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May 16, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”There is one and only one social responsibility of business – to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.” ― Milton…
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May 15, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.” ― Alfred North Whitehead BIRTHDAYS: 1567 Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer and pioneer in development…
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May 14, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.” ― Aldous Huxley BIRTHDAYS: 1652 Johann Philipp Förtsch, German Baroque composer, statesman, and physician. ‘Selig sind die Toten’ 1727 Thomas Gainsborough, English leading portrait painter (Blue Boy). 1929 Barbara Branden, Canadian writer…
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May 13, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.” ― Thomas Sowell BIRTHDAYS: 1842 Arthur Sullivan, English composer. He is best known for 14 operatic collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including H.M.S. Pinafore, The…
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May 12, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Honor is decency without vanity.” ― Arthur Koestler BIRTHDAYS: 1662 Jan Frans van Bloemen, Flemish landscape painter 1812 Edward Lear, English landscape painter and poet (Complete Nonsense Book) 1820 Florence Nightingale, English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. 1828 Gabriel Dante Rossetti, English Pre-Raphaelite figure poet and painter…
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May 11, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.” ― Abraham Lincoln BIRTHDAYS: 1791 Jan Václav Voříšek, Czech pianist, organist, and composer. Sonata quasi una fantasia b-moll op.20 (12:37) 1823 Alfred Stevens, Belgian painter 1824 Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor 1827 Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter…
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May 10, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”We must operate with partial knowledge, and be provisionally content with probabilities.” ― Ariel Durant BIRTHDAYS: 1697 Jean-Marie Leclair l’aîné (the elder), French violinist and Baroque composer, Trio Sonata in D Minor, Op. 4, No. 1 1727 Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, French economist and statesman. 1754 Asmus Jakob Carstens, Danish-German Neoclassical…
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May 9, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” ― Marie Curie BIRTHDAYS: 1265 Dante Alighieri, Italian poet and author (Dante’s Inferno, Divina Commedia) 1740 Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (Barber of Seville). Il barbiere…
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May 8, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions.” ― Elie Wiesel, Night BIRTHDAYS: 1673 Johann Valentin Eckelt, German composer. Ciaconne 1737 Edward Gibbon, English essayist, historian, and politician. 1846 Oscar…
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May 7, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.” ― Primo Levi BIRTHDAYS: 1704 Carl Heinrich Graun, German tenor, opera composer. Trio Sonata A Major GraunWV B:XV:62, Adagio, Allegro 1711…
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