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THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”For every dollar that is spent on the (boondoggle) bridge a dollar will be taken away from taxpayers. If the bridge costs $1,000,000 the taxpayers will lose $1,000, 000. They will have that much taken away from them which they would otherwise have spent on the things they needed most.” ―…

THOUGHT OF 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 OF THE DAY: ”The West is better. Our societies are better. Not superior, just better at producing the kinds of things that human beings seem to want.” ― Konstantin Kisin BIRTHDAYS: 1903 James Franklin Hyde, American chemist and inventor. He has been called the “Father of Silicones” and is credited with the launch of…

THOUGHT OF 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: 1844 Pablo de…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”If some men are entitled by right to the products of the work of others, it means that those others are deprived of rights and condemned to slave labor.” ― Ayn Rand BIRTHDAYS: 1910 Samuel Barber, American composer, pianist, conductor, baritone, and music educator. Adagio 1935 Andrew Viterbi, American telecommunications scientist…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”If you are reading in order to become a better reader, you cannot read just any book or article. You will not improve as a reader if all you read are books that are well within your capacity. You must tackle books that are beyond you, or, as we have said,…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future will reveal its merits.” ― Hannah Arendt BIRTHDAYS: 1574 John Wilbye, English madrigal composer. Draw on, Sweet Night, and Lady, Your Words do Spite…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn’t call it genius.” ― Michelangelo BIRTHDAYS: 1475 Michelangelo, Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. 1616 Malachias Siebenhaar, German composer. Ihr Kinder Israel 1710 Giuseppe Antonio Paganelli, Italian composer. Sonata in A minor (Baroque Cello, Portative Organ)…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”We must learn to suffer whatever we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of dischords as well as different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only some of them, what could he sing? He has got to…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”With very few exceptions, philosophers do not know much science and do not understand it, which is quite natural because science lies beyond the boundaries of typical philosophical subjects such as ethics, aestetics, and gnosiology. But while in the free countries philosophers are quite harmless, in the dictatorial countries they constitute…