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December 5, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” — Aristotle BIRTHDAYS: 1666 Francesco Scarlatti, Italian composer. Concerto grosso No. 4 in E Minor 1687 Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist and composer. Concerto Grosso “La Follia” 1848 Edwin Blashfield, American painter. 1869 Ellis…
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December 4, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.” — Thomas Sowell BIRTHDAYS: 1660 Andre Campra, French composer. Marche du triomphe from Tancrède. Tanz aus Hesione Aimable vainqueur. and L’Allemande, and Le Carnaval…
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December 3, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man.” — Walter E. Williams BIRTHDAYS: 1616 John Wallis, English clergyman and mathematician, who is given partial credit for the development of…
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December 2, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.” — Ambrose Bierce BIRTHDAYS: 1578 Agostino Agazzari, Italian composer. Jubilate Deo, and Stabat Mater 1738 Richard Montgomery, Irish-born American military officer who first served in the British Army. 1760 Joseph Graetz, German…
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December 1, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Do not concern yourselves with the mentality of the low. That will only bring you down to their level, where they will defeat you with experience. Instead, fixate your mind and calibrate your frequency to that which is above and you will rise” — Hotep Jesus BIRTHDAYS: 1634 Jan-Erasmus Quellinus [Quellien],…
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November 30, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.” — Ayn Rand BIRTHDAYS: 538 Gregory of Tours, Gallo-Roman historian and Bishop of Tours during the Merovingian period and is known as the “father of French history” 1645 Andreas Werkmeister, German organist, musical theorist, and Baroque composer, born in Benneckenstein, Electorate…
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November 29, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” — Frederick Douglass BIRTHDAYS: 1797 Domenico Gaetano Donizetti, Italian opera composer (L’elisir d’amore; Lucia di Lammermoor). Prendi, per me sei libero (L’elisir d’amore), and L’Aurora, and Una furtiva lagrima. L’ elisir d’ amore. and La fille du régiment –…
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November 28, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.” — Voltaire BIRTHDAYS: 1632 Jean-Baptiste Lully, Italian-born French composer. March for the Turkish Ceremony, and Idylle sur la paix, and Dance of the Sun King Le Roi Soleil King Louis XIV of France, and Entrée d’Apollon, and Suites from Les…
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November 27, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The laws of physics work as well for others as they do for us.” — Robert Heinlein BIRTHDAYS: 1668 Pantaleon Hebenstreit, German musician, composer, and instrument inventor. Hebenstreit’s Bach 1701 Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer, physicist and mathematician. 1731 Gaetano Pugnani, Italian violinist and composer. Sinfonia in B 1741 Jean-Pierre Duport, French…
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November 26, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Another strange notion pervading whole peoples is that the State has money of its own; and nowhere is this absurdity more firmly fixed than in America. The State has no money. It produces nothing. It existence is purely parasitic, maintained by taxation; that is to say, by forced levies on the…
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