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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present” — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations BIRTHDAYS: 1609 Artus Quellinus, Flemish sculptor. 1693 Jacobus Nozeman, Dutch composer and organist, born in Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire. Sonate…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “To love truth for truth’s sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.” — John Locke BIRTHDAYS: 1609 Sassoferrato [Giovanni B Salvi], Italian painter 1632 John Locke, English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of the…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.” — Goethe BIRTHDAYS: 1749 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “It could be that the climate alarmists have answers to rebut these critics and their data, but if so, they are not showing it. Rather than engaging in scientific debate, they have evaded it, choosing instead to try to stop dissenting publications and cut off the funding of their opponents. That…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.” — Albert Schweitzer BIRTHDAYS: 1673 Conrad Michael Schneider, German organist, kapellmeister, and composer, born in Ansbach,…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Words never fail. We hear them, we read them; they enter into the mind and become part of us for as long as we shall live. Who speaks reason to his fellowmen bestows it upon them. Who mouths inanity disorders thought for all who listen. There must be some minimum allowable…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” — Aristotle BIRTHDAYS: 1552 Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter, born in Bologna, Papal States. 1561 Bartholomeus Pitiscus, German mathematician (Trigonometry). 1591 Robert Herrick, 17th-century English lyric poet and Anglican cleric. 1579 John Amner, English…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.” — Aldous Huxley BIRTHDAYS: 1485 Beatus Rhenanus [Beatus Birt], German humanist, classical scholar and friend of Erasmus (Beatus Rhenanus Library). 1647 Denis Papin, French physicist, and inventor (steam piston engine; Papinian pot…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.” — Dorothy Parker BIRTHDAYS: 1485 Beatus Rhenanus [Beatus Birt], German humanist, classical scholar and friend of Erasmus (Beatus Rhenanus Library). 1647 Denis Papin, French physicist, and inventor (steam piston engine; Papinian pot (pressure cooker)…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The name was supposed to be ‘Googol,’ which is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeroes. It was before the Google spellchecker existed.” — Sergey Brin BIRTHDAYS: 1725 Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter. 1751 Johann Georg Witthauer, German composer, born in Neustadt near Coburg, Electorate of Bavaria, Holy Roman…