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June 10, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” ― H.L. Mencken BIRTHDAYS: 1819 Gustave Courbet, French realist painter. 1831 W. A. Remy [Wilhelm Mayer], Austro-Bohemian composer, born in Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia. Leuchtende Sterne, Op.22 No.1 1832 Nicolaus Otto, German engineer who successfully developed the compressed charge internal combustion…
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June 9, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Facing a non-violent opposition, a totalitarian regime will not retreat a single step; instead it will always display it’s essential nature, retaliating with brute force, whatever the cost in human lives and human liberty.” ― Ai Weiwei BIRTHDAYS: 1588 Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer, born in the Free Imperial City of…
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June 8, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The modern words “brainwashing,” “thought control,” and “menticide” serve to provide a clearer conception of the actual methods by which man’s integrity can be violated. When a concept is given its right name, it can be more easily recognized—and it is with this recognition that the opportunity for systematic correction begins.”…
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June 7, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The Romans’ contribution to science was mostly limited to butchering antiquity’s greatest mathematician, burning the Library of Alexandria, and slowly stifling the sciences that flourished in the colonies of their Empire.” ― Petr Beckmann BIRTHDAYS: 1848 Paul Gauguin, French painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer, whose work has been primarily associated with…
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June 6, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The first gas chambers were constructed in 1939, to implement a Hitler decree dated September 1 of that year, which said that “incurably sick persons should be granted a mercy death.” (It was probably this “medical” origin of gassing that inspired Dr. Servatius’s amazing conviction that killing by gas must be…
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June 5, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”What is your friend: the things you know, or the things you don’t know. First of all, there’s a lot more things you don’t know. And second, the things you don’t know is the birthplace of all your new knowledge! So if you make the things you don’t know your friend,…
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June 4, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.” ― Winston Churchill BIRTHDAYS: 1700 Theodoor Verhaegen, Flemish sculptor 1907 Marjan Kozina, Slovene composer. Divertimento 1, and Bela krajina 1910 Christopher Cockerell, English inventor (Hovercraft) MISCELLANY: BEHOLD MY SHOCKED FACE.…
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June 3, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.” ― Sun Tzu BIRTHDAYS: 1657 Manuel de Egues, Spanish composer. ¡Cupidillo, niño travieso! 1660 Johannes Schenck, Dutch born composer. Chaconne – Duo in RE, and Sonata II – Adagio 1726 James Hutton, Scottish geologist, agriculturalist, chemical manufacturer, naturalist and physician. 1738 Johann…
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June 2, 2024
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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June 1, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.” ― Marcus Aurelius BIRTHDAYS: 1653 Georg Muffat, baroque composer. Passacaglia, and Concerto grosso XII “Propitia Sydera”, Grave – Ciacona, and Sonata II in G Minor, Grave & Allegro 1796 Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot,…
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