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“You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.” ― Carl Gustav Jung Birthdays: 1593 Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian Baroque painter. 1637 Johann Georg Ebeling, German composer. All My Heart This Night Rejoices 1757 Richard Wainwright, English composer. Quartet No.4 (II) 1821 Jozef Lies, Flemish painter. 1838  Ferdinand von Zeppelin, inventor of the Zeppelin…

“Belief gets in the way of learning.” ― Robert A. Heinlein Birthdays: 1690 Johann Tobias Krebs, German organist and composer. Trio c moll 1860 Gustav Mahler, Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer. Symphony No.4, 4th movement Das Himmlische Leben 1880 Otto Frederick Rohwedder, inventer of the bread-slicing machine. 1907 Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction author, aeronautical engineer,…

“Thoughts that have important consequences are always simple. All my thinking could be summed up with these words: “Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same.” It’s as simple as that.” ― Leo Tolstoy Birthdays: 1632 Albert Schop, German composer. Ach dass diel Hulfe 1638 Gerrit Berckheyde,…

“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: 1654 Antonio Maria Pacchioni,…

“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.” ― Thomas Paine Birthdays: 1669 Alexander von Papenhoven, Flemish sculptor. 1694 Louis-Claude Daquin, French organist and composer.…

“Words… They’re innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they’re no good any more… I don’t think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get…

“The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.” ― Kurt Vonnegut Birthdays: 1581 Johann Staden, German baroque composer who established the Nuremberg School. Toccata 1636 Daniel Speer, German composer and writer of the Baroque. Aria, Gavotte, Courante. Pièces jouées au clavicorde, and Sonata n°1 para tres Trombones…

“The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky Birthdays: 1646 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German polymath. 1586 Claudio Saracini, Italian composer, lutenist, and singer of the early Baroque era. le Seste musiche 1723 Pedro Rodríguez de Campomanes y Pérez, 1st Count of Campomanes,…

“Our freedom of choice in a competitive society rests on the fact that, if one person refuses to satisfy our wishes, we can turn to another. But if we face a monopolist we are at his absolute mercy. And an authority directing the whole economic system of the country would be the most powerful monopolist…

“We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content.” ― Émile Zola Birthdays: 1805 Hiram Powers, American neoclassical sculptor. 1911 Bernard Herrmann, American film score composer. Vertigo (theme), and Prelude (Mysterious Island), and Fahrenheit 451: first scene. MISCELLANY:…