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May 31, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Like all cults, this new one adeptly represses heresy. . . . In defiance of the Western scientific tradition, which maintains that skepticism of inferences drawn from observation is always in order, and that all accepted conclusions are always subject to review and potential overthrow by new data, the climate catastrophists…
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May 30, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Belief gets in the way of learning.” ― Robert A. Heinlein BIRTHDAYS: 1578 Valentin Dretzel, German composer. Capriccio in a 1623 Wallerant Vaillant, French painter and engraver. 1892 Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter. 1900 James A. Parsons, American metallurgist and inventor (stainless steel). MISCELLANY: I WAS BEGINNING TO WONDER IF ANYONE WAS…
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May 29, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”How are we to live in an atomic age?” Lewis asks. “I am tempted to reply: ‘Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land and…
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May 28, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Any human endeavor rooted in the pursuit of truth must rely on fact and not feelings.” ― Gad Saad BIRTHDAYS: 1830 Carl Filtsch, Transylvanian child piano prodigy, and composer. Adieu. 1840 Hans Makart, Austrian painter 1841 Giovanni Sgambati, Italian pianist and composer. Gondoliera. 1853 Carl Larsson, Swedish painter 1858 Carl Richard…
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May 27, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”My definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree?…how much of what I earn belongs to you–and why?” ― Walter Williams BIRTHDAYS: 1799 Fromental Halévy, French composer. Le voici donc enfin l’instant de la vengeance 1837 Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and…
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May 26, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Liberty is the essential basis, the sine qua non, of morality. Morality can only exist in a free society, it can exist to the extent freedom exists.” ― Henry Hazlitt BIRTHDAYS: 1098 Hildegard von Bingen, German Benedictine abbess and polymath active as a writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, and as a…
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May 25, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson BIRTHDAYS: 1494 Pontormo, Italian Mannerist painter and…
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May 24, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there’s no place for it in the endeavor of science. We do not know beforehand where fundamental insights will arise from about our mysterious and lovely solar system. The…
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May 23, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Home is not where you live, but where they understand you.” ― Christian Morgenstern BIRTHDAYS: 1620 Pieter Neefs, the Younger, Flemish painter (church interiors). 1696 Johann Caspar Vogler, German composer and organist. Machs mit mir, Gott, nach deiner Gut, and Jesu Leiden, Pein und Tod 1707 Carl Linnaeus, Swedish biologist and physician…
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May 22, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Whatever you do, don’t doubt yourself because of others. That’s the only thing I want to impress upon you, as strongly as I can.” ― Ayn Rand BIRTHDAYS: 1759 Gervais-François Couperin, French organist and composer. Andante (from Sonata Op.1 nº1), and Benedictus de la Messe à L’usage des Paroisses à l’orgue…
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