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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…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” ― H.L. Mencken BIRTHDAYS: 1732 Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, composer and 5th son of Johann Sebastian Bach. Sinfonia…

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: ”The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.” ― Elbert Hubbard BIRTHDAYS: 1623 Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer. 1708 Johann Gottlieb Janitsch, German Baroque composer, born in Schweidnitz, Silesia. Sonata in G minor, and Sonata da Camera in D-major “Echo”,…