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"Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket, a thumb to suck, a skirt to hold. What does the scientist have to offer in exchange? Uncertainty! Insecurity!”

― Isaac Asimov

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"There ain't no such thing as a free lunch."

― Robert A. Heinlein

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František Xaver Brixi (1732 – 1771): Pastores

Christian Daniel Rauch (1777 – 1857)

Slava Raškaj (1877 –...

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"A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts."

― William Strunk, Jr.

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"Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities."

― Voltaire

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It's okay - they're non-essential: Californians doing as their elected leaders do — ignoring lockdown...

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"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;...

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"Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result."

― Robert Ingersoll

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Jacob Bernoulli (1655 – 1705)

Giuseppe...

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"I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood."

― Clarence Darrow

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"To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult."

― Plutarch

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"Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty."

― Ronald Reagan

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Pavel KÅ™ížkovský (1820 - 1885):  Odvedeného prosba, and Výprask

Giuseppe...

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"The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it."

― Ayn Rand

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Gasparo Visconti (1683 - 1713):  Sonata in sol minore op. I n. 3, and Concerto per violino

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"Only in some very special cases is comprehension the point of reading--in things like recipes and "reading material." The point of reading is understanding, and comprehension is to understanding as getting wet is to swimming. You must do the one before you...

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"The practical reason for freedom is that freedom seems to be the only condition under which any kind of substantial moral fiber can be developed. We have tried law, compulsion and authoritarianism of various kinds, and the result is nothing to be proud...

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“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of...

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"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."

― John Stuart Mill

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“The market system is the basis of our civilization. Its only alternative is the Führer principle.”

― Ludwig von Mises

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My head is in the clouds - clouds of stars, that is. Space Missions to Watch in 2021

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"I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear...

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"Conservatism, though a necessary element in any stable society, is not a social program; in its paternalistic, nationalistic and power adoring tendencies it is often closer to socialism than true liberalism; and with its traditionalistic, anti-intellectual, and...

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"The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection."

― Thomas Paine

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Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger (c. 1575 – 1628):  Madrigal...

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"If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman... because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.

― Montesquieu

Chec...

Thought for The Day...

“If a tax on malt would raise the price of beer, a tax on bread must raise the price of bread.”

― David Ricardo

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Johann Hermann Schein (1586 – 1630):  Suite no. 8 from Banchetto Musicale

Francesco Bartolomeo Conti (1682 – 1732): Languet anima mea 

Joseph-Hector Fiocco (1703 – 1741) L'Inquiette, and Lamentation

Joy Adamson (1910 – 1980)