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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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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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