Thought for the Day:

"Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one."

— Hannah Arendt

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

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Birthdays:

1653 Georg Muffat:  Sonata V aus Armonico Tributo, and Ciacona in G

Thought for the Day:

"The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else."

— Frédéric Bastiat

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

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Birthdays:

1614 Benjamin Rogers: Voluntary in D Minor, Voluntary in C Major, and Te Deum Patrem, and Prelude

1857 Edward Elgar:  Pomp...

Thought for the Day:

"Freedom of press and speech. A socialist government totally annihilates these freedoms. It turns the press and every public forum into a vehicle of hysterical propaganda in its own behalf, and it engages in the relentless persecution of everyone who dares to deviate by so much as an inch from its official party line."

— George Reisman, Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

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Thought for the Day:

"We long to have a home where civil freedoms are respected, where our children will not be subject to mass surveillance, abuse of human rights, political censorship and mass incarceration. We stand with all the free peoples of the world and hope you stand with us in our quest for justice and freedom."

— Joshua Wong Chi-fung

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

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Thought for the Day:

"High in the North in a land called Svithjod there is a mountain. It is a hundred miles long and a hundred miles high and once every thousand years a little bird comes to this mountain to sharpen its beak. When the mountain has thus been worn away a single day of eternity will have passed."

— Hendrik Willem Van Loon

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

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Thought for the Day:

"Everyone carries a part of society on his shoulders; no one is relieved of his share of responsibility by others. And no one can find a safe way out for himself if society is sweeping toward destruction. Therefore, everyone, in his own interests, must thrust himself vigorously into the intellectual battle. None can stand aside with unconcern; the interest of everyone hangs on the result. Whether he chooses or not, every man is drawn into the great historical...

Thought for the Day:

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

— Benjamin Franklin

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

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Birthdays:

1848 Paul Gauguin

1867 Luigi Maurizio Tedeschi:  Elegia per Arpa e Violoncello (o Violino), Op. 22

Thought for the Day:

"Education, I am convinced, must be nothing more than this: The journey toward the limits of Reason, if any there be."

— Richard Mitchell

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth

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Birthdays:

1671 Tomaso Albinoni:  Adagio

1810 Robert Schumann:  Träumerei, "Kinderszenen" No. 7, Scenes...

Thought for the Day:

"To disarm the people--that was the best and most effective way to enslave them"

— George Mason

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth

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Birthdays:

1781 George Stephenson

1810 Carl Otto Ehrenfried Nicolai:  Overture of The Merry Wives of Windsor

1829 Gaetano Braga:  La Serenata

Thought for the Day:

"School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is."

— Ivan Illich

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

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Birthdays:

1819 Gustave Courbet

1831 W. A. Remy:  Drei Tonbilder, Op. 22: I - "Leuchtende Sterne", and Drei Tonbilder, Op. 22: II - Im...

Thought for the Day:

"There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him."

— Robert A. Heinlein

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

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I'LL PUT A FRESH POT OF COFFEE ON. Hong Kong Is a 'Wake-Up Call for the World'

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Thought for the Day:

"We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate."

— Thomas Jefferson

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

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Thought for the Day:

"Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom, socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man; socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude."

— Alexis de Tocqueville

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

Thought for the Day:

"If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?"

— Frederic Bastiat

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Dec...

Thought for the Day:

"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."

— George Bernard Shaw

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth

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Birthdays:

1594 Nicolas Poussin

1728 Pietro Alessandro Pavona:  "Regine Coeli"

1821 Nikolay Zaremba:  Overture for orchestra

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Thought for the Day:

"In reaction against the age-old slogan, "woman is the weaker vessel," or the still more offensive, "woman is a divine creature," we have, I think, allowed ourselves to drift into asserting that "a woman is as good as a man," without always pausing to think what exactly we mean by that. What, I feel, we ought to mean is something so obvious that it is apt to escape attention altogether, viz: (...) that a woman is just as much an ordinary human being as a man,...

Thought for the Day:

"Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions."

— G.K. Chesterton

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth

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Birthdays:

1691 Giovanni Paolo Pannini

1818 Charles Gounod: "Je veux vivre dans le rêve", and Walpurgis Night, and Walpurgis Night (Maya Plisetskaya), and Soldier...

Thought for the Day:

"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours."

— Ayn Rand

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

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Thought for the Day:

"Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual."

— Arthur Koestler

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth

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Birthdays:

1623 Blaise Pascal

1708 Johann Gottlieb Janitsch:  Sonata da Camera in c minor, Op.5

Thought for the Day:

"Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life."

— Elie Wiesel

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth

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Birthdays:

1615 Salvatore Rosa

1756 Joseph...