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July 16, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”I may say that this is the greatest factor: the way in which the expedition is equipped, the way in which every difficulty is foreseen, and precautions taken for meeting or avoiding it. Victory awaits him who has everything in order, luck, people call it. Defeat is certain for him who…
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July 15, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations BIRTHDAYS: 1606 Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. 1638 Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani, Italian composer, born in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Sonata Prima, and Sinfonia Cantabile 1858 Emmeline Pankhurst, British political…
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July 14, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.” ― George Bernard Shaw BIRTHDAYS: 1454 Poliziano, Italian poet and humanist in Florence, born in Montepulciano, Tuscany 1486 Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter. 1671 Jacques D’Allonville, French astronomer and mathematician. 1756 Thomas Rowlandson, English painter, cartoonist…
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July 13, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees.” ― Erno Rubik BIRTHDAYS: 100 BC Julius Caesar, Roman general and statesman. 1787 Pellegrino Rossi, Italian economist and politician, born in Carrara, Duchy of Massa and Carrara. 1864 John Jacob Astor IV,…
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July 12, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.” ― Henry David Thoreau BIRTHDAYS: 1675 Evaristo Felice dall’Abaco, Italian cellist and composer, born in Verona, Republic of Venice. Concerto a più istrumenti, Op. 5: No.…
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July 11, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” ― E.B.…
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July 10, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.” ― Nikola Tesla BIRTHDAYS: 1835 Henryk Wieniawski, Polish violinist and composer. Légende Op. 17 1856 Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist. 1894 Frank Zybach, American farmer and inventor of center-pivot irrigation, US’s…
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July 9, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.” ― Seneca BIRTHDAYS: 1766 Jacob Perkins, American inventor (father of the refrigerator) 1802 Thomas Davenport, American inventor (invented 1st commercial electric motor) 1819 Elias Howe, American inventor best known for his creation of the modern lockstitch sewing machine.…
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July 8, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The moral tragedy that has befallen Americans is our belief that it is okay for government to forcibly use one American to serve the purposes of another—that in my book is a working definition of slavery.” ― Walter E. Williams BIRTHDAYS: 1574 Giovanni Battista Stefanini, Italian organist, maestro di cappella, and…
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July 7, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.” ― Robert A. Heinlein BIRTHDAYS: 1690 Johann Tobias Krebs, German organist and composer, born in Heichelheim, Duchy of Saxe-Weimar. Präludium und Fuge in C 1860 Gustav Mahler, Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the…
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