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May 30, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Don’t listen to the person who has the answers; listen to the person who has the questions.” — Albert Einstein BIRTHDAYS: 1808 Joaquim Casimiro Jr., Portuguese composer. Grandiosa Missa (excertos 2/3: Gratias, Domine Deus) 1900 James A. Parsons, American metallurgist and inventor (stainless steel). 1959 Claudia Alexander, Canadian-born American NASA Scientist…
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May 29, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.” — G.K. Chesterton BIRTHDAYS: 1741 Johann Gottfried Krebs, German composer, born in Zwickau, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire. Fantasia for Oboe and Organ in F –…
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May 28, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “But let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then tell me how much of what I earn belongs to you – and why?” — Walter E. Williams BIRTHDAYS: 1830 Carl Filtsch, Transylvanian child piano…
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May 27, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.” — Thomas Paine BIRTHDAYS: 1794 Cornelius Vanderbilt, American business magnate who built his…
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May 26, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” — Aristotle BIRTHDAYS: 1591 Dirck Janszoon Sweelinck, Dutch composer, baptized in Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands. Fantasia cromatica 1602 Philippe de Champaigne, French painter. 1731 Orazio Mei, Italian organist, and composer,…
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May 25, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “History is the mighty Tower of Experience, which Time has built amidst the endless fields of bygone ages. It is no easy task to reach the top of this ancient structure and get the benefit of the full view. There is no elevator, but young feet are strong and it can…
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May 24, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.” — Bertrand Russell…
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May 23, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.” — Isaac Asimov BIRTHDAYS: 1620 Pieter Neefs, the Younger, Flemish painter (church interiors) 1696 Johann Caspar Vogler, German composer and organist, born in Hausen, Schwarzburg-Arnstad. Machs mit mir Gott, nach deiner Güt 1707 Carl Linnaeus, Swedish biologist and physician…
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May 22, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.” — John Stuart Mill BIRTHDAYS: 1660 Andreas Schlüter, German sculptor, baptized in Free Imperial City of Hamburg. 1759 Gervais-François Couperin, French…
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May 21, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Intellectual freedom is essential — freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate and freedom from pressure by officialdom and prejudices. Such freedom of thought is the only guarantee against an infection of people by mass myths, which, in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues, can…
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