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January 5, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.” — Aldous Huxley BIRTHDAYS: 1560 William Cobbold, British organist and composer.New Fashions 1596 Henry Lawes, English composer. About the Sweet Bag of the Bee, and The Angler’s Song 1667 Antonio Lotti, Italian…
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January 3, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;Refusing to set aside trivial preferences.Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;Attempting to compel others to believe and…
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January 2, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “People think of education as something they can finish.” — Isaac Asimov BIRTHDAYS: 1732 František “Franz” Xaver Brixi, Czech classical composer and kapellmeister, born in Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia. Pastores, and Pastorella in C für Orgel. 1777 Christian Daniel Rauch, German sculptor (Frederick II of Prussia equestrian statue), born in Arolsen,…
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January 1, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.” — Edmund Burke BIRTHDAYS: 1449 Lorenzo de’ Medici, talian statesman, the de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic, and the most powerful patron of Renaissance culture in Italy. 1628 Christoph Bernhard, German Baroque composer…
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December 31, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Socialists ignore the side of man that is the spirit. They can provide you shelter, fill your belly with bacon and beans, treat you when you’re ill, all the things guaranteed to a prisoner or a slave. They don’t understand that we also dream.” — Ronald Reagan BIRTHDAYS: 1573 Giulio Cesare…
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December 30, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “We’ve gotta become the Martians. I’m a Martian – I tell you to become Martians. And we’ve gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance…
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December 29, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody’s pocket.” — Ambrose Bierce BIRTHDAYS: 1776 Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist and inventor (waterproof fabric). 1800 Charles Goodyear, American self-taught chemist and manufacturing engineer who developed vulcanized rubber, for which he received patent number…
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December 28, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.” — Mortimer J. Adler BIRTHDAYS: 1651 Johann Krieger, German organist and composer, born in the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire. Es ist mir von Natur gegeben, and Fantasie in d, and Vater unser im Himmelreich, and…
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December 27, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “When ships to sail the void between the stars have been built, there will step forth men to sail these ships.” — Johannes Kepler BIRTHDAYS: 1571 Johannes Kepler, German astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, natural philosopher and writer on music. 1572 Jan Campanus, Czech composer and humanist, born in Vodňany, Kingdom of Bohemia.…
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December 26, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “But life does not ask us what we want. It presents us with options. Economics is one of the ways of trying to make the most of those options.” — Thomas Sowell BIRTHDAYS: 1633 Charles Emmanuel Biset, Flemish painter. 1687 Johann Georg Pisendel, German violinist and composer, born in Cadolzburg, Electorate…
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