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THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.” ― Thomas Sowell 1586 Claudio Saracini, Italian composer, born in Siena, Grand Duchy of Tuscany. le Seste musiche…

Happy Birthday Thomas Sowell. THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.” ― Isaac Asimov 1671 Teodorico Pedrini, also known as De Lige, Italian Vincentian priest, musician, composer, and missionary at the imperial court of China (1711-46), born in Fermo, Marche, Papal States. Sonata nº 1,…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Most of us can’t rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven’t time, money or that many friends. The things you’re looking for… are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.” ― Thomas Jefferson BIRTHDAYS: 1547 Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian composer. Sinfonia…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”I don’t want to believe. I want to know.” ― Carl Sagan BIRTHDAYS: 1615 Johann Paul Schor, Austrian artist. 1789 Philipp Friedrich Silcher, German composer. Serenade an Selma, and Sanctus 1850 Lafcadio Hearn, American author. 1872 Paul Laurence Dunbar, American poet, novelist, and short story writer of the late 19th and…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” ― George Orwell BIRTHDAYS: 1582 Johannes Schultz, German composer, born in Lüneburg, Hanseatic League. Resonet in Laudibus 1730 Charles Messier,  French astronomer. He published an astronomical catalogue consisting of 110 nebulae…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.” ― Henry David Thoreau BIRTHDAYS: 1709 Francesco Araja, Italian composer, born in Naples, Kingdom of Naples. Cephalus and Prokris,…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Debt is an ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.” ― Ambrose Bierce BIRTHDAYS: 1788 Thomas Blanchard, American machinist and inventor. 1842 Ambrose Bierce, American short story writer, journalist, poet, and American Civil War veteran. 1865 Robert Henri, American painter. 1901 Harry Partch, American composer. And on the…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”A bad system will beat a good person every time.” ― W. Edwards Deming BIRTHDAYS: 1540 Johann Baptista Serranus, German singer and composer, Born in Lehrberg bei Ansbach, Duchy of Bavaria. Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein EG 366, and Von dir o Vater nimmt mein Herz, and Wenn wir in…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The craving for power is in itself a sign of inferior abilities and unfitness for responsibility.” ― Isabel Paterson BIRTHDAYS: 1611 Pablo Bruna, Spanish blind composer. Tiento, and Tiento de medio registro de tiple de primer tono 1613 Lambert Pietkin, Flemish baroque composer, born in Liège, Holy Roman Empire. Alma redemptoris…