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October 21, 2024
“I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.” — Thomas Sowell BIRTHDAYS: 1581 Domenichino [Domenico Zampieri], Italian Baroque painter. 1751 David Moritz Michael, Moravian conductor and composer, (Die Wasserfahrt -The Water Journey), born in Kühnhausen, Prussia.…
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October 20, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.” — Friedrich von Hayek BIRTHDAYS: 1435 Andrea Della Robbia,…
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October 19, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences.” — Robert G. Ingersoll BIRTHDAYS: 1931 John le Carré, English novelist (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold). MISCELLANEOUS: COULD THIS IN ANY WAY BE RELATED TO THEIR FORM OF GOVERNMENT? Island-wide blackout sweeps Cuba after power plant…
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October 18, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.” — H.L. Mencken BIRTHDAYS: 1634 Luca Giordano, Italian painter and printmaker, born in Naples, Kingdom of Naples, Spanish Empire. 1697 Giovanni Canaletto, Italian painter (Regatta on the Grand Canal) and…
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October 17, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.” — Colin Powell BIRTHDAYS: 1577 Cristofano Allori, Italian Mannerist…
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October 16, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” — Carl Sagan, Broca’s Brain BIRTHDAYS: 1622 Paul Puget, French artist. 1679 Jan Dismas Zelenka, Bohemian composer, born in Louňovice, Lands of the Bohemian Crown. Hypocondrie 1758 Noah Webster, American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and author. 1854 Oscar Wilde, Irish poet…
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October 15, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may…
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October 14, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.” — Hannah Arendt BIRTHDAYS: 1644 William Penn, English writer, religious thinker, and influential Quaker who founded the Province of Pennsylvania during the British colonial era. 1906 Hannah Arendt, German-American historian and philosopher.…
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October 13, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The road to wisdom?— Well, it’s plainand simple to express:Errand errand err againbut lessand lessand less.” — Piet Hein BIRTHDAYS: 1474 Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian painter. 1652 Johann Heinrich Kittel, German composer, born in Dresden, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire. Präludium G-Dur, and Praeludio pro Organo pleno a moll 1713 Allan…
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October 12, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even specially, the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities.” — Allan Bloom BIRTHDAYS: 1686…
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