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THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.” ― Daniel Hannan BIRTHDAYS: 1658 Giuseppe Torelli, Italian composer. Concerto in D Major, and Violin Concerto Op.8 No.6, and Violin Concerto Op.8, No.8 1682 Willem Ignatius Kerricx, Flemish architect, sculptor and painter. MISCELLANY: FURTHER PROOF…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Never let a bad day go to waste.” ― Scott Adams BIRTHDAYS: 1555 Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter. 1672 Johann Philipp Käfer, German composer. Suite ‘Musicalische Battaille’ 1806 Peter van Schendel, Dutch-Belgian painter. 1816 Charlotte Brontë, English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.” ― Marcus Aurelius BIRTHDAYS: 1745 Philippe Pinel, French physician, precursor of psychiatry and incidentally a zoologist. He was instrumental in the development of a…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.” But “there is also an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents…. The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and the…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? – Who will watch the watchers?” ― Juvenal BIRTHDAYS: 1605 Giacomo Carissimi, Italian organist, choral director, composer (Jephta), and priest. Dixit Dominus, and Rimante in pace 1819 Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer. Cavalleria Leggera, Ouverture. 1852 George Clausen, English painter. 1907 Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian-American classical and film…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”If you require force to promote your ideal, there is something wrong with your ideal.” ― JSB Morse BIRTHDAYS: 1539 Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter. 1568 Christophe Thomas Walliser, French composer. Cum natus esset Jesu 1587 Ivan Lukačić, Croatian composer. Cantabo Domino, Sacrae Cantiones 1683 Johann David Heinichen, German Baroque composer and…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”It constantly amazes me that defenders of the free market are expected to offer certainty and perfection while government has only to make promises and express good intentions. Many times, for instance, I’ve heard people say, “A free market in education is a bad idea because some child somewhere might fall…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Those who claim to be hurt by words must be led to expect nothing as compensation. Otherwise, once they learn they can get something by claiming to be hurt, they will go into the business of being offended.” ― Jonathan Rauch BIRTHDAYS: 1452 Leonardo da Vinci, Italian polymath of the High…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not desire.” ― Lysander Spooner BIRTHDAYS: 1629 Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor who is regarded as a key figure in the Scientific Revolution. 1638 Diogo Dias Melgás, Portuguese composer of late-Renaissance…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The idea that the government has services or goods that they can pass on is a complete farce. Governments have nothing. They can’t create anything, they never have. All they can do is steal from one group and give it to another at the destruction of the principles of freedom, and…