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August 30, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe BIRTHDAYS: 1609 Artus Quellinus,…
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August 29, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Creative activity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.” ― Arthur Koestler BIRTHDAYS: 1609 Sassoferrato [Giovanni B Salvi], Italian painter. 1632 John Locke, English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known…
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August 28, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The rule of law does not mean the rule by law.” ― Neil Gorsuch BIRTHDAYS: 865 Rhazes [Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyāʾ al-Rāzī], Persian physician, philosopher, and writer. 1476 Kanō Motonobu, Japanese painter and calligrapher (Kanō school of painting) 1749 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German polymath and writer, who is widely…
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August 27, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “It could be that the climate alarmists have answers to rebut these critics and their data, but if so, they are not showing it. Rather than engaging in scientific debate, they have evaded it, choosing instead to try to stop dissenting publications and cut off the funding of their opponents. That…
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August 26, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” ― Richard Buckminster Fuller BIRTHDAYS: 1687 Willem de Fesch, Dutch violinist and composer. Sonata in d-minor Op. 8 No. 3 for cello & bassoon, and trio sonata opus 7,1 1726…
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August 25, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” ― Leo Tolstoy BIRTHDAYS: 1836 Bret Harte, American author (Outcasts of Poker Flat) 1877 Joshua L. Cowen, American inventor (electric train). 1913 Walt Kelly, American cartoonist and animator (Pogo) 1918 Leonard Bernstein, American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator,…
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August 24, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Censorship is the child of fear the father of ignorance and the desperate weapon of fascists everywhere.” ― Laurie Halse Anderson BIRTHDAYS: 1552 Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter, born in Bologna, Papal States. 1561 Bartholomeus Pitiscus, 16th-century German trigonometrist, astronomer and theologian who first coined the word trigonometry. 1579 John Amner, English…
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August 23, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “In today’s hyperlinked world, solving problems anywhere, solves problems everywhere.” ― Peter H. Diamandis BIRTHDAYS: 1727 Friedrich Hartmann Graf, German flautist and composer. Andante 1769 Georges Cuvier, French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the “founding father of paleontology”. 1846 Alexander Milne Calder, Scottish-American sculptor. 1849 William Ernest Henley, English…
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August 22, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.” ― Dorothy Parker BIRTHDAYS: 1681 Pierre Danican Philidor,…
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August 21, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Science should be about the pursuit of truth, and not about the defense of one’s preferred political ideology or personal beliefs.” ― Gad Saad BIRTHDAYS: 1689 José Pradas Gallén, Spanish composer. Concierto, and “Qué tiernamente se queja” 1725 Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter. 1754 William Murdoch, Scottish inventor (oscillating cylinder steam engine)…
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