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THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.” ― Paulo Coelho BIRTHDAYS: 1483 Martin Luther, Monopoly Breaker 1668 François Couperin, French composer and organist. Musette from Concerts Royaux, 3ème Livre, and Concerts Royaux—Septième Concert MISCELLANY: IT’S NOT…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.” ― Carl Sagan BIRTHDAYS: 1664 Johann Speth, German composer and organist. Partite diverse sopra l’aria detta la Todesca, and Toccata prima 1914  Hedy Lamarr, Austro-Hungarian-born American actress and…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” ― Marcus Tullius Cicero BIRTHDAYS: 1592 Domenico Mazzocchi, Italian Baroque composer. Piangete, occhi piangete, and Lagrime amare, and Passacaglie dialogo à tre (extrait) 1656 Edmond Halley, English astronomer, mathematician and physicist. 1847 Bram Stoker, Irish author who…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, “This you may not read, this you must not know,” the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The more uncivilised the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. The truly civilised man is always skeptical and tolerant. His culture is based on ‘I am not too sure’.” ― H. L. Mencken BIRTHDAYS: 1607 Sigmund Theophil Staden, early German composer.…

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…