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September 17, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “In Europe, you say to your soldier, ‘Do this’ and he does it. But I am obliged to say to the American, ‘This is why you ought to do this,’ and then he does it.” — Major General Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben BIRTHDAYS: 1677 Stephen Hales, English physiologist, chemist and inventor…
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September 16, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion andbamboozle requires vigilance, dedication and courage.” — Carl Sagan BIRTHDAYS: 1098 Hildegard of Bingen, also known as the Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath active as a writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, and…
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September 15, 2025
THOUGHT FOR 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…
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September 14, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “If you place your head in a lion’s mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.” — Agatha Christie BIRTHDAYS: 1737 Michael Haydn, Austrian composer. Requiem c-Moll (35:33) 1930 Allan Bloom, American philosopher and author (Closing of the American Mind). MISCELLANEOUS: I’M STILL NOT TIRED…
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September 13, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism–and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.” — Stephen Jay Gould BIRTHDAYS: 1660 Daniel Defoe, English writer, merchant and spy. 1673 Hercule Brehy, Flemish composer and organist, born in Brussels, Spanish Netherlands. Usqueque Domine 1819 Clara Schumann,…
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September 12, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” — H. L. Mencken BIRTHDAYS: 1559 Lodovico Cardi da Cigoli, Italian painter and architect. 1655 Sebastien de Brossard,…
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September 11, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements.” — Ayn Rand BIRTHDAYS: 1653 Johann Pachelbel, German composer, organist, and teacher who brought the south German organ schools to their peak. Ciacona in f-moll 1711 William Boyce, English organist/composer. Symphony no.…
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September 10, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.” — Horace BIRTHDAYS: 1659 Henry Purcell, English composer of Baroque music, most remembered for his more than 100 songs; a tragic opera, Dido and Aeneas; and his incidental music to a version of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer…
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September 9, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” — Leo Tolstoy BIRTHDAYS: 1583 Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian keyboard virtuoso (organist at St. Peter’s Basilica, 1608-28 and 1634-43), and late Renaissance/early Baroque composer, born in Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara. Non vi partite. 1618 Joan Cererols, Catalan musician, composer…
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September 8, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.” — Arnold Toynbee BIRTHDAYS: 1672 Nicolas de Grigny, French organist and composer. Cromorne en taille à 2 parties, and Ave Maris Stella (11:04), and Tierce en Taille 1841 Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer. Slavonic Dance No. 10, and Slavonic dances…
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