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THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.” — Booker T. Washington BIRTHDAYS: 1663 Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, German musician and composer (Georg Frideric Handel’s master), baptized in Leipzig, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire. dich loben alle wir (LV…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”In other centuries, human beings wanted to be saved, or improved, or freed, or educated. But in our century, they want to be entertained. The great fear is not of disease or death, but of boredom. A sense of time on our hands, a sense of nothing to do. A sense…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.” — Richard Mitchell BIRTHDAYS: 1676 Giovanni Antonio Pollarolo, Italian composer. La Foza della Virtu – Aria Vuol Amor. 1815…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn’t roar?” — Friedrich Schiller BIRTHDAYS: 1493 Paracelsus, Swiss physician, alchemist, lay theologian, and philosopher of the German Renaissance. 1688 Lorenzo Somis, Italian composer and violinist. Sonata in sol maggiore, and Sinfonia n° 1 in Do maggiore 1821 Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist,…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”You do not become a ”dissident” just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken.…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”To know that you do not know is the best.To think you know when you do not is a disease.Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it” — Lao Tzu BIRTHDAYS: 1491 Teofilo Folengo, Italian macaronic poet. 1592 Domenico Mazzocchi, Italian Baroque composer, born in Civita Castellana,…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.” — Abraham Lincoln BIRTHDAYS: 1566 Julien Perrichon, French composer and lutenist of the late Renaissance.. Courante. 1753 Jean-Baptiste…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” — Plato BIRTHDAYS: 1666 Attilio Ariosti, Italian baroque composer (Court of Kingdom of Prussia, 1697-1703), viola d’amore player, and harpsichordist, born in Bologna, Papal States. Viola d’amore Sonata no.18 in d minor 1885 Will Durant, American historian and philosopher, best…