THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“Let us not forget that violence does not and cannot exist by itself; it is invariably intertwined with the lie. They are linked in the most intimate, most organic and profound fashion: violence cannot conceal itself behind anything except lies, and lies have nothing to maintain them save violence. Anyone who has once proclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose the lie as his principle.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

BIRTHDAYS:

43 BC Ovid [Publius Ovidius Naso], Roman poet (Metamorphoses)

1741 Jean Antoine Houdon, French sculptor.

1836 Edward Poynter, British painter.

1828 Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright and theatre director.

1847 Gavriil Musicescu, Romainian composer. Doamne miluesti, and Sfânt este Domnul Savaoth

1856 Frederick Winslow Taylor, American mechanical engineer. He was widely known for his methods to improve industrial efficiency.

1873 Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. Piano Concerto no.2 op.18

1925 David Warren, Australian scientist and inventor (Flight Data Recorder; Cockpit Voice Recorder – “the black box”).

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