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THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.” ― Carl Gustav Jung BIRTHDAYS: 1840 Chief Joseph, leader of the wal-lam-wat-kain (Wallowa) band of Nez Perce, a Native American tribe of the interior Pacific Northwest region of the United States. 1847 Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born Canadian-American inventor, scientist and…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The individual, under socialism, instead of developing, becomes more and more like a bossed animal.” ― R.C. Hoiles BIRTHDAYS: 1824 Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer. The Moldau (14:40) 1859 Sholem Aleichem, Yiddish author and playwright (Fiddler on the Roof, Tevye the Dairyman) 1900 Kurt Weill, German-American composer and collaborator of Bertolt Brecht…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.” ― Lysander Spooner BIRTHDAYS: 1692 John Byrom, English poet and the inventor of shorthand. 1792 Gioachino Rossini, Italian composer. La Gazza Ladra, and The Barber of Seville – Overture, and William Tell Overture 1840 John Philip Holland, Father…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”So this is where all the vapid talk about the ‘soul’ of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of reason and science have been discredited, the world will not pass into the hands of credulous herbivores who keep crystals by their sides and swoon over the poems of…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Representative government cannot express the will of the mass of the people, because there is no mass of the people; The People is a fiction, like The State. You cannot get a Will of the Mass, even among a dozen persons who all want to go on a picnic. The only…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”It is the common error of Socialists to overlook the natural indolence of mankind; their tendency to be passive, to be the slaves of habit, to persist indefinitely in a course once chosen. Let them once attain any state of existence which they consider tolerable, and the danger to be apprehended…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was… The struggle of…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”If other people do not understand our behavior—so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us. If this is being “asocial” or “irrational” in their eyes, so be it. Mostly they resent our freedom and our courage to be ourselves. We…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Thieves of private property pass their lives in chains; thieves of public property in riches and luxury.” ― Cato BIRTHDAYS: 1633 Samuel Pepys, the creator of one of the most important primary sources of the English Restoration period. 1649 John Blow, English organist, composer. Ground, and Salvator mundi, and Minuet, and…