Thought for the day:

"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."

— Will Durant

 

Birthdays:

1593 Georges de la Tour

1601 Alonzo Cano

1668 Francesco Gasparini: Caro laccio, dolce nodo

1728 Pieter-Jozef Verhaghen

1873 Max Reger: Gloria in excelsis op.59

 

MISCELLANY:

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

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

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