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December 17, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.” — George Santayana BIRTHDAYS: 1706 Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (Institutions de Physique; translation of Newton’s Principia). 1749 Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer.…
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December 16, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Put up in a placewhere it is easy to seethe cryptic admonishmentT.T.T When you feel how depressinglyslowly you climbit’s well to remember thatThings Take Time.” — Piet Hein BIRTHDAYS: 1669 Arnold Boonen, Dutch portrait painter 1770 Ludwig van Beethoven, Beethoven is widely regarded as the most important musical figure in the…
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December 15, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “There’s nothing more frustrating than seeing cynics sit there and say, ‘Well, nobody can make any more money because Microsoft and Intel own everything.’ Is the software industry mature, or is it embryonic? I would say it’s embryonic. There will be a hundred more Microsofts, not just one.” — Michael J.…
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December 14, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions. With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherland.” —…
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December 13, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.” — Robert Heinlein BIRTHDAYS: 1740 Franz Xaver Schnitzer, German composer. Sonata in Fa Maggiore 1797 Heinrich Heine, German poet and lyricist (Schubert, Liszt) 1836 Franz von Lenbach, German painter. 1838 Alexis de Castillon, French composer. Sonnet Mélancolique, and Piano Quintet in…
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December 12, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment. It is the proper sphere of government to create and enforce a framework of law that prohibits force and fraud. But it must refrain from specific economic interventions. Government’s main economic function…
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December 11, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who…
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December 10, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Every precautionary measure known to political science was taken to prevent the new American State from acquiring the self-destructive habit of every State known to history, that of interfering with man’s pursuit of happiness. The people were to be left alone, to work out their individual destinies with whatever capacities nature…
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December 9, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities, and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One’s right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a…
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December 8, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The great danger to the consumer is the monopoly— whether private or governmental. His most effective protection is free competition at home and free trade throughout the world. The consumer is protected from being exploited by one seller by the existence of another seller from whom he can buy and who…
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