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July 19, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one’s imagination – perhaps more importantly – creativity is the power to act.” — Ai Weiwei BIRTHDAYS: 1789 John Martin, English painter and engraver. 1797 Johann Gottlieb Schneider,…
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July 18, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “People too weak to follow their own dreams will always try to discourage yours.” — Zuby BIRTHDAYS: 1670 Giovanni Battista Bononcini, Italian cellist and opera composer (Astianatte), born in Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio. Ombra mai fu, and “Sempre piango / Sempre rido, e dir non so” (duetto) 1635 Robert…
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July 17, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.” — Booker T. Washington BIRTHDAYS: 1702 Johann Schneider, German composer and pupil of Bach, born in Coburg, Duchy of…
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July 16, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.” — Elie Wiesel BIRTHDAYS: 1704 John Kay, English inventor (developed the flying shuttle). 1722 Joseph Wilton, English sculptor (Westminster Abbey). 1723 Joshua Reynolds, English portrait painter. 1796 Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French painter. 1822 Luigi Arditi,…
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July 15, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.” — Alexander Pope BIRTHDAYS: 1606 Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. 1638 Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani, Italian…
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July 14, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “A really good government is a government under which people are permitted to take risks of loss.” — R.C. Hoiles BIRTHDAYS: 1486 Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter. 1862 Gustav Klimt, Austrian Symbolist painter. 1707 Jacques-Philippe Lamoninary, French composer. Sonate 1 opus 1756 Thomas Rowlandson, English painter, cartoonist and etcher. MISCELLANEOUS: SAY IT…
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July 13, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.” — Buckminster Fuller BIRTHDAYS: 100 BC Julius Caesar, Roman general and statesman. 1944 Ernő Rubik, Hungarian architect and inventor, widely known for creating the Rubik’s Cube. MISCELLANEOUS: PLEASE FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELTS. Elon Musk’s GROK 4…
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July 12, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” — Epicurus BIRTHDAYS: 1675 Evaristo Felice dall’Abaco, Italian cellist and composer, born in Verona, Republic of Venice. Op. 5: No. 6 in D major,…
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July 11, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Knowledge isn’t free. You have to pay attention.” — Richard Feynman BIRTHDAYS: 1810 Eugène Simonis, Belgian sculptor. 1811 William Robert Grove, Welsh physicist and inventor of the first fuel cell. 1834 James McNeill Whistler, American-British painter 1837 Paul Lacombe, French composer. Dialogue sentimental, and Aria, and Suite 2 Lento à Limoux,…
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July 10, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.” — Eric Hoffer BIRTHDAYS: 1759 Sophia Maria Westenholz (née Fritscher), German singer, composer, and educator, born in Neubrandenburg, Swedish Pomerania. Theme and Variations 1856 Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American engineer,…
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