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THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Follow your heart but take your brain with you.” ― Alfred Adler BIRTHDAYS: 742 Charlemagne, Holy Roman Emperor. 1618 Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist (light defraction). 1628 Constantin Christian Dedekind, German composer and poet. Die schöne Karitahne 1632 Georg Caspar Weckler, German organist and composer. „Fuge” 1805 Hans Christian…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Voting, the be all and end all of modern democratic politicians, has become a farce, if indeed it was ever anything else. By voting, the people decide only which of the oligarchs preselected for them as viable candidates will wield the whip used to flog them and will command the legion…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Let’s be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”To make a contented slave, you must make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate his power of reason. He must be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery. The man that takes his earnings, must be able…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.” ― Harry Browne BIRTHDAYS: 1853 Elihu Thomson, English-born American engineer who co-founded General Electric Company and inventor with 696 patents. 1873 Tullio Levi-Civita, Italian mathematician. 1902 William Walton, British composer. Elegy from Richard III, and Crown Imperial 1918 Sam Walton, American business magnate…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanction of political authority is not necessary for its existence. Certain commodities came to be money quite naturally, as the result of economic relationships that were independent of the power of the…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The more laws and restrictions there are,The poorer people become. The more rules and regulations,The more thieves and robbers.” ― Lao Tzu BIRTHDAYS: 1710 Joseph Abaco, Italian composer. Capriccio No. 1 1845 Wilhelm Röntgen, German mechanical engineer and physicist, who, on 8 November 1895, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”If the right to vote were expanded to seven year olds … its policies would most definitely reflect the ‘legitimate concerns’ of children to have ‘adequate’ and ‘equal’ access to ‘free’ french fries, lemonade and videos.” ― Hans-Hermann Hoppe BIRTHDAYS: 1773 Nathaniel Bowditch, American mathematician, astronomer and author. 1794 Julius Schnorr…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”It was Thomas Edison who brought us electricity, not the Sierra Club. It was the Wright brothers who got us off the ground, not the Federal Aviation Administration. It was Henry Ford who ended the isolation of millions of Americans by making the automobile affordable, not Ralph Nader. Those who have…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”My take on socialism is this: Socialism only seems to work when you don’t fully implement it, when you keep enough capitalism around to pay socialism’s bills, at least for a time. It’s the difference between milking the cow and killing it. Socialism has no theory of wealth creation; it’s just…