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January 27, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Have you noticed how often it happens that a really good idea — the kind of idea that looks, as it approaches, like the explanation for everything about everything — tends to hover near at hand when you are thinking hard about something quite different? There you are, halfway into a…
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January 26, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Most of us turn to religion for our ethics because we don’t know where else to find them.” ― Elie Wiesel BIRTHDAYS: 1708 William Hayes, British composer and organist. Harpsichord concerto in G-major. 1786 Benjamin Haydon, British painter. 1877 Kees van Dongen, Dutch-French painter 1884 Roy Chapman Andrews, American scientist and…
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January 25, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “He is a master at changing the subject. It is worse than criminal for us to get ourselves involved in endless, pointless, and inevitably vituperative arguments with men who are less concerned with truth, social good, and real problems than they are with gaining unlimited attention and power for themselves.” ―…
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January 24, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Be as decent as you can. Don’t believe without evidence. Treat things divine with marked respect — don’t have anything to do with them. Do not trust humanity without collateral security; it will play you some scurvy trick. Remember that it hurts no one to be treated as an enemy entitled…
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January 23, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Like many works of literature, Hollywood chooses for its villains people who strive for social dominance through the pursuit of wealth, prestige, and power. But the ordinary business of capitalism is much more egalitarian: It’s about finding meaning and enjoyment in work and production.” ― Alex Tabarrok BIRTHDAYS: 1737 John Hancock,…
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January 22, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Belief is a poor substitute for certain knowledge.” ― Fred Hoyle BIRTHDAYS: 1561 Francis Bacon, “English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and author. He is widely regarded as the father of empiricism…” 1709 Joseph Riepel, Austrian-born German composer. Konzert in D-Dur, 1. Satz 1788 Lord Byron, English poet and peer. 1891…
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January 21, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Our planet is not fragile at its own timescale and we, pitiful latecomers in the last microsecond of our planetary year, are stewards of nothing in the long run.” ― Stephen Jay Gould BIRTHDAYS: 1659 Adriaen van der Werff, Dutch painter, engraver and architect 1743 John Fitch, American inventor. 1751 Josephus…
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January 20, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.” ― Auguste Comte BIRTHDAYS: 1586 Johann Hermann Schein, German composer. Allemande, and Galliard from Suite X [a5], and Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her, and Tripla -Wenn ich durch ach mein Liebesqual (21:49), and Suite n. 1 e n.…
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January 19, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: The Three Laws of Robotics The First Law: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.The Second Law: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.The Third…
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January 18, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The political liberty, of the subject, (separation of powers), is a tranquility of mind arising from the opinion each person has of [their] safety. In order to have this liberty. It is requisite the government be so constituted as one [person] need not to be afraid of another.” ― Montesquieu BIRTHDAYS:…
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