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THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time –when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control, and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely. – Pournelle’s law of Bureaucracy.” ― Jerry Pournelle BIRTHDAYS: 1571 John Ward,…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.” ― Alexander Fleming BIRTHDAYS: 1783 John Heathcoat, English inventor of lace-making machinery 1886 Louis Alan Hazeltine, American inventor (neutrodyne circuit, making radio possible) 1925 M. S. Swaminathan, Indian agronomist, agricultural scientist, geneticist, administrator and humanitarian. Swaminathan was a global leader of the…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.” ― Thomas Sowell BIRTHDAYS: 1619 Barbara Strozzi, Italian composer and singer of the Baroque Period. Che si può fare op. 8, and Lagrime Mie, and Begl’occhi…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The welfare state is generating citizens who are ill informed, illiterate, innumerate, and uncivil.” ― Richard Salsman BIRTHDAYS: 1397 Guillaume Dufay, Franco-Flemish Renaissance composer and theorist, born in Beersel, Burgundian Netherlands. “Donnes l’assault a la fortresse”, and La belle se siet, and Nuper rosarum flores, and Vergine bella, and Kyrie 1607…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “There’s only one way to improve society. Present it with a single improved unit: yourself.” ― Albert Jay Nock BIRTHDAYS: 1502 Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish artist, architect and designer of tapestries and stained glass (court painter to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V) 1755 Nicolas-Jacque Conte, French painter and inventor (modern…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The recognition of the fact that Congress has no resources of its own forces us to acknowledge that the only way Congress can give one American one dollar is to first, through intimidation, threats, and coercion, confiscate that dollar from some other American. If a private citizen did the same thing…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Often we only realize we have a problem once we see a solution to it.” ― Christian Busch BIRTHDAYS: 1627 Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten, Dutch Golden Age painter, who was also a poet and author on art theory. 1754 Pierre Charles L’Enfant, French-American artist, professor, and military engineer who in 1791…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge,…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.” ― Kurt Vonnegut BIRTHDAYS: 1595 Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor and architect. 1804 John Ericsson, Swedish-American engineer and inventor. 1828 François-Auguste Gevaert, Belgian composer 1830 František Zdeněk Skuherský, Czech composer. Nocturne 1912 Milton Friedman, American…