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Thought for the Day: “No person is so grand or wise or perfect as to be the master of another person. Teacher, perhaps. Setter of good example, perhaps. Genius, perhaps. But master, no.” ― Karl Hess Birthdays: 1727 Thomas Gainsborough 1805 Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann: Prelude for flute and Organ 1868 Magnus Hirschfeld MISCELLANY: FOCUSED…

Thought for the Day: “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.” ― Robert J. Hanlon Birthdays: 1794 Louis-Leopold Robert 1842 Arthur Sullivan: Overture di Ballo 1867 Frank Brangwyn 1901 Witold Pilecki 1937 Trevor Baylis 1937 Roger Zelazny MISCELLANY: GOOD QUESTION. Is there a difference between Stoicism and Objectivism? FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great…

Thought for the Day: “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” ― C.S. Lewis Birthdays: 1754 Franz Anton Hoffmeister: Etude no 3 for viola 1812 Edward Lear 1820 Florence Nightingale 1828 Gabriel Dante Rossetti 1842 Jules Massenet: Meditation…

Thought for the Day: “Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you’re being had. Let’s be clear: the…

Thought for the Day: “Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;Man got to sit and wonder ‘why, why, why?’Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;Man got to tell himself he understand.” ― Kurt Vonnegut Birthdays: 1697 Jean-Marie Leclair l’aîné (the elder): Chaconne, and Sonata op.2 Nr.1 in e minor – 1.mov – Adagio…

Thought for the Day: “Home is not where you live, but where they understand you.” ― Christian Morgenstern Birthdays: 1265 Dante Alighieri 1596 Abraham van Diepenbeeck 1740 Giovanni Paisiello: Tantum Ergo No. 1 in G Minor 1882 Henry J. Kaiser MISCELLANY: FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for…

Thought for the Day: “I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.” ― Richard Feynman Birthdays: 1673 Johann Valentin Eckelt: Jubilate Deo omnis terra 1737 Edward Gibbon 1745 Carl Philipp Stamitz: Viola Concerto (22:56) 1753 Phillis Wheatley 1899 Friedrich August von Hayek 1899 Fritz van Hall 1919 Mordecai…

Thought for the Day: “Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent upon a maximum of opportunity for accidents to happen.” ― Friederich Hayek Birthdays: 1711 David Hume 1748 Olympe de Gouges 1812 Robert Browning 1833 Johannes Brahms: Opus 118 (24:28)…

Thought for the Day: “Is it not true that each superpower has enough nuclear weapons to kill all members of mankind several times over? Yes. And the same is true of kitchen knives.” ― Petr Beckmann Birthdays: 1581 Frans Francken the Younger 1606 Lorenzo Lippi 1856 Sigmund Freud 1858 Georges Hüe: Fantasy for flute and…

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…