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July 30, 2023
Thought of the Day… “I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.” ― Alexis de Tocqueville 1511 Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and art historian. 1818 Emily Brontë, English novelist and…
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July 29, 2023
Thought of the Day… “The argument for liberty is…an argument…against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.” ― Friedrich Hayek 1796 Walter Hunt, American mechanical engineer. 1805 Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian and political writer. 1878 Don Marquis, American journalist, poet and playwright. 1888 Vladimir Zworykin, Russian-American inventor, engineer, and pioneer of television…
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July 28, 2023
Thought of the Day… “True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.” ― Karl R. Popper 1609 Judith Leyster, Dutch painter. 1866 Beatrix Potter, English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist. 1901 Sándor Vándor, Hungarian Jewish composer. Onarckep. 1902 Karl Popper, Philosopher and Academic. 1907 Earl Tupper, American-born Costa…
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July 27, 2023
Thought of the Day… “Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.” ― Carl Jung 1452 Ludovico Sforza, patron of Leonardo da Vinci. 1502 Francesco Corteccia, Italian composer. Guardan’almo pastore 1609…
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July 26, 2023
Thought of the Day… “Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.” ― Eric Hoffer 1782 John Field, Irish pianist and composer. Nocturne in B-flat Major, H. 37, and Nocturne No. 10 in E minor 1791 Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Austrian composer. Rondo e-moll für Flöte und Klavier, and Cantate to Joseph Haydn’s 73rd birthday…
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July 25, 2023
Thought of the Day… “People should not make a virtue out of their sensitivity. They may experience it and preserve it as it was experienced. But they should not adorn themselves with it. Sensitivity will make an addict out of anyone who displays its medals on his chest. He will require more and more objects…
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July 24, 2023
Thought of the Day… “The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” ― Milan Kundera 1783 Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan military and political leader who led what are currently the countries of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Panama and Bolivia to independence from the Spanish Empire. 1802 Alexandre Dumas, French novelist and…
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July 23, 2023
Thought of the Day… “We are not living in a private world of our own. Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.” ― John Galsworthy 1735 Johannes Herbst, German composer. Sie flochten ihm eine Dornenkrone 1777 Philipp Otto Runge, German artist, a draftsman, painter, and color theorist. 1866…
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July 22, 2023
Thought of the Day… “The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” ― Milan Kundera 1597 Virgilio Mazzocchi, Italian composer. Surge Amica mea. 1651 Ferdinand Tobias Richter, Austrian composer. Toccata und Versette im 1° Ton. 1849 Emma Lazarus, American author of poetry, prose, and translations. 1882 Edward Hopper, American realist painter…
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July 21, 2023
Thought of the Day… “Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.” ― Ayaan Hirsi Ali 1865 Robert Kahn, German composer. “Nun stehen die Rosen” MISCELLANY: I’M SO OLD I CAN REMEMBER WHEN THEY TOLD US, ‘MOVE ALONG, NOTHING TO SEE HERE’. US halts funding access to Wuhan lab at heart of COVID-19 origins debate FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great…
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