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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…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.” — Cicero BIRTHDAYS: 106 AD Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman statesman, orator, lawyer, and philosopher active during the final decades of the Roman Republic. 1892 J. R. R. Tolkien, English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’” — Isaac Asimov BIRTHDAYS: 1732 František “Franz” Xaver Brixi, Czech classical composer and kapellmeister, born in Prague, Kingdom…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.” — Edmund Burke BIRTHDAYS: 1449 Lorenzo de’ Medici, Italian statesman, banker, and de facto ruler of the Republic of Florence from 1469 until his death, inheriting power at age twenty from his father Piero upon the latter’s death in 1469. 1628…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn’t possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: ‘Oh yes they could!’” — Vladimir Bukovsky BIRTHDAYS: 1514 Andreas Vesalius, Flemish anatomist, physician, and author widely regarded as the founder of modern human anatomy for his pioneering emphasis on empirical dissection of human…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who.” — Rudyard Kipling BIRTHDAYS: 1566 Alessandro Piccinini, Italian lutenist and composer, born in Bologna, Papal States. Toccata VII 1678 William Croft, British composer and organist.…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.” — Peter Drucker BIRTHDAYS: 1776 Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist and inventor (waterproof fabric). 1800 Charles Goodyear, American inventor renowned for developing the process of vulcanization, a method of treating rubber with sulfur and heat that transformed it from a…