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THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’” ― Isaac Asimov BIRTHDAYS: 106 BC Cicero, Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, writer and Academic skeptic, who tried…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The bad economist sees only what immediately strikes the eye; the good economist also looks beyond. The bad economist sees only the direct consequences of a proposed course; the good economist looks also at the longer and indirect consequences. The bad economist sees only what the effect of a given policy…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Although we had been warned by some of the greatest political thinkers of the nineteenth century, by Tocqueville and Lord Acton, that socialism means slavery, we have steadily moved in the direction of socialism.” ― Friedrich Hayek BIRTHDAYS: 1449 Lorenzo de’ Medici, Italian statesman and banker who served as the de…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Why doesn’t anyone believe me anymore?” ― The boy who cried “Wolf!” BIRTHDAYS: 1573 Giulio Cesare Monteverdi, Italian organist and composer. In cythara et voce 1869 Henri Matisse, French visual artist. MISCELLANY: FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration Yes, the following is on the website for the Bulgarian Association for Pathology…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: If “If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,                  Or being hated,…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “You say, “There are men who have no money,” and you apply the law. But the law is not a self-supplied fountain, whence every stream may obtain supplies independtly of society. Nothing can enter the public treasury, in favor of one citizen or one class, but what other citizens and other…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.” ― Mortimer J. Adler BIRTHDAYS: 1651 Johann Krieger, German organist and composer. Chaconne in g-Moll 1865 Félix Vallotton, Swiss-French painter and writer…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “When ships to sail the void between the stars have been built, there will step forth men to sail these ships.”   ― Johannes Kepler BIRTHDAYS: 1571 Johannes Kepler, German astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, natural philosopher and writer on music. 1773 George Cayley, English inventor who founded science of aerodynamics 1802 Thomas Fearnley, Norwegian…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.”   ― Carl Gustav Jung BIRTHDAYS: 1633 Charles Emmanuel Biset, Flemish painter 1716 Thomas Gray, English poet. 1791 Charles Babbage, English polymath. A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage originated the concept of a digital programmable computer. 1808 Albert Grisar,…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “If I have seen further then others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.”   ― Isaac Newton BIRTHDAYS: 1583 Orlando Gibbons, English composer. Pavane, and Drop, Drop, Slow Tears, and The Silver Swan, and Fancy for six viols 1628 Noel Coypel, French painter 1642 Isaac Newton, English…