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THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The demoralization that the debase­ment of the currency left in its wake played a major role in bring­ing Adolf Hitler into power in 1933.” ― Henry Hazlitt BIRTHDAYS: 1716 Felice Giardini, Italian composer. Concerto op.15 n.1 1801 Joseph Franz Karl Lanner, Austrian composer and violinist. “Abendsterne”, Walzer, op.180 1831 Constantin Meunier,…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The man who is not permitted to own is owned.” ― George Santayana BIRTHDAYS: 1661 Antoine Coypel, French painter and poet. 1681 Anne Danican Philidor, French composer. Sonata pour la flute à bec – Lentement, and Sonate en ré mineur pour flûte alto, par l’ensemble Amarillis 1682 Jean-Joseph Mouret, French composer.…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Liberty is no less a blessing because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.” ― Lucretia Mott BIRTHDAYS: 401 Theodosius II, Roman emperor from 402 to 450. 1583 Hugo Grotius, Dutch humanist, diplomat, lawyer, theologian, jurist, statesman, poet and playwright. 1737 Francois Giroust, French composer.…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”People and institutions that refuse to admit error eventually discredit themselves.” ― Jeffrey Tucker BIRTHDAYS: 1806 Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British civil engineer and mechanical engineer. 1864 Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti, English electrical engineer and inventor. 1919 J. Presper Eckert, Jr., American engineer and co-inventor (1st electronic computer-ENIAC). 1928 Tom Lehrer, American…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.” ― Frederick Douglass BIRTHDAYS: 1533 Claudio Merulo, Italian organist and composer. Toccata prima del primo tono, and Qui manducat meam carnem, and La Bovia, and Toccata dell’Undecimo detto Quinto Tuono 1692 Giuseppe Tartini,…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Honoring the value of competence and steadfastness requires a generosity of spirit and a curbing of the passion for envy, traits that few people value and fewer still cultivate and acquire. Not until there is more of Smith and less of Hobbes in the human heart, will the majority of people…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”From Hayek’s perspective, a socialist economy could not realize its potential for innovation, since diverse entrepreneurs are not free to compete with one another for market share through new products and methods, diverse financiers are not free to bet on their private judgments in deciding which new ideas to back, and…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”It is impossible for us to make any real advance until we take to heart this great truth, that without freedom of choice, without freedom of action, there are not such things as true moral qualities; there can only be submissive wearing of the cords that others have tied round our…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man’s needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means.” ― Albert Jay Nock BIRTHDAYS:…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” ― Buckminster Fuller BIRTHDAYS: 1649 Joseph François Salomon, French composer. Médée et Jason 1682 Johann Valentin Rathgeber, German organist, Benedictine priest, choirmaster, and composer. Concerto aus der Missa Sanctorum Apostolorum…