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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The secret to happiness is freedom… And the secret to freedom is courage.” — Thucydides BIRTHDAYS: 1683 Johann Christoph Graupner, German harpsichordist and Baroque composer, born in Hartmannsdorf, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire. O Welt sieh hier dein Leben 1690 Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, German composer and librettist, born in Grünstädtel,…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “You only have power over people as long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power—he’s free again.” — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn BIRTHDAYS: 1591 Jusepe de Ribera, Spanish painter and printmaker nicknamed “Lo Spagnoletto / the Little…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.” — Henry David Thoreau BIRTHDAYS: 1503 Parmigianino, Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker active in Florence, Rome, Bologna, and his native city of Parma. 1853 Georgios Jakobides, Greek painter, founded National Gallery of Athens. 1870 Alexander Stirling Calder, American sculptor.…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.” — George Washington Carver BIRTHDAYS: 1683 Gasparo Visconti, Italian composer and violinist, born in Cremona, Duchy of Milan, Holy Roman Empire. Sonata in sol minore op. I…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Libraries raised me.” — Ray Bradbury BIRTHDAYS: 1620 Johann Weichmann, German organist, and sacred and secular music composer (Sorgen-Lägerin), born in Wolgast, Pomerania. Rede eines verstorbenen Jünglings aus dem Grabe. 1658 Nicolas Coustou, French sculptor. 1674 Reinhard Keiser, German opera conductor and composer, chiefly of operas and oratorios (Almira; Lukas-Passion), born…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.” — Robert G. Ingersoll BIRTHDAYS: 1822 Carlo Alfredo Piatti, Italian composer, born in Bergamo, Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia. Austrian Empire. Serenata for 2 Cellos and Piano 1824 Wilkie Collins, English writer (Woman in White). 1836 Lawrence Alma…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “By the age of 70, he who doesn’t read will have lived only one life. He who reads will have lived 5000 years. Reading is immortality backwards.” — Umberto Eco BIRTHDAYS: 1634 Adam Krieger, German organist and composer, born in Driesen, Brandenburg-Prussia. Komm Galathea, komm mein Herze, and Nun sich der…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.” — Khalil Gibran BIRTHDAYS: 1695 Giuseppe Sammartini, Italian oboe virtuoso and late Baroque/early classical composer who served the court of the…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “A science only advances with certainty, when the plan of inquiry and the object of our researches have been clearly defined; otherwise a small number of truths are loosely laid hold of, without their connexion being perceived, and numerous errors, without being enabled to detect their fallacy.” — Jean-Baptiste Say BIRTHDAYS:…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay…