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April 26, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.” ― Richard Mitchell BIRTHDAYS: 121 Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor from 161 to 180 and a Stoic philosopher. 1538 Gian…
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April 25, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Tolerating the distortion of history is the first step toward tolerating humiliation in real life.” ― Ai Weiwei BIRTHDAYS: 1677 Guillaume Coustou Sr, French sculptor 1690 Gottlieb Theophil Muffat, German composer. Fugue in g minor, and Toccata prima, and Passacaglia 1730 Fedele Fenaroli, Italian composer. Partimento: Book IV, No. 30 in…
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April 24, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Monopolies are bad because people get bad service for high prices. Competition is good because people get good service for competitive prices.” ― Timothy C. Draper BIRTHDAYS: 1670 Christian Ludwig Boxberg, German composer. Machet die Tore weit. 1706 Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian Conventual Franciscan friar and composer. Partimento in B minor,…
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April 23, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”It’s illegal to forcefully take money from people unless you’re the government. It’s illegal to take someone’s liberty, unless you’re the government. It’s illegal to kill someone, unless you’re the government. Private organizations can do everything that government can do except for legally break the law.” ― J.S.B. Morse BIRTHDAYS: 1564…
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April 22, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.” ― Daniel Hannan BIRTHDAYS: 1658 Giuseppe Torelli, Italian composer. Concerto in D Major, and Violin Concerto Op.8 No.6, and Violin Concerto Op.8, No.8 1682 Willem Ignatius Kerricx, Flemish architect, sculptor and painter. MISCELLANY: FURTHER PROOF…
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April 21, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Never let a bad day go to waste.” ― Scott Adams BIRTHDAYS: 1555 Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter. 1672 Johann Philipp Käfer, German composer. Suite ‘Musicalische Battaille’ 1806 Peter van Schendel, Dutch-Belgian painter. 1816 Charlotte Brontë, English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and…
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April 20, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.” ― Marcus Aurelius BIRTHDAYS: 1745 Philippe Pinel, French physician, precursor of psychiatry and incidentally a zoologist. He was instrumental in the development of a…
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April 19, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.” But “there is also an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents…. The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and the…
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April 18, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? – Who will watch the watchers?” ― Juvenal BIRTHDAYS: 1605 Giacomo Carissimi, Italian organist, choral director, composer (Jephta), and priest. Dixit Dominus, and Rimante in pace 1819 Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer. Cavalleria Leggera, Ouverture. 1852 George Clausen, English painter. 1907 Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian-American classical and film…
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April 17, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”If you require force to promote your ideal, there is something wrong with your ideal.” ― JSB Morse BIRTHDAYS: 1539 Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter. 1568 Christophe Thomas Walliser, French composer. Cum natus esset Jesu 1587 Ivan Lukačić, Croatian composer. Cantabo Domino, Sacrae Cantiones 1683 Johann David Heinichen, German Baroque composer and…
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