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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,…

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…

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…

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,…

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,…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.” ― Ron Paul BIRTHDAYS: 1632 Jean-Baptiste Lully, Italian-born French composer. Chaconne, and Le bourgeois gentilhomme – Suite, and Dance of the Sun King Le Roi Soleil King Louis XIV of France 1757 William Blake, English poet, painter,…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “If your goal is to never make a mistake in your life, you shouldn’t look for secrets. The prospect of being lonely but right—dedicating your life to something that no one else believes in—is already hard. The prospect of being lonely and wrong can be unbearable.” ― Peter Thiel BIRTHDAYS: 1544…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Let us not forget that the best morale booster for ourselves is to help to lift the morale of others.” ― Joost A.M. Meerloo BIRTHDAYS: 1640 Carl Rosier, Dutch baroque composer. Trio Sonata in Do minore 1653 Andreas Anton Schmelzer, Austrian composer. Sonata Die Türkenschlacht bei Wien 1683 1876 Willis Carrier,…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “DON’T HURT PEOPLE, AND don’t take their stuff. That’s it, in a nutshell. Everyone should be free to live their lives as they think best, free from meddling by politicians and government bureaucrats, as long as they don’t hurt other people, or take other people’s stuff.” ― Matt Kibbe BIRTHDAYS: 1752…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” ― Helen Keller BIRTHDAYS: 1632 Baruch Spinoza, Dutch rationalist philosopher 1690 Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German-American composer (son of Johann Pachelbel,…