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”A minute’s success pays the failure of years.” — Robert Browning BIRTHDAYS: 1711 David Hume, Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist who was best known for his highly influential system of empiricism, philosophical scepticism and metaphysical naturalism. 1748 Olympe de Gouges, French playwright and political activist. She is best known for her Declaration of the…

”The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but… what we ought to avoid.” — Jose Ortega y Gasset BIRTHDAYS: 1581 Frans Francken the Younger, Flemish painter 1606 Lorenzo Lippi [Perlone Zipoli], Italian poet and painter, born in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany. 1856 Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist and the founder of…

”For somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends.” — Aeschylus BIRTHDAYS: 1657 Jacques Danican Philidor, French oboist and composer. La bourrée d’Avignon, and March for Two Pair of Kettledrums, and Marche de Timbales – le Cadet 1680 Giuseppe Porsile, Neapolitan composer, born in Naples, Kingdom of Naples, Spanish Empire. Posa sopra d`un faggio…

”No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.” — H. G. Wells BIRTHDAYS: 1655 Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian instrument maker – considered the inventor of the piano, born in Padua, Republic of Venice. 1904 Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer, songwriter, and film actress active from the 1920s to the 1970s.…

”A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.” — Buckminster Fuller BIRTHDAYS: 1649 Johann Valentin Meder, German composer, born in Free Imperial City of Erfurt, Holy Roman Empire. Cantata Singet, lobsinget mit Hertzen und Zungen, and Ciaconne, and Jubilate Deo omnis terra MISCELLANEOUS: ATTENTION STARGAZERS. This Week’s Sky at…

”When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.” — Frédéric Bastiat BIRTHDAYS: 1660 Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian baroque composer (Tigrane), born in Palermo, Sicily, Viceroyalty of the…

”How inappropriate to call this planet “Earth,” when it is clearly ‘Ocean.’” — Arthur C. Clarke BIRTHDAYS: 1582 Marco da Gagliano, Italian opera composer, born in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany. “Per la gloriosissima Vergine”, and “La Dafne” Apollo’s first scene 1855 Cecilia Beaux, American portrait painter. 1874 Romaine Brooks [Beatrice Romaine Goddard], American painter.…

”The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn. The less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything…” — Robert G. Ingersoll BIRTHDAYS: 1777 Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, geodesist, and physicist, who contributed to many fields in mathematics and science, and has been called “the…

”Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.” — Frederick Douglas BIRTHDAYS: 1636 Esaias Reusner, German lutenist and composer. Allemanda a-moll ze zbioru Neue Lauten-Früchte. 1863 William Randolph Hearst, American newspaper publisher and politician who developed…

”A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.” — Karl Kraus BIRTHDAYS: 1874 Karl Kraus, Austrian writer and journalist, known as a satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright and poet. He directed his satire at the press, German culture, and German and Austrian politics. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize…