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December 8, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.” ― Thomas Sowell BIRTHDAYS: 65 BC Horace, the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). 1724 Claude-Bénigne Balbastre, French organist,…
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December 7, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy…What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.” ― Adam Smith…
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December 6, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselves in order to strengthen our character and increase our intelligence.” ― H.G. Wells BIRTHDAYS: 1550 Orazio…
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December 5, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” ― Abraham Lincoln BIRTHDAYS: 1901 Werner Heisenberg, Theoretical Physicist and Pioneer of Quantum Mechanics 1848 Edwin Blashfield, American painter 1869 Ellis Parker Butler, American author (Pigs is Pigs) 1890 Fritz Lang, Austrian-German-American filmmaker and screenwriter (Metropolis) 1895…
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December 4, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.” ― Thomas Carlyle BIRTHDAYS: 1660 Andre Campra, French composer. Marche du triomphe from Tancrède, and Tanz aus Hesione Aimable vainqueur, and Symphonie and Air des Graces from Hésione, Suite I 1667 Michel Pignolet de Monteclair,…
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December 3, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Learn as much by writing as by reading.” ― Lord Acton BIRTHDAYS: 1616 John Wallis, English clergyman and mathematician, who is given partial credit for the development of infinitesimal calculus. 1729 Antonio Soler, Spanish Catalan composer. Fandango L’Arpeggiata 1752 Georg Friederich Fuchs, German composer. Trío No.1 (II- Minuetto) 1755 Gilbert Stuart,…
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December 2, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Values, beliefs, and character are what constitute identity, not race, which is a neutral characteristic that reveals nothing about the core content of a person’s moral agency.” ― Jason D. Hill BIRTHDAYS: 1578 Agostino Agazzari, Italian composer. Beata es Virgo Maria 1906 Peter Carl Goldmark, Hungarian-American engineer who, during his time…
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December 1, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “There is divine beauty in learning… To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and…
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November 30, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content.” ― Émile Zola BIRTHDAYS: 1667 Jonathan Swift, Author, Poet and Satirist 1796 Carl Loewe, German composer. Ballade. 1835 Mark Twain, American writer, humorist, essayist, entrepreneur,…
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November 29, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.” ― Groucho Marx BIRTHDAYS: 1797 Domenico Gaetano Donizetti, Italian opera composer. Lucia’s cavatina from Lucia di Lammermoor, and Una Furtiva Lagrima 1803 Christian Doppler, Austrian mathematician and physicist. 1849 John Ambrose Fleming,…
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