2023
“Abundance is not about providing everyone on this planet with a life of luxury—rather it’s about providing all with a life of possibility.” ― Peter H. Diamandis 1761 Yevstigney Fomin, Russian opera composer. Aplausos Furia de la ópera “Orfeo y Eurídice” 1795 Heinrich August Marschner, German opera composer. The Vampyr (Overture) 1845 Gabriel Lippmann, French…
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August 15, 2023
“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.” ― Bruce Lee 1725 Ferdinando Bertoni, Italian composer. Sonata in D Major 1771 Walter Scott, Scottish historian, novelist, poet, and playwright. 1857 Albert Ballin, German inventor and shipping tycoon. 1902 Jan Campert, Dutch resistance fighter and poet. 1912 Julia Child, American chef, author and…
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August 14, 2023
“If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, compromises on principles are the street lights.” ― Garry Kasparov 1868 Leone Sinigaglia, Italian composer. “La Tregua”, and “O falce di luna” 1714 Claude-Joseph Vernet, French painter. 1777 Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist and chemist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields, which was the…
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August 13, 2023
“What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.” ― Alfred Hitchcock 1422 William Caxton, English merchant, diplomat and writer. 1655 Johann Christoph Denner, German musician and inventor (clarinet) 1831 Salomon Jadassohn, German pianist and composer. Capriccio D minor Op. 137, and Concerto for Piano & Orchestra No.1 Op.89 in C minor –…
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August 12, 2023
“As soon as I learned from my mother that there was a place called school that I must attend willy nilly — a place where you were obliged to think about matters prescribed by a ‘teacher,’ not about matters decided by yourself—I was appalled.” ― Fred Hoyle 1626 Giovanni Legrenzi, Venetian Baroque organist and composer.…
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