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February 3, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “There’s only one way to improve society. Present it with a single improved unit: yourself.” — Albert Jay Nock BIRTHDAYS: 1809 Felix Mendelssohn, German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. “Hora est” MWV B 18, and Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 14 1907 James A. Michener, American author. 1920…
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February 2, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.” — David Ricardo BIRTHDAYS: 1669 Louis Marchand, French Baroque organist and composer. Dialogue, and Plein Jeu et Tierce en Taille 1875 Friedrich-Max “Fritz” Kreisler, Austrian-American violinist and composer. Liebesfreud 1905 Ayn Rand [Alisa Zinov’yevna Rosenbaum], Russian-American…
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February 1, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Enter into the Royal Exchange of London, a place more respectable than many courts, in which deputies from all nations assemble for the advantage of mankind. There the Jew, the Mahometan, and the Christian bargain with one another as if they were of the same religion, and bestow the name of…
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January 31, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.” — Marcus Aurelius BIRTHDAYS:…
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January 30, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Certainty is the lot of those who do not ask questions.” — Gregory Benford BIRTHDAYS: 1505 Thomas Tallis, English composer. O Lord, give thy Holy Spirit, and Why Fum’th in Fight, and If Ye Love Me 1905 Emilio G. Segrè, Italian and naturalized-American physicist and Nobel laureate, who discovered the elements…
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January 28, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.” — Thomas Paine BIRTHDAYS: 1737 Thomas Paine, English-born American Founding Father, French Revolutionary, inventor, and political philosopher. 1860 Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and short-story writer. 1862 Frederick Delius, British composer. Summer Evening, and Florida Suite 1901 Allen B. DuMont, American engineer and inventor…
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January 28, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.” — Bruce Lee BIRTHDAYS: 1225 Thomas Aquinas, Italian Dominican friar and priest, the foremost Scholastic thinker, as well as one of the most influential philosophers and theologians in the Western tradition. 1693 Gregor…
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January 27, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “We don’t apologize for a joke. We are comics. We are here to make you laugh. If you don’t get it, then don’t watch us.” — Joan Rivers BIRTHDAYS: 1585 Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter, specialized in winter landscapes. 1679 Jean-François de Troy, French painter (Rococo style) 1756 Mozart, Austrian composer, widely…
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January 26, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.” — Milton Friedman BIRTHDAYS: 1708 William Hayes, British composer and organist. Harpsichord concerto in G-major 1786 Benjamin Haydon, British painter. 1831 Mary Mapes Dodge, American children’s author (St. Nicholas Magazine), editor and writer…
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January 25, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Now in the light of past and present events the bitter truth must be spoken. We feared too little and we hoped too much. We underestimated the bestiality of the enemy; we overestimtaed the humanity, the wisdom, the sense of justice of our friends.” — Chaim Weizmann, Address to 22nd Zionist…
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