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December 29, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “You say, “There are men who have no money,” and you apply the law. But the law is not a self-supplied fountain, whence every stream may obtain supplies independtly of society. Nothing can enter the public treasury, in favor of one citizen or one class, but what other citizens and other…
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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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