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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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May 31, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Like all cults, this new one adeptly represses heresy. . . . In defiance of the Western scientific tradition, which maintains that skepticism of inferences drawn from observation is always in order, and that all accepted conclusions are always subject to review and potential overthrow by new data, the climate catastrophists…
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May 30, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Belief gets in the way of learning.” ― Robert A. Heinlein BIRTHDAYS: 1578 Valentin Dretzel, German composer. Capriccio in a 1623 Wallerant Vaillant, French painter and engraver. 1892 Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter. 1900 James A. Parsons, American metallurgist and inventor (stainless steel). MISCELLANY: I WAS BEGINNING TO WONDER IF ANYONE WAS…
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May 29, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”How are we to live in an atomic age?” Lewis asks. “I am tempted to reply: ‘Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land and…
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May 28, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Any human endeavor rooted in the pursuit of truth must rely on fact and not feelings.” ― Gad Saad BIRTHDAYS: 1830 Carl Filtsch, Transylvanian child piano prodigy, and composer. Adieu. 1840 Hans Makart, Austrian painter 1841 Giovanni Sgambati, Italian pianist and composer. Gondoliera. 1853 Carl Larsson, Swedish painter 1858 Carl Richard…
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May 27, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”My definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree?…how much of what I earn belongs to you–and why?” ― Walter Williams BIRTHDAYS: 1799 Fromental Halévy, French composer. Le voici donc enfin l’instant de la vengeance 1837 Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and…
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