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August 5, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The welfare state is generating citizens who are ill informed, illiterate, innumerate, and uncivil.” ― Richard Salsman BIRTHDAYS: 1397 Guillaume Dufay, Franco-Flemish Renaissance composer and theorist, born in Beersel, Burgundian Netherlands. “Donnes l’assault a la fortresse”, and La belle se siet, and Nuper rosarum flores, and Vergine bella, and Kyrie 1607…
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August 4, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “There’s only one way to improve society. Present it with a single improved unit: yourself.” ― Albert Jay Nock BIRTHDAYS: 1502 Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish artist, architect and designer of tapestries and stained glass (court painter to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V) 1755 Nicolas-Jacque Conte, French painter and inventor (modern…
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August 3, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The recognition of the fact that Congress has no resources of its own forces us to acknowledge that the only way Congress can give one American one dollar is to first, through intimidation, threats, and coercion, confiscate that dollar from some other American. If a private citizen did the same thing…
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August 2, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Often we only realize we have a problem once we see a solution to it.” ― Christian Busch BIRTHDAYS: 1627 Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten, Dutch Golden Age painter, who was also a poet and author on art theory. 1754 Pierre Charles L’Enfant, French-American artist, professor, and military engineer who in 1791…
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August 1, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge,…
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July 31, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.” ― Kurt Vonnegut BIRTHDAYS: 1595 Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor and architect. 1804 John Ericsson, Swedish-American engineer and inventor. 1828 François-Auguste Gevaert, Belgian composer 1830 František Zdeněk Skuherský, Czech composer. Nocturne 1912 Milton Friedman, American…
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July 30, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Well, I’m not here to impinge on anybody else’s lifestyle. If I’m in a place where I know I’m going to harm somebody’s health or somebody asks me to please not smoke, I just go outside and smoke. But I do resent the way the nonsmoking mentality has been imposed on…
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July 29, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.” ― Karl R. Popper BIRTHDAYS: 1646 Johann Theile, German composer (Adam und Eva), born in Naumburg, Hesse-Homburg. Matthäus Passion, and Nun, ich singe! Gott ist knie 1796 Walter Hunt, American mechanical engineer (and inventor of the safety pin).…
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July 28, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Keep in mind that it is hubris to think that we know how to save the Earth: our planet looks after itself. All we can do is try to save ourselves.” ― James Lovelock BIRTHDAYS: 1609 Judith Leyster, Dutch Golden Age painter, born and baptized in Haarlem, Dutch Republic 1824 Jacopo…
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July 27, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.” ― Carl Jung BIRTHDAYS: 1502 Francesco Corteccia, Italian composer, born in Florence, Florentine Republic. Il Concerto dei Fiati, and Tenebræ Factæ Sunt, and Bacco, Bacco 1667 Jean Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician. 1852 Edward Onslow Ford, English sculptor 1877…
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