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May 20, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire…
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May 19, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “How can you thank a man for giving you what’s already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?” — Malcolm X BIRTHDAYS: 1616 Johann Jakob Froberger, German singer, organist, and composer, baptized in Stuttgart, Duchy of Württemberg. Toccata, FbWV 102, and Toccata…
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May 18, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “He that letsthe small things bind himleaves the greatundone behind him.” — Piet Hein, “Small Things and Great” BIRTHDAYS: 1048 Omar Khayyám, Persian mathematician (cubic equations), astronomer (Jalali calendar, basis of the Persian calendar), poet (quatrains), and philosopher, born in Nishapur, Khorasan. 1830 (Károly) “Karl” Goldmark, Hungarian-Viennese violinist and composer. Air…
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May 17, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: ”If science ceases to be a rebellion against authority, then it does not deserve the talents of our brightest children.” — Freeman Dyson BIRTHDAYS: 1749 Edward Jenner, English physician and scientist who pioneered the concept of vaccines and created the smallpox vaccine, the world’s first vaccine. 1866 Erik Satie, French composer.…
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May 16, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: ”There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.” — Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress BIRTHDAYS: 1641 Dudley North, English financier and economist (wrote work advocating for free-trade.…
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May 15, 2025
”He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.” — Confucius BIRTHDAYS: 1565 Henrick de Keyser, Dutch architect and sculptor (master builder of Amsterdam, Zuiderkerk church), born in Utrecht. 1567 Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer and pioneer in development of opera. Sì ch’io vorrei morire, and L`Orfeo (1:36) 1848 Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian…
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May 14, 2025
”The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement. If Eudaimonia, or happiness, is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence; and this will be that of the best thing in…
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May 13, 2025
”There’s only one way to improve society. Present it with a single improved unit: yourself.” — Albert Jay Nock BIRTHDAYS: 1756 Wojciech Żywny, Polish pianist, composer, and Chopin’s first piano teacher. Polonez 1794 Louis Léopold Robert, Swiss painter. 1842 Arthur Sullivan, English composer. He is best known for 14 operatic collaborations with the dramatist W.…
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May 12, 2025
”The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if…
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May 11, 2025
”Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.” — Richard P. Feynman BIRTHDAYS: 1731 Johann Gottfried Seyfert, German composer and violinist, born in Augsburg, Electorate of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire. Sinfonia D-Dur 1791 Jan Václav Voříšek, Czech pianist, organist, and composer, born in Vamberk, Kingdom of Bohemia. Sonata quasi una fantasia…
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