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December 28, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.” ― Mortimer J. Adler BIRTHDAYS: 1651 Johann Krieger, German organist and composer. Chaconne in g-Moll 1865 Félix Vallotton, Swiss-French painter and writer…
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December 27, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “When ships to sail the void between the stars have been built, there will step forth men to sail these ships.” ― Johannes Kepler BIRTHDAYS: 1571 Johannes Kepler, German astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, natural philosopher and writer on music. 1773 George Cayley, English inventor who founded science of aerodynamics 1802 Thomas Fearnley, Norwegian…
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December 26, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.” ― Carl Gustav Jung BIRTHDAYS: 1633 Charles Emmanuel Biset, Flemish painter 1716 Thomas Gray, English poet. 1791 Charles Babbage, English polymath. A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage originated the concept of a digital programmable computer. 1808 Albert Grisar,…
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December 25, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “If I have seen further then others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.” ― Isaac Newton BIRTHDAYS: 1583 Orlando Gibbons, English composer. Pavane, and Drop, Drop, Slow Tears, and The Silver Swan, and Fancy for six viols 1628 Noel Coypel, French painter 1642 Isaac Newton, English…
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December 24, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong…
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December 23, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “As hatred is defined as intense dislike, what is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion, if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked?”― Rowan Atkinson BIRTHDAYS: 245 Zenobia, third-century queen of the Palmyrene…
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December 22, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.”― Thomas Sowell BIRTHDAYS: 1400 Luca della Robbia, Italian sculptor 1639 Jean Racine, French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille. 1702 Jean-Étienne…
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December 21, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.”― Isaac Asimov BIRTHDAYS: 1401 Tommaso Masaccio, Italian painter 1616 Pietro Andrea Ziani, Italian organist and composer. Sonata VII and 3 in D, and Sonata XVIII 1815 Thomas Couture, French history painter & teacher 1922 Paul Winchell (Wilchinsky), American ventriloquist (Jerry…
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December 20, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The continual intrusion into our minds of the hammering noises of arguments and propaganda can lead to two kinds of reactions. It may lead to apathy and indifference, the I-don’t-care reaction, or to a more intensified desire to study and to understand. Unfortunately, the first reaction is the more popular one.”―…
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December 19, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The chief deficiency I see in the skeptical movement is its polarization: Us vs. Them — the sense that we have a monopoly on the truth; that those other people who believe in all these stupid doctrines are morons; that if you’re sensible, you’ll listen to us; and if not, to…
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