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May 1, 2021

May 1, 2021

 

 

Welcome to my experimental blog. Here you may find links to interesting or useful articles, and meet individuals whom I think have helped decrease misery, or added beauty and happiness in this world.

 

 

Thought for The Day...

 

"The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best."

 

— Thomas Sowell

 

 

 

Check out the Great Barrington Declaration.

 

 

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Marco da Gagliano (1582 – 1643):  Intorno a La Dafne

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May 2, 2021

May 2, 2021

 

 

Welcome to my experimental blog. Here you may find links to interesting or useful articles, and meet individuals whom I think have helped decrease misery, or added beauty and happiness in this world.

 

 

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"Grown-ups shouldn’t finish books they’re not enjoying. When you’re no longer a child, and you no longer live at home, you don’t have to finish everything on your plate. One reward of leaving school is that you don’t have to finish books you don’t like."

 

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May 3, 2021

May 3, 2021

 

Welcome to my experimental blog. Here you may find links to interesting or useful articles, and meet individuals whom I think have helped decrease misery, or added beauty and happiness in this world.

 

Thought for The Day...

 

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."

 

— P. J. O'Rourke

 

 

 

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Johann Valentin Meder (1649 – 1719):  Singet, lobsinget mit Hertzen und...

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May 4, 2021

May 4, 2021

 

 

Welcome to my experimental blog. Here you may find links to interesting or useful articles, and meet individuals whom I think have helped decrease misery, or added beauty and happiness in this world.

 

Thought for The Day...

 

“When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.”

 

— P. J. O'Rourke

 

 

 

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Bartolomeo Cristofori di Francesco (1655 –...

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May 5, 2021

May 5, 2021

 

 

Welcome to my experimental blog. Here you may find links to interesting or useful articles, and meet individuals whom I think have helped decrease misery, or added beauty and happiness in this world.

 

Thought for The Day...

 

“People organize their brains with conversation. If they don't have anyone to tell their story to, they lose their minds. Like hoarders, they cannot unclutter themselves.”

 

— Jordan B. Peterson

 

 

 

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May 6, 2021

May 6, 2021

 

 

Welcome to my experimental blog. Here you may find links to interesting or useful articles, and meet individuals whom I think have helped decrease misery, or added beauty and happiness in this world.

 

Thought for The Day...

  

"Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions."

 

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

 

 

 

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May 7, 2021

May 7, 2021

 

 

Welcome to my experimental blog. Check out the links to interesting or useful articles. Meet individuals who have helped alleviate human suffering and misery. Discover people who have helped make the world a more beautiful and happier place. Have a great day!

 

Thought for The Day...

 

"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me." 

 

— Ayn Rand

 

 

 

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Carl Heinrich Graun (1704 –...

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May 8, 2021

May 8, 2021

 

Welcome to my experimental blog. Check out the links to interesting or useful articles. Meet individuals who have helped alleviate human suffering and misery. Discover people who have helped make the world a more beautiful and happier place. Have a great day!

 

Thought for The Day...

 

“There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.“

 

— Michel de Montaigne

 

 

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Mordechai Anielewicz (1919 –...

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May 9, 2021

May 9, 2021

 

 

 

Welcome to my experimental blog. Check out the links to interesting or useful articles. Meet individuals who have helped alleviate human suffering and misery. Discover people who have helped make the world a more beautiful and happier place. Have a great day!

 

Thought for The Day...

 

"If you want peace, prepare for war." (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum)

 

— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

 

 

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Giovanni...

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May 10, 2021

May 10, 2021

 

 

Welcome to my experimental blog. Check out the links to interesting or useful articles. Meet individuals who have helped alleviate human suffering and misery. Discover people who have helped make the world a more beautiful and happier place. Have a great day!

 

Thought for The Day...

 

“A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.”

 

— Miguel de Unamuno

 

 

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Jean-Marie...

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May 11, 2021

May 11, 2021

 

 

Welcome to my experimental blog. Check out the links to interesting or useful articles. Meet individuals who have helped alleviate human suffering and misery. Discover people who have helped make the world a more beautiful and happier place. Have a great day!

