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May 6, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do” ― Jose Ortega y Gasset BIRTHDAYS: 1581 Frans Francken the Younger, Flemish painter 1606 Lorenzo Lippi, Italian poet and painter 1856 Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis. 1858 Georges Hüe, French composer. Fantasia. 1870 Amadeo…
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May 5, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.” ― Albert Jay Nock BIRTHDAYS: 1680 Giuseppe Porsile, Neapolitan composer. Arianna infelice (extrait), and La Bella Ragione 1842 Johann Nepomuk Fuchs, Austrian composer. Trio in D-dur 1903 James Beard,…
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May 4, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.” ― André Gide BIRTHDAYS: 1655 Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian instrument maker – considered the inventor of the piano. 1870 Alexandre Benois, Russian artist. 1940 Robin Cook, American physician and novelist. 1744 Marianne Martinez, Austrian composer. Sinfonia in C-Dur. and Piano…
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May 3, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.” ― Eric Hoffer BIRTHDAYS: 1649 Johann Valentin Meder, German composer. Ciaconne 1729 Florian Leopold Gassmann, Bohemian composer. Stonatrilla, and Ouvertüre aus L’Amore Artigiano MISCELLANY: TO BE FAIR, IT WAS THE LARGEST UNCONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL IN HISTORY…
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May 2, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Contrary to a popular impression, profits are achieved not by raising prices, but by introducing economies and efficiencies that cut costs of production.” ― Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson BIRTHDAYS: 1660 Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian baroque composer. Dormi o fulmine di guerra, and Concerto No. 5 in D minor – I.…
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May 1, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”In 1987, Gorbachev said he wanted to build Alexander Dubček’s “socialism with a human face,” to which I responded that Frankenstein’s monster also had a human face. Communism goes against human nature and can only be sustained by totalitarian repression.” ― Garry Kasparov BIRTHDAYS: 1567 Michiel Janszoon van Mierevelt, Dutch royal…
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April 30, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.” ― Ambrose Bierce BIRTHDAYS: 1777 Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, geodesist, and physicist who contributed to many fields in mathematics and science. 1870 Franz Lehár, Austro-Hungarian composer. He is mainly known…
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April 29, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”There’s an old saying in business: You’re the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” ― Peter H. Diamandis BIRTHDAYS: 1636 Esaias Reusner, German lutenist and composer. Sonatina D major 1854 Henri Poincaré, French mathematician 1860 Lorado Taft, American sculptor 1863 William Randolph Hearst, American businessman, newspaper…
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April 28, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”An immoral society betrays humanity because it betrays the basis for humanity, which is memory. An immoral society deals with memory as some politicians deal with politics. A moral society is committed to memory: I believe in memory. The Greek word alethia means Truth, Things that cannot be forgotten. I believe…
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April 27, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.” ― Marcus Aurelius BIRTHDAYS: 1623 Johann Adam Reincken, German organist and composer. Fuge g-moll, and “Ballett” in E Minor, and Sonata 1, first 4 movements, Pisendel movement 3, and Allemande in G, and Toccata in G 1759 Mary Wollstonecraft, British…
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