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THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” ― H.L. Mencken BIRTHDAYS: 1732 Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, composer and 5th son of Johann Sebastian Bach. Sinfonia…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The Jews are a peculiar people: Things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews. Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people, and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it. Poland and Czechoslovakia did it. Turkey threw out a million Greeks and Algeria a million Frenchmen. Indonesia…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.” ― Elbert Hubbard BIRTHDAYS: 1623 Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer. 1708 Johann Gottlieb Janitsch, German Baroque composer, born in Schweidnitz, Silesia. Sonata in G minor, and Sonata da Camera in D-major “Echo”,…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”People don’t resist change. They resist being changed.” ― Peter Senge BIRTHDAYS: 1511 Bartolommeo Ammanati, Italian sculptor and architect. 1677 Antonio Maria Bononcini, Italian cellist and composer, born in Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio. Godo ma come non sò, and Cantabile, and Sonata nro 3, B-flat major 1717 Johann Stamitz,…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”My work is a game, a very serious game.” ― M. C. Escher BIRTHDAYS: 1691 Giovanni Paolo Pannini, Italian painter and architect, born in Piacenza, Duchy of Parma and Piacenza. 1818 Charles Gounod, French composer. Soldiers Chorus- Faust 1882 Harold Gillies, New Zealand otolaryngologist and father of modern plastic surgery. 1882…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.” ― Ambrose Bierce BIRTHDAYS: 1637 Giovanni Paulo Colonna, Italian composer and organ builder, born in Bologna, Papal States. Lectio tertia 1723 Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher who was a pioneer in…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”French economist/philosopher Frederic Bastiat (1801–50) gave a test for immoral government acts: “See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.” ― Walter E. Williams BIRTHDAYS: 1594 Nicolas Poussin, French painter. 1734 Johann Ernst Altenburg, German…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out,Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out,Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out,Because I was not…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.” ― Richard Feynman BIRTHDAYS: 1539 Jost Amman, Swiss cartoonist, graphic artist and illustrator. 1592 Tobias Michael, German composer, born in Dresden, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire. In Angst und Not, and Fürchte Dich nicht, and…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.” ― Thomas Sowell BIRTHDAYS: 1468 Juan del Encina, Spanish author and composer. Amor con fortuna, and Pues que Jamás Olvidaros, and Qu’es de ti, desconsolado? 1802 Harriet Martineau, British controversial journalist, political economist, abolitionist and life-long…