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August 15, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” ― Milan Kundera BIRTHDAYS: 1619 Hubertus Quellinus, Flemish cartoonist and painter. 1702 Francesco Zuccarelli, Italian rococo painter and etcher. 1725 Ferdinando Bertoni, Italian composer. Allegretto, and Sonata in D Major 1736 Johann Christoph Kellner, German organist and composer.…
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August 14, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been too much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking and losing their lives to protect him. They are fighting the sea, fighting the land, fighting disease and insects and weather and space and time, for him, while he…
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August 13, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “In 1946 the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution reading in part, “freedom of information is a fundamental human right, and the touchstone of all the freedoms to which the United Nations is consecrated.” This is our touchstone as well. This is the code of the Voice of America. We…
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August 12, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “What is the human purpose in society? It is to exchange one good for another good more desired. Putting it on a personal basis, it is a matter of benefiting yourself by getting something you desire from another person who, at the same time, benefits himself by getting something that he…
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August 11, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!” ― Robert G. Ingersoll BIRTHDAYS: 1737 Joseph Nollekens, English sculptor. 1833 Robert…
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August 10, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.” ― Adlai Stevenson BIRTHDAYS: 1556 Philipp Nicolai, German Lutheran pastor, poet, composer and hymnodist, born in Mengeringhausen, Landgraviate of Hesse, Holy Roman Empire. Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme 1560 Hieronymus Praetorius, German choral composer,…
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August 9, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time –when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing…
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August 8, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control, and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely. – Pournelle’s law of Bureaucracy.” ― Jerry Pournelle BIRTHDAYS: 1571 John Ward,…
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August 7, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.” ― Alexander Fleming BIRTHDAYS: 1783 John Heathcoat, English inventor of lace-making machinery 1886 Louis Alan Hazeltine, American inventor (neutrodyne circuit, making radio possible) 1925 M. S. Swaminathan, Indian agronomist, agricultural scientist, geneticist, administrator and humanitarian. Swaminathan was a global leader of the…
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August 6, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.” ― Thomas Sowell BIRTHDAYS: 1619 Barbara Strozzi, Italian composer and singer of the Baroque Period. Che si può fare op. 8, and Lagrime Mie, and Begl’occhi…
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