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June 19, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: ”I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.” — Blaise Pascal BIRTHDAYS: 1708 Johann Gottlieb Janitsch, German Baroque composer, born in Schweidnitz, Silesia. Sonata in G minor, and Sonata da camera Op.1 no.1 1790 John Gibson, British sculptor. 1623 Blaise Pascal, French…
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June 18, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: ”In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.” — Eric Hoffer BIRTHDAYS: 1511 Bartolommeo Ammanati, Italian sculptor and architect. 1677 Antonio Maria Bononcini, Italian cellist, composer, and maestro di cappella, born in Modena, Duchy of…
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June 17, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: ”If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.” — Thomas Sowell BIRTHDAYS: 1691 Giovanni Paolo Pannini, Italian painter and architect, born in Piacenza, Duchy of Parma and Piacenza. 1818 Charles Gounod, French composer. He wrote twelve operas, of which the most popular…
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June 16, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: ”How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.” — Adam Smith, The Theory Of Moral Sentiments BIRTHDAYS:…
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June 15, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: ”There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man’s needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means.” — Albert Jay Nock BIRTHDAYS:…
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June 14, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: ”Property, not conscience, is the basis of liberty. For the defence of conscience need not arise. Property is always exposed to interference. It is the constant object of policy.” — Lord Acton BIRTHDAYS: 1730 Antonio Sacchini, Italian opera composer, born in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Sinfonia in re 1736 Charles-Augustin…
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June 13, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: ”Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” — C.S. Lewis BIRTHDAYS: 1592 Tobias Michael, German composer, born in Dresden, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire. In Angst und Not, and ‘Fürchte Dich nicht’ 1773…
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June 12, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: ”Science is supposed to be challenged, questioned, tested, and scrutinized. That’s the entire point. If that is not permissible and basic lines of inquiry are censored or taboo, then it’s not science, but secular dogma.” — Zuby BIRTHDAYS: 1468 Juan del Encina, Spanish author and composer. Una Sañosa Porfía, and Triste…
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June 11, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: ”Neither can his mind be thought to be in tune, whose words do jarre; nor hisreason in frame, whose sentence is preposterous.” — Ben Jonson BIRTHDAYS: 1572 Ben Jonson, English playwright, poet and actor. 1672 Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and amateur composer, born in Padua, Republic of Venice. Serenata in…
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June 10, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “In reaction against the age-old slogan, “woman is the weaker vessel,” or the still more offensive, “woman is a divine creature,” we have, I think, allowed ourselves to drift into asserting that “a woman is as good as a man,” without always pausing to think what exactly we mean by that.…
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