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THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”How are we to live in an atomic age?” Lewis asks. “I am tempted to reply: ‘Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land and…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Any human endeavor rooted in the pursuit of truth must rely on fact and not feelings.” ― Gad Saad BIRTHDAYS: 1830 Carl Filtsch, Transylvanian child piano prodigy, and composer. Adieu. 1840 Hans Makart, Austrian painter 1841 Giovanni Sgambati, Italian pianist and composer. Gondoliera. 1853 Carl Larsson, Swedish painter 1858 Carl Richard…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”My definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree?…how much of what I earn belongs to you–and why?” ― Walter Williams BIRTHDAYS: 1799 Fromental Halévy, French composer. Le voici donc enfin l’instant de la vengeance 1837 Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Liberty is the essential basis, the sine qua non, of morality. Morality can only exist in a free society, it can exist to the extent freedom exists.” ― Henry Hazlitt BIRTHDAYS: 1098 Hildegard von Bingen, German Benedictine abbess and polymath active as a writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, and as a…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson BIRTHDAYS: 1494 Pontormo, Italian Mannerist painter and…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there’s no place for it in the endeavor of science. We do not know beforehand where fundamental insights will arise from about our mysterious and lovely solar system. The…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Home is not where you live, but where they understand you.” ― Christian Morgenstern BIRTHDAYS: 1620 Pieter Neefs, the Younger, Flemish painter (church interiors). 1696 Johann Caspar Vogler, German composer and organist. Machs mit mir, Gott, nach deiner Gut, and Jesu Leiden, Pein und Tod 1707 Carl Linnaeus, Swedish biologist and physician…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Whatever you do, don’t doubt yourself because of others. That’s the only thing I want to impress upon you, as strongly as I can.” ― Ayn Rand BIRTHDAYS: 1759 Gervais-François Couperin, French organist and composer. Andante (from Sonata Op.1 nº1), and Benedictus de la Messe à L’usage des Paroisses à l’orgue…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”A little learning is a dangerous thing.Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring;There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,and drinking largely sobers us again.” ― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism BIRTHDAYS: 1471 Albrecht Dürer, German Renaissance painter and printmaker. 1633 Joseph de La Barre, French composer. Corant & Var. –…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.” ― Andre Gide BIRTHDAYS: 1593 Jacob Jordaens, Flemish baroque artist. 1660 Andreas Schlüter, German sculptor 1799 Honoré de Balzac, French novelist 1806 John Stuart Mill, English philosopher, political economist, politician and civil servant.…