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June 15, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”French economist/philosopher Frederic Bastiat (1801–50) gave a test for immoral government acts: “See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.” ― Walter E. Williams BIRTHDAYS: 1594 Nicolas Poussin, French painter. 1734 Johann Ernst Altenburg, German…
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June 14, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out,Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out,Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out,Because I was not…
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June 13, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.” ― Richard Feynman BIRTHDAYS: 1539 Jost Amman, Swiss cartoonist, graphic artist and illustrator. 1592 Tobias Michael, German composer, born in Dresden, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire. In Angst und Not, and Fürchte Dich nicht, and…
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June 12, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.” ― Thomas Sowell BIRTHDAYS: 1468 Juan del Encina, Spanish author and composer. Amor con fortuna, and Pues que Jamás Olvidaros, and Qu’es de ti, desconsolado? 1802 Harriet Martineau, British controversial journalist, political economist, abolitionist and life-long…
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June 11, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Neither can his mind be thought to be in tune, whose words do jarre; nor hisreason in frame, whose sentence is preposterous.” ― Ben Jonson BIRTHDAYS: 1572 Ben Jonson, English playwright and poet. 1672 Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and amateur composer. ‘Invenzione’ IV in G minor, Op. X, and Aria cromatica…
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June 10, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” ― H.L. Mencken BIRTHDAYS: 1819 Gustave Courbet, French realist painter. 1831 W. A. Remy [Wilhelm Mayer], Austro-Bohemian composer, born in Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia. Leuchtende Sterne, Op.22 No.1 1832 Nicolaus Otto, German engineer who successfully developed the compressed charge internal combustion…
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June 9, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Facing a non-violent opposition, a totalitarian regime will not retreat a single step; instead it will always display it’s essential nature, retaliating with brute force, whatever the cost in human lives and human liberty.” ― Ai Weiwei BIRTHDAYS: 1588 Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer, born in the Free Imperial City of…
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June 8, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The modern words “brainwashing,” “thought control,” and “menticide” serve to provide a clearer conception of the actual methods by which man’s integrity can be violated. When a concept is given its right name, it can be more easily recognized—and it is with this recognition that the opportunity for systematic correction begins.”…
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June 7, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The Romans’ contribution to science was mostly limited to butchering antiquity’s greatest mathematician, burning the Library of Alexandria, and slowly stifling the sciences that flourished in the colonies of their Empire.” ― Petr Beckmann BIRTHDAYS: 1848 Paul Gauguin, French painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer, whose work has been primarily associated with…
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June 6, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The first gas chambers were constructed in 1939, to implement a Hitler decree dated September 1 of that year, which said that “incurably sick persons should be granted a mercy death.” (It was probably this “medical” origin of gassing that inspired Dr. Servatius’s amazing conviction that killing by gas must be…
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