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February 16, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Intellectual freedom is essential — freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate and freedom from pressure by officialdom and prejudices. Such freedom of thought is the only guarantee against an infection of people by mass myths, which, in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues, can…
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February 15, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in…
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February 14, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”To make a contented slave, you must make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate his power of reason. He must be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery. The man that takes his earnings, must be able…
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February 12, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Nothing else in the world…not all the armies…is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.” ― Victor Hugo BIRTHDAYS: 1567 Thomas Campion, English composer, poet and physician. Fain would I wed, and Coordonné 1945 David D. Friedman, American economist, physicist, legal scholar, and libertarian theorist (The Machinery of Freedom) 1948…
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February 13, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.” ― Aristotle BIRTHDAYS: 1682…
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February 11, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education.” ― Frederic Bastiat BIRTHDAYS: 1755 Albert Christoph Dies, German painter, engraver and biographer of Josef Haydn. 1800 William Henry Fox…
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February 10, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to…
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February 9, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?” ― Marcus Tullius Cicero BIRTHDAYS: 1770 Ferdinando Carulli, Italian classical guitar composer.…
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February 8, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.” ― Thomas More BIRTHDAYS: 1577 Robert Burton, British writer and Anglican clergyman (The Anatomy of Melancholy) 1586 Jacob Praetorius, German Baroque organist, composer, and pedagogue. Herr Gott, dich loben wir [Te Deum] 1612 Samuel…
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February 7, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Follow your heart but take your brain with you.” ― Alfred Adler BIRTHDAYS: 1478 Thomas More, Philosopher, Renaissance Humanist and Statesman 1804 John Deere, American blacksmith and manufacturer who founded Deere & Company, one of the largest and leading agricultural and construction-equipment manufacturers in the world. 1812 Charles Dickens, English writer,…
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