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November 10, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”You do not become a ”dissident” just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position…
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November 9, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”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.…
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November 8, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”To know that you do not know is the best.To think you know when you do not is a disease.Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it” — Lao Tzu BIRTHDAYS: 1491 Teofilo Folengo, Italian macaronic poet. 1592 Domenico Mazzocchi, Italian Baroque composer, born in Civita Castellana,…
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November 7, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your…
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November 6, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.” — Abraham Lincoln BIRTHDAYS: 1566 Julien Perrichon, French composer and lutenist of the late Renaissance.. Courante. 1753 Jean-Baptiste…
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November 5, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” — Plato BIRTHDAYS: 1666 Attilio Ariosti, Italian baroque composer (Court of Kingdom of Prussia, 1697-1703), viola d’amore player, and harpsichordist, born in Bologna, Papal States. Viola d’amore Sonata no.18 in d minor 1885 Will Durant, American historian and philosopher, best…
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November 4, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the…
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November 3, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass…
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November 2, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.” — Thomas Sowell BIRTHDAYS: 1692 Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch nobleman who was a diplomat as well as a…
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November 1, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Are your minds working to complain? Or, are your minds working to solve the problem.” — Hotep Jesus BIRTHDAYS: 1500 Benvenuto Cellini, Italian sculptor, goldsmith and author (Perseus). 1585 Jan Brożek, physician, astronomer, and the most prominent Polish mathematician of his era and an early biographer of Copernicus. 1636 Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux,…
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