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April 16, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”It constantly amazes me that defenders of the free market are expected to offer certainty and perfection while government has only to make promises and express good intentions. Many times, for instance, I’ve heard people say, “A free market in education is a bad idea because some child somewhere might fall…
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April 15, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Those who claim to be hurt by words must be led to expect nothing as compensation. Otherwise, once they learn they can get something by claiming to be hurt, they will go into the business of being offended.” ― Jonathan Rauch BIRTHDAYS: 1452 Leonardo da Vinci, Italian polymath of the High…
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April 14, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not desire.” ― Lysander Spooner BIRTHDAYS: 1629 Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor who is regarded as a key figure in the Scientific Revolution. 1638 Diogo Dias Melgás, Portuguese composer of late-Renaissance…
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April 13, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The idea that the government has services or goods that they can pass on is a complete farce. Governments have nothing. They can’t create anything, they never have. All they can do is steal from one group and give it to another at the destruction of the principles of freedom, and…
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April 12, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The demoralization that the debasement of the currency left in its wake played a major role in bringing Adolf Hitler into power in 1933.” ― Henry Hazlitt BIRTHDAYS: 1716 Felice Giardini, Italian composer. Concerto op.15 n.1 1801 Joseph Franz Karl Lanner, Austrian composer and violinist. “Abendsterne”, Walzer, op.180 1831 Constantin Meunier,…
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April 11, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The man who is not permitted to own is owned.” ― George Santayana BIRTHDAYS: 1661 Antoine Coypel, French painter and poet. 1681 Anne Danican Philidor, French composer. Sonata pour la flute à bec – Lentement, and Sonate en ré mineur pour flûte alto, par l’ensemble Amarillis 1682 Jean-Joseph Mouret, French composer.…
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April 10, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Liberty is no less a blessing because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.” ― Lucretia Mott BIRTHDAYS: 401 Theodosius II, Roman emperor from 402 to 450. 1583 Hugo Grotius, Dutch humanist, diplomat, lawyer, theologian, jurist, statesman, poet and playwright. 1737 Francois Giroust, French composer.…
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April 9, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”People and institutions that refuse to admit error eventually discredit themselves.” ― Jeffrey Tucker BIRTHDAYS: 1806 Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British civil engineer and mechanical engineer. 1864 Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti, English electrical engineer and inventor. 1919 J. Presper Eckert, Jr., American engineer and co-inventor (1st electronic computer-ENIAC). 1928 Tom Lehrer, American…
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April 8, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.” ― Frederick Douglass BIRTHDAYS: 1533 Claudio Merulo, Italian organist and composer. Toccata prima del primo tono, and Qui manducat meam carnem, and La Bovia, and Toccata dell’Undecimo detto Quinto Tuono 1692 Giuseppe Tartini,…
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April 7, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Honoring the value of competence and steadfastness requires a generosity of spirit and a curbing of the passion for envy, traits that few people value and fewer still cultivate and acquire. Not until there is more of Smith and less of Hobbes in the human heart, will the majority of people…
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