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May 26, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Liberty is the essential basis, the sine qua non, of morality. Morality can only exist in a free society, it can exist to the extent freedom exists.” ― Henry Hazlitt BIRTHDAYS: 1098 Hildegard von Bingen, German Benedictine abbess and polymath active as a writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, and as a…
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May 25, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson BIRTHDAYS: 1494 Pontormo, Italian Mannerist painter and…
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May 24, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there’s no place for it in the endeavor of science. We do not know beforehand where fundamental insights will arise from about our mysterious and lovely solar system. The…
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May 23, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Home is not where you live, but where they understand you.” ― Christian Morgenstern BIRTHDAYS: 1620 Pieter Neefs, the Younger, Flemish painter (church interiors). 1696 Johann Caspar Vogler, German composer and organist. Machs mit mir, Gott, nach deiner Gut, and Jesu Leiden, Pein und Tod 1707 Carl Linnaeus, Swedish biologist and physician…
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May 22, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Whatever you do, don’t doubt yourself because of others. That’s the only thing I want to impress upon you, as strongly as I can.” ― Ayn Rand BIRTHDAYS: 1759 Gervais-François Couperin, French organist and composer. Andante (from Sonata Op.1 nº1), and Benedictus de la Messe à L’usage des Paroisses à l’orgue…
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May 21, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”A little learning is a dangerous thing.Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring;There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,and drinking largely sobers us again.” ― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism BIRTHDAYS: 1471 Albrecht Dürer, German Renaissance painter and printmaker. 1633 Joseph de La Barre, French composer. Corant & Var. –…
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May 20, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.” ― Andre Gide BIRTHDAYS: 1593 Jacob Jordaens, Flemish baroque artist. 1660 Andreas Schlüter, German sculptor 1799 Honoré de Balzac, French novelist 1806 John Stuart Mill, English philosopher, political economist, politician and civil servant.…
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May 19, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.” ― Elon Musk BIRTHDAYS: 1862 Mikhail Nesterov, Russian painter. 1878 Adam Carse, English composer and instrument collector. Hopping dance. 1881 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Turkish field marshal, revolutionary statesman, author, and the founding father of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its…
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May 18, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Live with your century, but do not be its creature.” ― Friedrich Schiller BIRTHDAYS: 1830 (Károly) “Karl” Goldmark, Hungarian-Viennese violinist and composer. Violin Concerto No. 1 MISCELLANY: RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU WANT ANOTHER LOCKDOWN: IN 2006. Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration SCIENCE,…
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May 17, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.” ― G.K. Chesterton BIRTHDAYS: 1732 Francesco Pasquale Ricci, Italian composer. Siciliana 1749 Edward Jenner, English physician and scientist who pioneered the concept of vaccines and created the smallpox vaccine, the world’s first vaccine. 1866 Erik Satie, French composer. Je…
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