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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “It’s not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the ‘right’ to education, the ‘right’ to health care, the ‘right’ to food and housing. That’s not freedom, that’s dependency. Those aren’t rights, those are the rations of slavery — hay and a barn for human cattle.” — Alexis de Tocqueville BIRTHDAYS:…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.” — Milton Friedman BIRTHDAYS: 1500 Benvenuto Cellini, Italian sculptor, goldsmith and author (Perseus). 1757 Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor, born in Possagno, Republic of Venice. 1849 William Merritt Chase, American impressionist painter, and educator…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.” — Friedrich August von Hayek BIRTHDAYS: 1291 Philippe de…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement. If Eudaimonia, or happiness, is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence; and this will be that of…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Freedom is the societal condition that exists when every individual has 100% control of his own property.” — Andrew J. Galambos BIRTHDAYS: 1656 Edmond Halley, English astronomer, mathematician and physicist. Halley encouraged and helped fund the publication of Isaac Newton’s influential Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687). From observations Halley made in…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.” — Erasmus BIRTHDAYS: 1466 Erasmus, Dutch humanist, Christian theologian, and philosopher. 1751 Dmitry Stepanovich Bortniansky, Russian-Ukrainian harpsichordist and composer (Tantum Ergo), born in Glukhov, Russian Empire. Cherubic Hymn No. 7 1754…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.” — Thomas Sowell BIRTHDAYS: 1782 Niccolò Paganini, Italian violin virtuoso, and composer. Cantabile Op. 17…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “There’s an old saying in business: You’re the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” — Peter H. Diamandis BIRTHDAYS: 1483 Hans Buchner, German composer, born in the Free Imperial City of Ravensburg, Holy Roman Empire. Fundamentum: Quem terra 1685 Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer and harpsichordist (La…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.” — Ambrose Bierce BIRTHDAYS: 1576 Thomas Weelkes, English organist and composer of madrigals. Thule, the Period of Cosmography + The Andalusian Merchant 1811 Évariste Galois, French mathematician. 1838 Georges Bizet, French composer of the Romantic era. Carmen: “L’amour est un…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Relativity applies to physics, not to ethics” — Albert Einstein BIRTHDAYS: 1607 John Lievens, Dutch painter, etcher and wood carver, born in Leiden, Dutch Republic. 1632 Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microbiologist and microscopist in the Golden Age of Dutch art, science and technology. A largely self-taught man in science, he is…