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THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The moral tragedy that has befallen Americans is our belief that it is okay for government to forcibly use one American to serve the purposes of another—that in my book is a working definition of slavery.” ― Walter E. Williams BIRTHDAYS: 1574 Giovanni Battista Stefanini, Italian organist, maestro di cappella, and…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.” ― Robert A. Heinlein BIRTHDAYS: 1690 Johann Tobias Krebs, German organist and composer, born in Heichelheim, Duchy of Saxe-Weimar. Präludium und Fuge in C 1860 Gustav Mahler, Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?” ― Cicero BIRTHDAYS: 1638 Gerrit Berckheyde, Dutch painter. 1678 Nicola Francesco Haym,…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.” ― Jean Cocteau BIRTHDAYS: 1654 Antonio Maria Pacchioni, Baroque composer, known for his polyphonic church music. Dixit Dominus 1810 P. T. Barnum, American showman, businessman and politician remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and founding the Ringling…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘Press On!’…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.” ― Alfred Korzybski BIRTHDAYS: 1550 Jakob Handl [Petelin], German-Austrian composer (Opus musicum), and Cistercian monk, born in Reifnitz, Carniola. Canite tuba in Sion, and Ecce quomodo moritur iustus 1643 Alessandro Stradella,…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.” ― G. K. Chesterton 1581 Johann Staden, German baroque organist and composer, baptized in Free Imperial City of Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire. Toccata. MISCELLANY: HARSH BUT FAIR. The Surgeon General Aims…

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…