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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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October 11, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they ”speak with…
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October 10, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” — Aristotle BIRTHDAYS: 1684 Jean-Antoine Watteau, French Rococo painter. 1700 Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor. 1713 Johann Ludwig Krebs, German organist and composer. Präludium und Fuge, d moll (KrebsWV 405) 1731 Henry Cavendish, England,…
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October 9, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the…
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October 8, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life…The government does not, indeed, waylay a man in a lonely place, spring upon him from the road side and, holding a pistol to his head, proceed to rifle his pockets. But the robbery…
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October 7, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Since the State necessarily lives by the compulsory confiscation of private capital, and since its expansion necessarily involves ever-greater incursions on private individuals and private enterprise, we must assert that the state is profoundly and inherently anti-capitalist.” — Murray Rothbard BIRTHDAYS: 1798 Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, French musical instrument inventor, luthier and violin…
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October 6, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” — Benjamin Franklin BIRTHDAYS: 1618 Miguel Gómez Camargo, Spanish baroque composer. Un portugués y un gallego 1846 George Westinghouse, prolific American inventor, engineer, and entrepreneurial industrialist based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania who is best known for…
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October 5, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Successful visionaries start from where they are, what they have, and what their customers have.” — Tom Gilb BIRTHDAYS: 1590 Johann Schop, German composer and violinist, born in Niedersachsen, Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg. Nasce la pena mia, Lachrime Pavaen 1684 Johann Jacob de Neufville, German composer, born in the Free Imperial City…
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October 4, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.” — Winston S. Churchill BIRTHDAYS: 1528 Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer. A un niño llorando al hielo, and Si La Noche Haze Escura 1515 Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter. 1657 Francesco…
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October 3, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.” — Hannah Arendt BIRTHDAYS: 1631 Sebastian Anton Scherer, German composer, born in Ulm, Duchy of Württemberg, Holy Roman Empire. Intonatio Primi Toni 1848 Henry Lerolle,…
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