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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.” ― Nikola Tesla BIRTHDAYS: 1565 Marie de Gournay, French writer and editor of Montaigne 1846 George Westinghouse, American inventor, engineer, and…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “When you’re cold, don’t expect sympathy from someone who’s warm.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn BIRTHDAYS: 1590 Johann Schop, German composer and violinist. Pavan in F Major 1712 Francesco Guardi, Italian painter (Venetian view painting) 1713 Denis Diderot, French philosopher, art critic, playwright, and encyclopedist whose editorial leadership of the Encyclopédie embodied the…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.” ― Honore de Balzac BIRTHDAYS: 1515 Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter 1528 Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer. In Passione positus Iesus 1657 Francesco Solimena, Italian painter 1720 Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian etcher 1861…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Anger is the prelude to courage.” ― Eric Hoffer BIRTHDAYS: 1631 Sebastian Anton Scherer, composer. “Offertory G-dur” 1713 Antoine Dauvergne, composer. La Coquette trompée 1803 John Gorrie, inventor (mechanical refrigeration / ice machine) 1830 George Brayton, inventor (early commercial internal-combustion engine) 1848 Henry Lerolle, painter 1916 James Herriot, author MISCELLANEOUS: NEXT:…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The essence of real creativity is a certain playfulness, a flitting from idea to idea without getting bogged down by fixated demands. Of course, you don’t always get what you thought you were asking for.” ― Vernor Vinge BIRTHDAYS: 1704 František Tůma, Czech composer. Stabat Mater 1866 Charles Ricketts, British artist…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “One person of integrity can make a difference.” ― Elie Wiesel BIRTHDAYS: 1541 El Greco (Doménikos Theotokópoulos), painter, sculptor, and architect. 1652 Madame d’Aulnoy (Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville), author; coined the term “fairy tales”. 1865 Paul Dukas, composer (The Sorcerer’s Apprentice). The Sorcerer’s Apprentice 1881 William Boeing, aviation pioneer and…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” ― Rumi BIRTHDAYS: 1207 Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian poet, scholar, and mystic 1550 Michael Maestlin, German astronomer and mathematician (teacher of Johannes Kepler) 1622 Johann Sebastiani, German Baroque composer. Matthäuspassion…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.” ― Ludwig von Mises BIRTHDAYS: 1518 Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti), Italian Mannerist painter 1547 Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author and novelist (Don Quixote) 1571 Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi), Italian painter (birthdate disputed) 1640…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “If concepts are not clear, words do not fit. If words do not fit, the day’s workcannot be accomplished, morals and arts do not flourish. If morals and arts donot flourish, punishments are not just. If punishments are not just, the people do not know where to put hand or foot.”―…

THOUGHT FOR 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: 1389 Cosimo…