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March 7, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future will reveal its merits.” ― Hannah Arendt BIRTHDAYS: 1574 John Wilbye, English madrigal composer. Draw on, Sweet Night, and Lady, Your Words do Spite…
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March 6, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn’t call it genius.” ― Michelangelo BIRTHDAYS: 1475 Michelangelo, Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. 1616 Malachias Siebenhaar, German composer. Ihr Kinder Israel 1710 Giuseppe Antonio Paganelli, Italian composer. Sonata in A minor (Baroque Cello, Portative Organ)…
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March 5, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”We must learn to suffer whatever we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of dischords as well as different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only some of them, what could he sing? He has got to…
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March 4, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”With very few exceptions, philosophers do not know much science and do not understand it, which is quite natural because science lies beyond the boundaries of typical philosophical subjects such as ethics, aestetics, and gnosiology. But while in the free countries philosophers are quite harmless, in the dictatorial countries they constitute…
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March 3, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.” ― Carl Gustav Jung BIRTHDAYS: 1840 Chief Joseph, leader of the wal-lam-wat-kain (Wallowa) band of Nez Perce, a Native American tribe of the interior Pacific Northwest region of the United States. 1847 Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born Canadian-American inventor, scientist and…
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March 2, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The individual, under socialism, instead of developing, becomes more and more like a bossed animal.” ― R.C. Hoiles BIRTHDAYS: 1824 Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer. The Moldau (14:40) 1859 Sholem Aleichem, Yiddish author and playwright (Fiddler on the Roof, Tevye the Dairyman) 1900 Kurt Weill, German-American composer and collaborator of Bertolt Brecht…
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March 1, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does…
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February 29, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.” ― Lysander Spooner BIRTHDAYS: 1692 John Byrom, English poet and the inventor of shorthand. 1792 Gioachino Rossini, Italian composer. La Gazza Ladra, and The Barber of Seville – Overture, and William Tell Overture 1840 John Philip Holland, Father…
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February 28, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”So this is where all the vapid talk about the ‘soul’ of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of reason and science have been discredited, the world will not pass into the hands of credulous herbivores who keep crystals by their sides and swoon over the poems of…
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February 27, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Representative government cannot express the will of the mass of the people, because there is no mass of the people; The People is a fiction, like The State. You cannot get a Will of the Mass, even among a dozen persons who all want to go on a picnic. The only…
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