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December 18, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “There is, however, hope for any person who wants to remain an individual. He can assert himself and refuse to conform. He’ll be on his own, that’s true, but while he will not have the security enjoyed by those who do conform, there will be no limits to what he may…
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December 17, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Problems worthy of attackprove their worth by fighting back.” ― Piet Hein, Grooks 1 BIRTHDAYS: 1706 Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (Institutions de Physique; translation of Newton’s Principia) 1749 Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer. “Vè che matta, maledetta!”, and Sonata II – Valentino Bontempi 1797 Joseph Henry, American scientist and…
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December 16, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee” ― Ben Jonson BIRTHDAYS: 1770 Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer and pianist. “Widely regarded as the greatest composer who ever lived, Ludwig van Beethoven dominates a period of musical history as no one else before or since.” 9th Symphony (1:21)…
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December 15, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The mind that is open for questions is open for dissent. In the totalitarian regime the doubting, inquisitive, and imaginative mind has to be suppressed. The totalitarian slave is only allowed to memorize, to salivate when the bell rings.” ― Joost A.M. Meerloo BIRTHDAYS: 1567 Christoph Demantius, German composer. Weissagung des…
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December 14, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “I don’t like ass kissers, flag wavers or team players. I like people who buck the system. Individualists. I often warn people: “Somewhere along the way, someone is going to tell you, ‘There is no “I” in team.’ What you should tell them is, ‘Maybe not. But there is an “I”…
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December 13, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Most of the major ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people who ignored the principle of individual freedom, except as applied to themselves, and who were obsessed with fanatical zeal to improve the lot of mankind-in-the-mass through some pet formula of their own. The harm done by ordinary…
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December 12, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage . . . . Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elite, causing an impression of a loss…
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December 11, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty. And can never be restrained but by despotic governments.” ― George Mason BIRTHDAYS: 1566 Manuel Cardoso, Portuguese composer. Requiem a 4 de Manuel Cardoso, and Lamentatio 1725 George Mason, Founding Father, and delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention…
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December 10, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Thus, the central objection raised against the human settlement and terraforming of Mars: Such projects may be technologically feasible, but there is no possible way that they can be paid for. On the surface, the arguments given supporting this position appear cogent, for Mars is a distant place, difficult to access,…
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December 9, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.” ― Grace Murray Hopper BIRTHDAYS: 1508 Gemma Frisius, Dutch physician, mathematician, cartographer, philosopher, and instrument maker 1608 John Milton, Poet and political writer. 1837 Émile Waldteufel, French pianist and composer. Les Patineurs The Skaters Op. 183 1886 Clarence Birdseye,…
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