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November 8, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” ― Marcus Tullius Cicero BIRTHDAYS: 1592 Domenico Mazzocchi, Italian Baroque composer. Piangete, occhi piangete, and Lagrime amare, and Passacaglie dialogo à tre (extrait) 1656 Edmond Halley, English astronomer, mathematician and physicist. 1847 Bram Stoker, Irish author who…
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November 7, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, “This you may not read, this you must not know,” the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty…
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November 6, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The more uncivilised the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. The truly civilised man is always skeptical and tolerant. His culture is based on ‘I am not too sure’.” ― H. L. Mencken BIRTHDAYS: 1607 Sigmund Theophil Staden, early German composer.…
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November 5, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “History is an excellent teacher with few pupils.” ― Will & Ariel Durant BIRTHDAYS: 1666 Attilio Ariosti, Italian composer. Viola d’amore Sonata no.18 in d minor 1764 Pieter Nieuwland, Dutch nautical scientist, chemist, mathematician, and poet. 1885 Will Durant, American historian and philosopher MISCELLANY: FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND…
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November 4, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “I have never understood why it is ‘greed’ to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.” ― Thomas Sowell BIRTHDAYS: 1575 Guido Reni, Italian Baroque painter 1590 Gerard van Honthorst, Dutch painter 1779 Jan Willem Pieneman, Dutch historical painter 1841…
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November 3, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.” ― Thomas Szasz BIRTHDAYS: 1560 Annibale Carracci, Italian painter. 1587 Samuel Scheidt, German baroque composer. Sinfonia chromatica, and Intrada, and Bergamasca 1689 Jan Josef Ignác…
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November 2, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he broke their chains. He was enslaved by his birth, by his kin, by his race. But he broke their chains. He declared to all his brothers that a man…
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November 1, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “But, although the future is unknowable, it is not unimaginable. As Ludwig von Mises put it: ‘The entrepreneurial idea that carries on and brings profit is precisely that idea which did not occur to the majority. It is not correct foresight as such that yields profits, but foresight better than that…
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October 31, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “That’s the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.” ― Larry Niven BIRTHDAYS: 1291 Philippe de Vitry, French composer and poet. Firmissime fidem / Alleluya, 1632 Jan Vermeer, Dutch Baroque Period painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. 1638 Meindert Hobbema,…
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October 30, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.” ― John Adams…
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