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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” — Will Durant BIRTHDAYS: 1761 Yevstigney…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “We need to have a talk on the subject of what’s yours and what’s mine.” — Stieg Larsson BIRTHDAYS: 1725 Ferdinando Bertoni, Italian composer, born in Salò, Lombardy, Republic of Venice. Addio, addio, o miel sospiri from Tancredi, and Quartet 1736 Johann Christoph Kellner, German organist and composer, born in Gräfenroda,…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.” — Baruch Spinoza BIRTHDAYS: 1675 Johann Georg Christian Störl, composer, born in Kirchberg an der Jagst, Duchy of Württemberg, Holy Roman Empire. Sonata 26, Ars Perpetuum 1714 Claude-Joseph Vernet, French…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.” — Ambrose Bierce BIRTHDAYS: 1422 William Caxton, English merchant, diplomat and writer. He is thought to be the first person to introduce a printing press into England in 1476, and as a printer to be the first…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The first requirement of a scientist is to be curious. He must be capable of being astonished and eager to find out.” — Erwin Schrödinger BIRTHDAYS: 1626 Giovanni Legrenzi, Venetian Baroque organist and composer, born in Clusone, Republic of Venice. Il mio core non è con me, and Balletto secondo a…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences.” — Robert G. Ingersoll BIRTHDAYS: 1748 Joseph Schuster, German composer, born in Dresden, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire. Seven Variations for Two Harpsichords 1833 Robert G. Ingersoll, American writer, orator and agnostic. MISCELLANEOUS: I WANT ONE. Figure AI…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” — Plutarch BIRTHDAYS: 1560 Hieronymus Praetorius, German choral composer, born in Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire. excerpt from Praetorius’ Seventh “Magnificat”, and Tota pulchra es, and Kyrie (Missa Tulerunt Dominum meum), and „Magnificat Primi Toni, Versus discanto”…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “‘Cultural appropriation’ is such a stupid concept. Particularly amongst people who claim to like diversity and the mixing of cultures.” — Zuby BIRTHDAYS: 1593 Izaak Walton, English biographer and author (The Compleat Angler). 1631 John Dryden, English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who in 1668 was appointed England’s first Poet…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “People who pride themselves on their ‘complexity’ and deride others for being “simplistic” should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.” — Thomas Sowell BIRTHDAYS: 1571 John Ward, English composer. If heav’n’s just wrath, and Come Sable Night 1646 Godfrey Kneller, German-British…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe BIRTHDAYS: 1783 John Heathcoat,…