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THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.” ― Frederick Douglass BIRTHDAYS: 1533 Claudio Merulo, Italian organist and composer. Toccata prima del primo tono, and Qui manducat meam carnem, and La Bovia, and Toccata dell’Undecimo detto Quinto Tuono 1692 Giuseppe Tartini,…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Honoring the value of competence and steadfastness requires a generosity of spirit and a curbing of the passion for envy, traits that few people value and fewer still cultivate and acquire. Not until there is more of Smith and less of Hobbes in the human heart, will the majority of people…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”From Hayek’s perspective, a socialist economy could not realize its potential for innovation, since diverse entrepreneurs are not free to compete with one another for market share through new products and methods, diverse financiers are not free to bet on their private judgments in deciding which new ideas to back, and…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”It is impossible for us to make any real advance until we take to heart this great truth, that without freedom of choice, without freedom of action, there are not such things as true moral qualities; there can only be submissive wearing of the cords that others have tied round our…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man’s needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means.” ― Albert Jay Nock BIRTHDAYS:…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” ― Buckminster Fuller BIRTHDAYS: 1649 Joseph François Salomon, French composer. Médée et Jason 1682 Johann Valentin Rathgeber, German organist, Benedictine priest, choirmaster, and composer. Concerto aus der Missa Sanctorum Apostolorum…

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…