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THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “History is an excellent teacher with few pupils.” ― Will & Ariel Durant BIRTHDAYS: 1666 Attilio Ariosti, Italian composer. Viola d’amore Sonata no.18 in d minor 1764 Pieter Nieuwland, Dutch nautical scientist, chemist, mathematician, and poet. 1885 Will Durant, American historian and philosopher MISCELLANY: FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “I have never understood why it is ‘greed’ to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.” ― Thomas Sowell BIRTHDAYS: 1575 Guido Reni, Italian Baroque painter 1590 Gerard van Honthorst, Dutch painter 1779 Jan Willem Pieneman, Dutch historical painter 1841…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.” ― Thomas Szasz BIRTHDAYS: 1560 Annibale Carracci, Italian painter. 1587 Samuel Scheidt, German baroque composer. Sinfonia chromatica, and Intrada, and Bergamasca 1689 Jan Josef Ignác…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he broke their chains. He was enslaved by his birth, by his kin, by his race. But he broke their chains. He declared to all his brothers that a man…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “But, although the future is unknowable, it is not unimaginable. As Ludwig von Mises put it: ‘The entrepreneurial idea that carries on and brings profit is precisely that idea which did not occur to the majority. It is not correct foresight as such that yields profits, but foresight better than that…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “That’s the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.” ― Larry Niven BIRTHDAYS: 1291 Philippe de Vitry, French composer and poet. Firmissime fidem / Alleluya, 1632 Jan Vermeer, Dutch Baroque Period painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. 1638 Meindert Hobbema,…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.” ― John Adams…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “We are ready to accept almost any explanation of the present crisis of our civilization except one: that the present state of the world may be the result of genuine error on our own part and that the pursuit of some of our most cherished ideals has apparently produced results utterly…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “It is the mark of a tyrant, indeed an underhand deception, to treat people at large the way that animal trainers customarily treat a wild beast; for their prime concern is to observe what pacifies it or what arouses it, and they provoke or soothe it to suit their own convenience.”…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Another strange notion pervading whole peoples is that the State has money of its own; and nowhere is this absurdity more firmly fixed than in America. The State has no money. It produces nothing. It existence is purely parasitic, maintained by taxation; that is to say, by forced levies on the…