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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.” — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton BIRTHDAYS: 1653 Georg Muffat, Baroque composer. Violin Sonata 1755 Frederigo Fiorillo, Italian violist, mandolinist, and composer. Etude No. 32 1769 Józef Elsner, Polish composer and teacher of Chopin. Ouverture…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanction of political authority is not necessary for its existence. Certain commodities came to be money quite naturally, as the result of economic relationships that were independent of the power of the…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Back in my old neighborhood, there was a special contempt for the kind of guy who was always trying to get two other guys to fight each other. Today, it is considered a great contribution to society to incite consumers against producers, tenants against landlords, women against men, and the races…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.” — G.K. Chesterton BIRTHDAYS: 1741 Johann Gottfried Krebs, German composer. Fuga in g, and Chorale Prelude Ach Gott, and Prelude and Fugue in C Major, and Trio Es-dur 1781 John Walker, English inventor and chemist (friction match). 1860 Isaac Albéniz, Spanish pianist, conductor,…

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: 1779 Thomas Moore, Irish poet and musician. 1830: Carl Filtsch, Transylvanian child piano prodigy and composer. Fantasie dramatique, and Konzertstück 1853 Carl…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The innovative process is a fragile one, dependent on a complex, often messy interplay of imagination, competition, and exchange. Curbing new ideas hurts not only individual creators but the audience for which they create and the posterity that inherits their legacy.” — Virginia Postrel BIRTHDAYS: 1591 Dirck Janszoon Sweelinck, Dutch composer,…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Comedy brings religious persecutors, dictators, and tyrants to their knees faster than any other weapon.” — Mel Brooks BIRTHDAYS: 1265 Dante Alighieri, an Italian poet, philosopher, and political figure renowned for his epic poem the Divina Commedia (Divine Comedy), an allegorical narrative of the soul’s journey through Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso,…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson BIRTHDAYS: 1494 Jacopo da Pontormo (Italian painter,…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “An eighteen year old boy is carried into the shock ward and he looks up at me trustingly asking, ‘How am I doing, nurse?’ I just kiss his forehead and say, ‘You are doing just fine soldier.’ He smiles sweetly and says, ‘I was just checking.’ Then he dies. We all…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “If the names are unknown knowledge of the things also perishes.” — Carl Linnaeus BIRTHDAYS: 1707 Carl Linnaeus, Swedish botanist, explorer, and the Father of Taxonomy 1710 François Gaspard Adam, French sculptor. 1741 Andrea Lucchesi, Italian organist and composer. Sonata I in Do (C maj) 1754 Andrea Appiani, Italian royal painter.…