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October 28, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “It is the mark of a tyrant, indeed an underhand deception, to treat people at large the way that animal trainers customarily treat a wild beast; for their prime concern is to observe what pacifies it or what arouses it, and they provoke or soothe it to suit their own convenience.”…
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October 27, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Another strange notion pervading whole peoples is that the State has money of its own; and nowhere is this absurdity more firmly fixed than in America. The State has no money. It produces nothing. It existence is purely parasitic, maintained by taxation; that is to say, by forced levies on the…
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October 26, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.” ― Voltaire BIRTHDAYS: 1645 Aert de Gelder, Dutch painter. 1685 Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer and harpsichordist. 5 harpsichord sonatas (20:53), and Sonata K.475 MISCELLANY: FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science…
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October 25, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong…
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October 24, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.” ― Frederick Douglass BIRTHDAYS: 1556 Giovanni Battista Caccini, Italian sculptor 1607 John Lievens, Dutch painter, etcher and wood carver 1739 Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, German princess and composer. Divertimento 1811 Ferdinand Hiller, German pianist, composer and conductor. Cha.4, No.16 Des-dur,Op.15 MISCELLANY: FOCUSED…
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October 23, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.” ― Elie Wiesel BIRTHDAYS: 1801 (Gustav) Albert Lortzing, German Spieloper composer and actor. http://Welt, du kannst mir nicht gefallen 1942 Michael Crichton, American writer…
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October 22, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.” ― Isaiah Berlin BIRTHDAYS: 1811 Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor,…
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October 21, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets…
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October 20, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even specially, the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities.” ― Allan Bloom BIRTHDAYS: 1632…
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October 19, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The more the state “plans” the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.” ― Friedrich A. Hayek BIRTHDAYS: 1931 John le Carré, English novelist MISCELLANY: FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth RELATED. Nuremberg Code Yes, the following is the website…
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