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May 5, 2023
Thought for the Day: “Ideas have consequences that can transform society.― Ricardo Benjamín Salinas Pliego Birthdays: 1680 Giuseppe Porsile: Arianna infelice (extrait), and Sarabande in g-minor, and Le sofferte amare pene, 1903 James Beard 1921 Arthur Leonard Schawlow MISCELLANY: FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science…
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May 4, 2023
Thought for the Day: “One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.” ― Milton Friedman Birthdays: 1744 Marianne Martinez: Sonata in E Major: I.Allegro II.Andante III.Presto, and Sinfonia in C-Dur 1826 Frederick Edwin Church 1940 Robin Cook MISCELLANY: FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration SCIENCE, ETHICS,…
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May 3, 2023
Thought for the Day: “The day before something is truly a breakthrough, it’s a crazy idea.” Trying out crazy ideas means bucking expert opinion and taking big risks. It means not being afraid to fail. Because you will fail. The road to bold is paved with failure, and this means having a strategy in place…
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May 2, 2023
Thought for the Day: “If you will it, it is no dream.” ― Theodor Herzl Birthdays: 1660 Alessandro Scarlatti: Passio Secundum Johannem 1797 Abraham Pineo Gesner 1844 Elijah McCoy 1860 Theodor Herzl 1890 E. E. Smith 1947 James Dyson MISCELLANY: FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science…
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May 1, 2023
Thought for the Day: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” ― Michael Malice Birthdays: 1582 Marco da Gagliano: Per la gloriosissima Vergine, and Valli Profonde MISCELLANY: FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science…
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April 30, 2023
Thought for the Day: “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…
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April 29, 2023
Thought for the Day: “The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.” ― Herbert Spencer Birthdays: 1636 Esaias Reusner: Allemanda a minor, Suite in F major 1854 Henri Poincaré MISCELLANY: FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for…
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April 28, 2023
Thought for the Day: “Words never fail. We hear them, we read them; they enter into the mind and become part of us for as long as we shall live. Who speaks reason to his fellowmen bestows it upon them. Who mouths inanity disorders thought for all who listen. There must be some minimum allowable…
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April 27, 2023
Thought for the Day: “Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.” ― Marcus Aurelius Birthdays: 1623 Johann Adam Reincken: Toccata in G, and Fugue in G minor 1759 Mary Wollstonecraft 1791 Samuel Morse 1820 Herbert Spencer MISCELLANY: FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration SCIENCE,…
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April 26, 2023
Thought for the Day: “Lack of power is a great excuse for failure, but sufficient power is never a necessary condition of leadership. There is never sufficient power. In fact, it is success in the absence of sufficient power that defines leadership.” ― Tom DeMarco Birthdays: 161 Marcus Aurelius 1538 Gian Paolo Lomazzo 1785 John…
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