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THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The Jews are a peculiar people: Things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews. Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people, and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it. Poland and Czechoslovakia did it. Turkey threw out a million Greeks and Algeria a million Frenchmen. Indonesia…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do.” — Daniel C. Dennett BIRTHDAYS: 1733 Anton Filtz [Fils], German composer, born in Eichstätt, Electorate of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire. Trio in sol maggiore(allegro moderato, tempo…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to…

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: 1653 Benedict Schultheiss, German composer, born in the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg, Holy Roman…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.” — Hannah Arendt BIRTHDAYS: 1616 Jacques de Saint-Luc, Flemish composer and lutenist. Chaconne in D major 1705 Henri-Jacques de Croes, Flemish composer and violinist.…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.” — Samuel Johnson BIRTHDAYS: 1587 Francesca Caccini, Italian singer, composer (La liberazione di Ruggiero – widely believed to be oldest opera from a female composer), and teacher, born in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Chi desia,…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.” — Eric Hoffer BIRTHDAYS: 1677 Stephen Hales, English physiologist, chemist and inventor (first person to measure blood pressure). 1730 Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian military officer who played a leading role in the American Revolutionary War by reforming the Continental Army into a…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.” — Carl Gustav Jung BIRTHDAYS: 1098 Hildegard von Bingen, German Benedictine abbess and polymath active as a writer, composer, philosopher,…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.” — François de La Rochefoucauld BIRTHDAYS: 1254 Marco Polo, Venetian merchant, explorer and writer who travelled through Asia along the Silk Road between 1271 and 1295. 1572 Erasmus Widmann, German composer,…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency — the belief that the here and now is all there is.” — Allan Bloom BIRTHDAYS: 1737 Michael Haydn, Austrian composer. Christus factus est, and Violin Concerto in A-Dur, MH 207, and Aria di Amore…