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August 8, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “People who pride themselves on their ‘complexity’ and deride others for being “simplistic” should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.” — Thomas Sowell BIRTHDAYS: 1571 John Ward, English composer. If heav’n’s just wrath, and Come Sable Night 1646 Godfrey Kneller, German-British…
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August 7, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe BIRTHDAYS: 1783 John Heathcoat,…
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August 6, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.” — Alexander Fleming BIRTHDAYS: 1619 Barbara Strozzi, Italian composer and singer of the Baroque Period. During her lifetime, Strozzi published eight volumes of her own music, and had more secular music in print than any other composer of the era. This was…
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August 5, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “He only profits from praise who values criticism.” — Heinrich Heine BIRTHDAYS: 1397 Guillaume Dufay, Franco-Flemish Renaissance composer and theorist, born in Beersel, Burgundian Netherlands. Nuper Rosarum Flores 1607 Philipp Friedrich Boddecker, German composer and court organist, born in Hagenau, Alsace. Holy Roman Empire. Sonata Sopra la Monica 1623 Antonio Cesti,…
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August 4, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man.” — Walter E. Williams BIRTHDAYS: 1502 Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish artist, architect and designer of tapestries and stained glass (court…
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August 3, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Education, you know, means broadening, advancing; and if you limit a teacher to only one side of anything, the whole country will eventually have only one thought, be one individual. I believe in teaching every aspect of every problem or theory.” — John Thomas Scopes BIRTHDAYS: 1645 August Kuhnel, German composer…
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August 2, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Science has no prejudices — though scientists often do.” — Elisha Gray BIRTHDAYS: 1775 José Ángel Lamas, Venezuelan chirimía player, bassoonist, and composer. ‘Popule Meus’ 1835 Elisha Grey, American electrical engineer and inventor (Telephone). 1919 John Pinkerton, pioneering British computer designer. Along with David Caminer, he designed England’s first business computer,…
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August 1, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “It is not enough to discover and prove a useful truth previously unknown, but that it is necessary also to be able to propagate it and get it recognized.” — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck BIRTHDAYS: 10 BC Claudius, Roman emperor (first to be born outside Italy). 1685 Pietro Giuseppe Sandoni, Italian composer, born…
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July 31, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “If you want people to take action, you must refrain from giving them the answers.” — Eliyahu Goldratt BIRTHDAYS: 1595 Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor and architect. 1803 John Ericsson, Swedish-American engineer and inventor (designed the United States Navy’s first screw-propelled steam-frigate USS Princeton). 1848 Jean Robert Planquette, French composer. The French…
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July 30, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “We need to shut down the government for two weeks to slow the spread of totalitarianism. Don’t worry, Senator, it’s only for two weeks.” — Cecil Charles BIRTHDAYS: 1511 Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and art historian (Vasari’s Lives), born in Arezzo, Republic of Florence. 1818 Emily Brontë, English writer best known…
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