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October 25, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.” — Thomas B. Macaulay BIRTHDAYS: 1576 Thomas Weelkes, English organist and composer of madrigals. Thule, the Period of Cosmography + The Andalusian Merchant, and O Lord Arise, and Most Mighty and…
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October 24, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don’t even remember leaving open.” — Rose Wilder Lane BIRTHDAYS: 1556 Giovanni Battista Caccini, Italian sculptor, born in Montopiaoli Val d’Arno, Duchy of Florence. 1607 John Lievens, Dutch painter, etcher and wood carver 1632 Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microbiologist and…
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October 23, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the…
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October 22, 2024
“Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most.” — Aesop BIRTHDAYS: 1698 Nicola Logroscino, Italian composer, born in Bitonto, Bari, Kingdom of Naples. ALLEGRO (III tempo) dal Concerto a cinque per Traversiere ed archi in sol magg. 1737 Vincenzo Manfredini, Italian harpsichordist, composer, and music theorist, born in…
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October 21, 2024
“I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.” — Thomas Sowell BIRTHDAYS: 1581 Domenichino [Domenico Zampieri], Italian Baroque painter. 1751 David Moritz Michael, Moravian conductor and composer, (Die Wasserfahrt -The Water Journey), born in Kühnhausen, Prussia.…
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October 20, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.” — Friedrich von Hayek BIRTHDAYS: 1435 Andrea Della Robbia,…
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October 19, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences.” — Robert G. Ingersoll BIRTHDAYS: 1931 John le Carré, English novelist (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold). MISCELLANEOUS: COULD THIS IN ANY WAY BE RELATED TO THEIR FORM OF GOVERNMENT? Island-wide blackout sweeps Cuba after power plant…
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October 18, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.” — H.L. Mencken BIRTHDAYS: 1634 Luca Giordano, Italian painter and printmaker, born in Naples, Kingdom of Naples, Spanish Empire. 1697 Giovanni Canaletto, Italian painter (Regatta on the Grand Canal) and…
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October 17, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.” — Colin Powell BIRTHDAYS: 1577 Cristofano Allori, Italian Mannerist…
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October 16, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” — Carl Sagan, Broca’s Brain BIRTHDAYS: 1622 Paul Puget, French artist. 1679 Jan Dismas Zelenka, Bohemian composer, born in Louňovice, Lands of the Bohemian Crown. Hypocondrie 1758 Noah Webster, American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and author. 1854 Oscar Wilde, Irish poet…
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