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August 19, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.” ― Orville Wright BIRTHDAYS: 1580 Pierre Vernier, French mathematician, inventor of the vernier caliper used for taking accurate measurements. 1621 Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter. 1808 James…
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August 18, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “If printing money would end poverty, printing diplomas would end stupidity.” ― Javier Milei BIRTHDAYS: 1750 Antonio Salieri, Italian composer and teacher of the classical period. Sinfonia La Veneziana 1805 Josef Danhauser, Austrian painter. 1925 Brian Aldiss, British sci-fi author. MISCELLANY: IT WOULD BE GREAT IF THIS IS REAL. ABC7 Exclusive:…
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August 17, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Journalism is printing what someone else doesn’t want printed. Everything else is public relations.” ― George Orwell BIRTHDAYS: 1578 Francesco Albani, Italian painter. 1607 Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician who needed wider margins (Fermat’s Last Theorem) 1686 Nicola Antonio Porpora, Italian composer and singing teacher, born in Naples, Kingdom of Naples,…
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August 16, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don’t have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.…
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August 15, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” ― Milan Kundera BIRTHDAYS: 1619 Hubertus Quellinus, Flemish cartoonist and painter. 1702 Francesco Zuccarelli, Italian rococo painter and etcher. 1725 Ferdinando Bertoni, Italian composer. Allegretto, and Sonata in D Major 1736 Johann Christoph Kellner, German organist and composer.…
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August 14, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been too much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking and losing their lives to protect him. They are fighting the sea, fighting the land, fighting disease and insects and weather and space and time, for him, while he…
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August 13, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “In 1946 the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution reading in part, “freedom of information is a fundamental human right, and the touchstone of all the freedoms to which the United Nations is consecrated.” This is our touchstone as well. This is the code of the Voice of America. We…
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August 12, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “What is the human purpose in society? It is to exchange one good for another good more desired. Putting it on a personal basis, it is a matter of benefiting yourself by getting something you desire from another person who, at the same time, benefits himself by getting something that he…
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August 11, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!” ― Robert G. Ingersoll BIRTHDAYS: 1737 Joseph Nollekens, English sculptor. 1833 Robert…
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August 10, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.” ― Adlai Stevenson BIRTHDAYS: 1556 Philipp Nicolai, German Lutheran pastor, poet, composer and hymnodist, born in Mengeringhausen, Landgraviate of Hesse, Holy Roman Empire. Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme 1560 Hieronymus Praetorius, German choral composer,…
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