Michael Dobson |
February 15
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“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.”
Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer
born February 15, 1564
Michael Dobson |
January 9
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"They never think up anything original. They'd make fine university professors."
Karel Čapek, playwright
born January 9, 1890
Michael Dobson |
January 10
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"The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections."
John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (Lord Acton), historian
born January 10, 1834
Michael Dobson |
January 11
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"Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion."
Alexander Hamilton, politician
born January 11, 1755 or 1757
Michael Dobson |
January 12
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"People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much to hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous."
Edmund Burke, politician
born January 12, 1729