Thought for the Day:

"So let’s take on this issue. In Ayn Rand’s novels, all the heroes are rich and the bad guys are poor, right? It’s closer to the opposite. In Atlas Shrugged, virtually every one of the heroes loses a fortune, either passing it up or actively renouncing it, and virtually every one of the heroes goes through a period of poverty in order to stand up for what he believes in."

― Robert Tracinski

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Thought for the Day:

"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."

― Ayn Rand

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Birthdays:

1714 Gottfried August Homilius:  'Hilf Herr Jesu lass gelingen', and 2 motets

1875 "Fritz...

Thought for the Day:

"Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free."

― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Birthdays:

1525 Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina:  Magnificat Primi Toni, and Vestiva...

Thought for the Day:

"The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter."

― Hannah Arendt

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

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Birthdays:

1913 Rosa Parks

Thought for the Day:

"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."

― G.K. Chesterton

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

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Birthdays:

1748 Christian Gottlob Neefe:  Sonata No. 1

Thought for the Day:

"Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are."

― Rudyard Kipling

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Birthdays:

1695 Andre Cheron: Passacaille, Sonata in g-minor,...

Thought for the Day:

"A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years."

― Lysander Spooner

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

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Birthdays:

1804 John Deere

1812 Charles Dickens

1825 Crystobal Oudrid y Segura:  "El Sitio de Zaragoza", and El...

Thought for the Day:

"Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within."

― Hannah Arendt

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

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Thought for the Day:

"I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed."

― Booker T. Washington

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Thought for the Day:

"All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts."

― Ludwig von Mises

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Birthdays:

1702 Jean-Pierre Guignon:  "Les Sauvages", transcriptions des...

Thought for the Day:

"If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a human need."

― Ai Weiwei

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Birthdays:

1755 Albert Christoph Dies

1800 William Henry Fox Talbot

1810...

Thought for the Day:

"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."

― Frederick Douglass

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THIS WILL END WHEN LEADERS BEGIN TO LISTEN: What the Truckers Want

WE'RE IN GOOD HANDS:  With Inflation at a 40-Year High, the Fed Is...

Thought for the Day:

"The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally he is very apt to spread discontent among those who are."

― H.L. Mencken

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Thought for the Day:

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."

― Frederick...

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Thought for the Day:

"Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right."

― H.L. Mencken

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

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HAPPY GALILEO DAY:  "Galileo:...

Thought for the Day:

"Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous. Among people of every race, color, and creed, all around the world, socialism has led to hunger in countries that used to have surplus food to export.... Nevertheless, for many of those who deal primarily in ideas, socialism remains an attractive idea -- in fact, seductive. Its every failure is explained away as due to the inadequacies of particular leaders."

― Thomas...

Thought for the Day:

"The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion."

― Ludwig von Mises

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

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Birthdays:

1653 Arcangelo Corelli:  Concerto grosso op. 6, no. 7

1912 Alice ...

Thought for the Day:

"Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught."

― Ambrose Bierce

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Thought for the Day:

"There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose...

Thought for the Day:

"For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them."

― Nicolaus Copernicus

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Birthdays:

1763 Adalbert Gyrowetz:  Grand Trio Concertante.

1791 Carl Czerny:  Fantasia concertante for piano,...