 

Thought for The Day...

 

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."

 

— Winston Churchill

 

 

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Johann...

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May 12, 2021

May 12, 2021

 

 

Welcome to my experimental blog. Check out the links to interesting or useful articles. Meet individuals who have helped alleviate human suffering and misery. Discover people who have helped make the world a more beautiful and happier place. Have a great day!

 

Thought for The Day...

 

"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud."


— Coco Chanel

 

 

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Giovanni Battista Viotti (1755 – 1824):  Concerto No. 22 in A minor for Violin and Piano, G. 97,...

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May 13, 2021

May 13, 2021

 

 

Welcome to my experimental blog. Check out the links to interesting or useful articles. Meet individuals who have helped alleviate human suffering and misery. Discover people who have helped make the world a more beautiful and happier place. Have a great day!

 

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"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the...

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May 14, 2021

May 14, 2021

 

 

Welcome to my experimental blog. Check out the links to interesting or useful articles. Meet individuals who have helped alleviate human suffering and misery. Discover people who have helped make the world a more beautiful and happier place. Have a great day!

 

Thought for The Day...

 

“One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.”


— Hannah Arendt

 

 

 

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Johann P...

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May 15, 2021

May 15, 2021

 

 

 

Welcome to my experimental blog. Check out the links to interesting or useful articles. Meet individuals who have helped alleviate human suffering and misery. Discover people who have helped make the world a more beautiful and happier place. Have a great day!

 

Thought for The Day...

 

"If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles."

 

— Sun Tzu

 

 

 

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Claudio Monteverdi (1567 – 1643): Puer Natus, Quel Sguardo...

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May 16, 2021

May 16, 2021

 

 

Welcome to my experimental blog. Check out the links to interesting or useful articles. Meet individuals who have helped alleviate human suffering and misery. Discover people who have helped make the world a more beautiful and happier place. Have a great day!

 

 

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"I felt cheated by the way grown-ups told me that the future of the world was bleak when I became a teenager in the 1970s. The pollution explosion was unstoppable. Global famine was inevitable. I...

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May 17, 2021

May 17, 2021

 

 

Welcome to my experimental blog. Check out the links to interesting or useful articles. Meet individuals who have helped alleviate human suffering and misery. Discover people who have helped make the world a more beautiful and happier place. Have a great day!

 

 

Thought for the Day:

 

“That which is not worth contemplating in life is not worth recreating in art.”

 

— Ayn Rand

 

 

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Edward Jenner (1749 – 1823)

 

 

Éric Satie (1866 – 1925): Gymnopédie No.1,...

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May 18, 2021

May 18, 2021

 

 

Welcome to my experimental blog. Check out the links to interesting or useful articles. Meet individuals who have helped alleviate human suffering and misery. Discover people who have helped make the world a more beautiful and happier place. Have a great day!

 

 

Thought for the Day:

 

A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread—and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness—
Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!

 

— Omar Khayyam

 

 

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Omar...

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May 19, 2021

May 19, 2021

 

 

Welcome to my experimental blog. Check out the links to interesting or useful articles. Meet individuals who have helped alleviate human suffering and misery. Discover people who have helped make the world a more beautiful and happier place. Have a great day!

 

 

Thought for the Day:

 

“A man without fear cannot be a slave.“

 

— Edith Hamilton

 

 

SOMEONE YOU SHOULD KNOW: Why Edith Hamilton Feared the Decline of Individualism More Than Atomic Bombs

 

 

PLEASE KEEP OUR...

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May 20, 2021

May 20, 2021

 

 

Welcome to my experimental blog. Check out the links to interesting or useful articles. Meet individuals who have helped alleviate human suffering and misery. Discover people who have helped make the world a more beautiful and happier place. Have a great day!

 

 

Thought for the Day:

 

“Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."

 

— W. Edwards Deming

 

 

PLEASE OFFER SOME MORAL SUPPORT TO OUR NEIGHBORS TO THE NORTH: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and...

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