Tag: history
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October 27, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Because, as we all know, it’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking. And it’s also easier to do little things we know we can do than to start on big things that we’re not so sure…
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October 23, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the…
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October 22, 2024
“Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most.” — Aesop BIRTHDAYS: 1698 Nicola Logroscino, Italian composer, born in Bitonto, Bari, Kingdom of Naples. ALLEGRO (III tempo) dal Concerto a cinque per Traversiere ed archi in sol magg. 1737 Vincenzo Manfredini, Italian harpsichordist, composer, and music theorist, born in…
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October 21, 2024
“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: 1581 Domenichino [Domenico Zampieri], Italian Baroque painter. 1751 David Moritz Michael, Moravian conductor and composer, (Die Wasserfahrt -The Water Journey), born in Kühnhausen, Prussia.…
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October 20, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.” — Friedrich von Hayek BIRTHDAYS: 1435 Andrea Della Robbia,…
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October 18, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.” — H.L. Mencken BIRTHDAYS: 1634 Luca Giordano, Italian painter and printmaker, born in Naples, Kingdom of Naples, Spanish Empire. 1697 Giovanni Canaletto, Italian painter (Regatta on the Grand Canal) and…
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