THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”

— Thomas Sowell

BIRTHDAYS:

1748 Jean-Dominique, comte de Cassini, French astronomer.

1789 Horace Vernet, French painter (battles and Orientalist subjects).

1926 Paul Berg, American biochemist (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1980 for recombinant DNA).

1927 James Goldman, American screenwriter and playwright (The Lion in Winter).

1930 Thomas Sowell, an American economist, social theorist, and author known for his influential writings on economics, race, ethnicity, culture, social policy, and the history of ideas, often emphasizing empirical evidence, free-market principles, and critiques of government intervention and affirmative action.

MISCELLANEOUS:

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