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September 4, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “You don’t get to choose the value of what you do in others’ eyes, so you have to take stock in knowing that doing the right thing is enough, no matter who notices.” — John McCarthy BIRTHDAYS: 973 Al-Biruni, Iranian mathematician, astronomer and polymath, born in Kath, Khwarezm, Afrighid dynasty. 1622…
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September 3, 2024
“Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.” — Michael Crichton BIRTHDAYS: 1568 Adriano Banchieri, Italian organist, composer, poet, and Benedictine monk, born in Bologna, Papal States. Contrapunto bestiale, and Dialogo, and La pazzia senile: Act II 1695 Pietro Locatelli, Italian violinist and composer, born in Bergamo,…
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September 2, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The behavior of the Taliban as well as their extremist attitudes do not correspond in any way with a tolerant Islam. We have always been opposed to extremist tendencies of Islam and we still are. We have not stopped insisting on defending an Islam of tolerance which would be profitable to…
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September 1, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.” — Robert A. Heinlein BIRTHDAYS: 1653 Johann Pachelbel, German composer, organist, and teacher who brought the south German organ schools to their peak.…
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August 31, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “It’s not entirely absurd to think that somewhere in the past of mankind someone, for the first time, did in his mind the equivalent of putting an adjective to a noun, and saw, not only a relationship, but this special relationship between two things of different kinds….In sum, all the seemingly…
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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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