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THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.” — Hannah Arendt BIRTHDAYS: 1644 William Penn, English writer, religious thinker, and influential Quaker who founded the Province of Pennsylvania during the British colonial era. 1906 Hannah Arendt, German-American historian and philosopher.…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The road to wisdom?— Well, it’s plainand simple to express:Errand errand err againbut lessand lessand less.” — Piet Hein BIRTHDAYS: 1474 Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian painter. 1652 Johann Heinrich Kittel, German composer, born in Dresden, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire. Präludium G-Dur, and Praeludio pro Organo pleno a moll 1713 Allan…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even specially, the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities.” — Allan Bloom BIRTHDAYS: 1686…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they ”speak with…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” — Aristotle BIRTHDAYS: 1684 Jean-Antoine Watteau, French Rococo painter. 1700 Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor. 1713 Johann Ludwig Krebs, German organist and composer. Präludium und Fuge, d moll (KrebsWV 405) 1731 Henry Cavendish, England,…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life…The government does not, indeed, waylay a man in a lonely place, spring upon him from the road side and, holding a pistol to his head, proceed to rifle his pockets. But the robbery…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Since the State necessarily lives by the compulsory confiscation of private capital, and since its expansion necessarily involves ever-greater incursions on private individuals and private enterprise, we must assert that the state is profoundly and inherently anti-capitalist.” — Murray Rothbard BIRTHDAYS: 1798 Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, French musical instrument inventor, luthier and violin…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” — Benjamin Franklin BIRTHDAYS: 1618 Miguel Gómez Camargo, Spanish baroque composer. Un portugués y un gallego 1846 George Westinghouse, prolific American inventor, engineer, and entrepreneurial industrialist based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania who is best known for…