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October 8, 2023
“A wounded tiger is a dangerous beast.” ― Arthur Golden BIRTHDAYS: 1551 Giulio Caccini, Italian composer, violist, tenor, and teacher. Tu ch’ai le penne amore, and Amor ch’attendi 1868 Max Slevogt, German painter 1869 J. Frank Duryea, American inventor (Duryea Motor Wagon Company, first auto built in the US) 1893 Orovida Camille Pissarro, British painter…
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October 7, 2023
“The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.” ― Aldous Huxley BIRTHDAYS: 1698 Henri Madin, French composer. Te Deum For The Victories of Louis XV 1798 Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, French musical instrument inventor, luthier and violin maker (Octobass) 1821 William Still, African-American abolitionist, businessman and…
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October 6, 2023
“You can’t tax your way to a balanced budget without tanking the job creation that actually generates tax receipts.” ― Matt Kibbe BIRTHDAYS: 1866 Reginald Fessenden, Canadian-American inventor and radio pioneer. 1882 Karol Szymanowski, Polish pianist and composer. Prélude Op. 1 Nr. 1 1914 Thor Heyerdahl, Ethnographer, Archaeologist and Explorer. 1950 David Brin, American sci-fi…
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October 5, 2023
“Decentralized means learning cannot easily be curtailed by autocratic governments and is considerably more immune to socioeconomic upheaval.” ― Peter H. Diamandis BIRTHDAYS: 1590 Johann Schop, German composer and violinist. Nasce la pena mia, and Lachrimae Pavan from Uitnemend Kabinet, Amsterdam, 1649. 1684 Johann Jacob de Neufville, German composer. Ciacona 1712 Francesco Guardi, Italian painter…
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October 4, 2023
“Seizing the results of someone’s labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities. If people force you to do certain work, or unrewarded work, for a certain period of time, they decide what you are to do and what purposes your work is to serve apart from…
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October 3, 2023
“What makes a freethinker is not his beliefs but the way in which he holds them. If he holds them because his elders told him they were true when he was young, or if he holds them because if he did not he would be unhappy, his thought is not free; but if he holds…
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October 2, 2023
“Of all the virtues we can learn no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the quality of life than the ability to transform adversity into an enjoyable challenge.” ― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi BIRTHDAYS: 1817 Gunnar Wennerberg, Swedish poet and composer. Gör portarna höga 1890 Groucho Marx, Third-born of the…
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October 1, 2023
“The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky BIRTHDAYS: 1865 Paul Dukas, French composer, critic, scholar and teacher. l’Apprenti sorcier 1881 William Boeing, American aviation pioneer who founded The Boeing Company MISCELLANY: A DIFFERENT TAKE. Why Did People Comply? FOCUSED PROTECTION: The…
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September 30, 2023
“Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.” ― Elie Wiesel BIRTHDAYS: 1207 Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian mystic and poet 1622 Johann Sebastiani, German composer. O Welt, ich muss dich lassen 1685 Gunther Jacob, Bohemian composer and choirmaster. Domine Deus, and Missa Adventualis 1882 Hans…
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September 29, 2023
“There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you’ve made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you’ve made a discovery.” ― Enrico Fermi BIRTHDAYS: 1547 Miguel de Cervantes, Early Modern Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language. 1640 Antoine Coyzevox, French…
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