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January 8, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?” — Stephen Hawking BIRTHDAYS: 1668 Jean Gilles, French composer. Messe des Morts. 1804 George Childress, lawyer, politician, and a principal author of the Texas Declaration of Independence. 1823 Alfred Russel Wallace, English naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, biologist and illustrator.…
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January 7, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “But let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then tell me how much of what I earn belongs to you – and why?” — Walter E. Williams BIRTHDAYS: 1634 Adam Krieger, German organist and…
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January 6, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Never ruin an apology with an excuse.” — Benjamin Franklin BIRTHDAYS: 1745 Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, French inventor and pioneer balloonist (Montgolfière-style hot air balloon) 1822 Heinrich Schliemann, German businessman and an influential amateur archaeologist. 1838 Max Bruch, German composer. Romanze Op. 85 1832 Gustave Doré, French painter and sculptor 1872 Alexander Scriabin,…
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January 4, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.” — Milton Friedman BIRTHDAYS: 1710 Giovanni Battista Pergolesi [Draghi], Italian Baroque organist, composerborn in Jesi, Papal States. Tre giorni son che Nina, and Stabat Mater Dolorosa 1717 Antonio Maria Mazzoni,…
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January 5, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.” — Aldous Huxley BIRTHDAYS: 1560 William Cobbold, British organist and composer.New Fashions 1596 Henry Lawes, English composer. About the Sweet Bag of the Bee, and The Angler’s Song 1667 Antonio Lotti, Italian…
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January 3, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;Refusing to set aside trivial preferences.Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;Attempting to compel others to believe and…
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January 2, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “People think of education as something they can finish.” — Isaac Asimov BIRTHDAYS: 1732 František “Franz” Xaver Brixi, Czech classical composer and kapellmeister, born in Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia. Pastores, and Pastorella in C für Orgel. 1777 Christian Daniel Rauch, German sculptor (Frederick II of Prussia equestrian statue), born in Arolsen,…
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January 1, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.” — Edmund Burke BIRTHDAYS: 1449 Lorenzo de’ Medici, talian statesman, the de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic, and the most powerful patron of Renaissance culture in Italy. 1628 Christoph Bernhard, German Baroque composer…
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December 31, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Socialists ignore the side of man that is the spirit. They can provide you shelter, fill your belly with bacon and beans, treat you when you’re ill, all the things guaranteed to a prisoner or a slave. They don’t understand that we also dream.” — Ronald Reagan BIRTHDAYS: 1573 Giulio Cesare…
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December 30, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “We’ve gotta become the Martians. I’m a Martian – I tell you to become Martians. And we’ve gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance…
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