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July 5, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.” ― Jean Cocteau BIRTHDAYS: 1654 Antonio Maria Pacchioni, Baroque composer, known for his polyphonic church music. Dixit Dominus 1810 P. T. Barnum, American showman, businessman and politician remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and founding the Ringling…
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July 4, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘Press On!’…
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July 3, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.” ― Alfred Korzybski BIRTHDAYS: 1550 Jakob Handl [Petelin], German-Austrian composer (Opus musicum), and Cistercian monk, born in Reifnitz, Carniola. Canite tuba in Sion, and Ecce quomodo moritur iustus 1643 Alessandro Stradella,…
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July 2, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.” ― G. K. Chesterton 1581 Johann Staden, German baroque organist and composer, baptized in Free Imperial City of Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire. Toccata. MISCELLANY: HARSH BUT FAIR. The Surgeon General Aims…
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July 1, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.” ― Thomas Sowell 1586 Claudio Saracini, Italian composer, born in Siena, Grand Duchy of Tuscany. le Seste musiche…
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June 30, 2024
Happy Birthday Thomas Sowell. THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.” ― Isaac Asimov 1671 Teodorico Pedrini, also known as De Lige, Italian Vincentian priest, musician, composer, and missionary at the imperial court of China (1711-46), born in Fermo, Marche, Papal States. Sonata nº 1,…
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June 29, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Most of us can’t rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven’t time, money or that many friends. The things you’re looking for… are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a…
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June 28, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.” ― Thomas Jefferson BIRTHDAYS: 1547 Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian composer. Sinfonia…
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June 27, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”I don’t want to believe. I want to know.” ― Carl Sagan BIRTHDAYS: 1615 Johann Paul Schor, Austrian artist. 1789 Philipp Friedrich Silcher, German composer. Serenade an Selma, and Sanctus 1850 Lafcadio Hearn, American author. 1872 Paul Laurence Dunbar, American poet, novelist, and short story writer of the late 19th and…
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June 26, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” ― George Orwell BIRTHDAYS: 1582 Johannes Schultz, German composer, born in Lüneburg, Hanseatic League. Resonet in Laudibus 1730 Charles Messier, French astronomer. He published an astronomical catalogue consisting of 110 nebulae…
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