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September 8, 2023
“A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.” ― Alan Dershowitz 1672 Nicolas de Grigny, French organist and composer. Tierce en Taille 1841 Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer. Carnival Overture, and Song to the Moon from Rusalka MISCELLANY: WHICH IS BETTER: STRONG EVIDENCE OR NO EVIDENCE AT ALL? Lead…
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September 7, 2023
“Any alleged ‘right’ of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another, is not and cannot be a right.” ― Ayn Rand 1705 Matthäus Günther, German painter 1726 François-André Danican Philidor, French composer and chess champion. Sinfonia 1 in g minor from l’Art de la Modulation 1740 Johan Tobias Sergel, Swedish sculptor…
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September 6, 2023
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” ― H.L. Mencken 1620 Isabella Leonarda, Italian religious composer. Sonata decima, and Queste ch’a Voi consagro 1633 Sebastian Knupfer, German composer, conductor…
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September 5, 2023
“You’re not going to push ahead when it’s someone else’s mission. It needs to be yours.” ― Peter H. Diamandis 1600 Loreto Vittori, Italian composer and mezzo-soprano singer. Lungi dal mio bel Sole 1694 František Václav Míča, Czech conductor and composer. Bellezza e Decoro, Nel giorno natalizio – 1, and Bellezza e Decoro, Nel giorno…
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September 4, 2023
“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.” ― Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress 1622 Jacob Hintze, German composer. Christ lag in Todesbanden 1824 Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer and organist. ‘Locus…
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September 3, 2023
“Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” ― Ronald Reagan 1568 Adriano Banchieri, Italian organist, composer, poet, and monk. Dialogo, and Fantasia Prima from Fantasie overo canzoni alla Francese a…
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September 2, 2023
“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby…
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September 1, 2023
“The world is a sphere. There is no East or West.” ― Ai Weiwei 1529 Taddeo Zuccari, Italian Mannerist painter 1653 Johann Pachelbel, German composer, organist, and teacher. Canon in D Major 1803 Jacobus Abels, Dutch painter 1875 Edgar Rice Burroughs, American writer, best known for his prolific output in the adventure, science fiction, and…
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August 31, 2023
“We need to take a collective deep breath and understand what climate change is and isn’t. It is not like a huge asteroid hurtling toward earth, where we need to stop everything else and mobilize the entire global economy to ward off the end of the world. It is instead a long-term chronic condition like…
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August 30, 2023
“Breakthroughs in information and communications technology are leading to forms of dematerialization unimaginable just a decade ago. Consider smartphones. They require more energy to manufacture and operate than older cell phones. But by obviating the need for separate, physical newspapers, books, magazines, cameras, watches, alarm clocks, GPS systems, maps, letters, calendars, address books, and stereos,…
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