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October 17, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man.” — Walter E. Williams BIRTHDAYS: 1577 Cristofano Allori, Italian Mannerist painter (Judith), born in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany. 1688 Domenico…
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October 16, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.” — Oscar Wilde BIRTHDAYS: 1679 Jan Dismas Zelenka, Bohemian composer, born in Louňovice, Lands of the Bohemian Crown. Adagio ma non troppo from Sonata ZWV 181:1 1758 Noah Webster, American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and author.…
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October 15, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.” — Yakov Smirnoff BIRTHDAYS: 70 BC Virgil, an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He composed three of…
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October 14, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.” — Friedrich Nietzsche BIRTHDAYS: 1644 William Penn, English writer, theologian, religious thinker, and influential Quaker who founded the Province of Pennsylvania during the British colonial era.…
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October 13, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: ‘But what would you replace it with?’ When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with?” — Thomas Sowell BIRTHDAYS: 1474 Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian painter 1652 Johann Heinrich Kittel, German composer.…
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October 12, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.” — Francis Bacon BIRTHDAYS: 1686 Silvius Leopold Weiss, German composer and lutenist. Courante in F-Major, and Fantasia 1742 Johann Peter Melchior, German sculptor. 1860 Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American entrepreneur and inventor (gyrocompass). 1935 Luciano Pavarotti,…
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October 11, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.” — Carl Gustav Jung BIRTHDAYS: 1747 Marian Paradeiser, Austrian composer. Sicilienne 1821 George Williams, English philanthropist, businessman and founder of the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA). The oldest and largest youth charity in the world, its aim is to support…
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October 10, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “A world without love would be no world.” — Goethe BIRTHDAYS: 1684 Jean-Antoine Watteau, French Rococo painter. 1731 Henry Cavendish, England, physicist and chemist (discovered hydrogen). 1738 Benjamin West, Anglo-American painter. 1813 Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer best known for his operas. Nabucco – Hebrew Slaves Chorus, and Triumphal March from Aida,…
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October 9, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “There is in the garden a plant which one ought to leave dry, although most people water it. It is the weed called Envy.” — Cosimo de’ Medici BIRTHDAYS: 1585 Heinrich Schütz, German Baroque organist and composer, baptized in Köstritz, Imperial County of Reuss, Holy Roman Empire. Nicht uns, Herr, and…
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October 8, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even specially, the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities.” — Allan Bloom BIRTHDAYS: 1551…
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