November 21, 2023
QUOTE
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.
If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.
Voltaire
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.
So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.
The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.
Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
We are all guilty of the good we did not do
The more a man knows, the less he talks.
Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.
--All from Voltaire
BIRTHDAYS
1694 – Voltaire, French writer and philosopher
1907 – Buck Ram, songwriter and music producer
1924 – Christopher Tolkien, English author and academic
1944 – Harold Ramis, Actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1945 – Goldie Hawn, Actress, singer, and producer
IN MEMORY
1941 – Henrietta Vinton Davis, Actress and playwright
1959 – Max Baer, boxer, referee, and actor
1993 – Bill Bixby, Actor
2017 – David Cassidy, singer-songwriter and guitarist
IN ON THIS DAY
164 BCE – Judas Maccabeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, restores the Temple in Jerusalem. This event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah.
1620 – Plymouth Colony settlers sign the Mayflower Compact
1676 – The Danish astronomer Ole Rømer presents the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.
1783 – In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d’Arlandes make the first untethered hot air balloon flight.
1905 – Albert Einstein’s paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², is published
1942 – The completion of the Alaska Highway.