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THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.” — Alexander Pope BIRTHDAYS: 1589 William Bradford, English Puritan Separatist originally from the West Riding of Yorkshire in Northern England.…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The resentful man is a human with the capacity for affection so poorly developed that his understanding for the motives of others very nearly does not exist.” — Richard Condon, The Manchurian Candidate BIRTHDAYS: 1548 Cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter and poet. 1578 Adam Elsheimer, German painter, cartoonist and etcher. 1657…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed.” — William Gibson BIRTHDAYS: 1578 Francesco Albana, Italian painter. 1628 François Girardon, French sculptor. 1665 Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, French harpsichordist, organist, singer, and composer. Violin sonata n.1 d moll, and Prélude&Chaconne “L’Inconstante” 1685 Jean-Marc Nattier, French portrait…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “If men were angels, no government would be necessary.” — James Madison BIRTHDAYS: 1663 Nicolas Siret, French baroque composer and organist. Passacaille. 1751 James Madison, American statesman, diplomat, and Founding Father who served as the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817. Madison was popularly acclaimed as the…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.” — Ayn Rand BIRTHDAYS: 270 Saint Nicholas (Santa Claus), early Christian bishop of Greek descent from the maritime city of Patara in Anatolia (in modern-day Antalya Province, Turkey) during the time…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The difference between genius and mediocrity is that genius is always questioning.” — Albert Einstein BIRTHDAYS: 1692 Pieter Musschenbroek, Dutch mathematician and physician (Leyden jar). 1726 Joseph Anton Steffan [Josef Antonín Štěpán], Bohemian harpsichordist and composer, born in Kopidlno, Kingdom of Bohemia. Piano Concerto in E-fat major 1790 Ludwig Emil Grimm,…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Quality is not an act, it is a habit.” — Aristotle BIRTHDAYS: 1700 Michel Blavet, French composer. Sonata Nr. 4 in g minor “La Lumague” 1855 Percival Lowell, American businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars, and furthered theories of a ninth planet within…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.” — Lord Acton BIRTHDAYS: 1710 Thomas Arne, English composer. Rule Britannia 1788 Pierre-Jean David d’Angers], French sculptor. 1824 Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (spectroscopy, coined “black body” radiation), born in Königsberg, Kingdom of Prussia. 1835 Simon Newcomb, Canadian-American scientist, mathematician…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.” — Thomas Sowell BIRTHDAYS: 1811 Urbain Jean Joseph le Verrier, French astronomer (made calculations that proved existence of Neptune) 1903 James Franklin Hyde, American chemist and inventor. He…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even specially, the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities.” — Allan Bloom BIRTHDAYS: 1844…