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THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”There’s an old saying in business: You’re the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” ― Peter H. Diamandis BIRTHDAYS: 1636 Esaias Reusner, German lutenist and composer. Sonatina D major 1854 Henri Poincaré, French mathematician 1860 Lorado Taft, American sculptor 1863 William Randolph Hearst, American businessman, newspaper…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”An immoral society betrays humanity because it betrays the basis for humanity, which is memory. An immoral society deals with memory as some politicians deal with politics. A moral society is committed to memory: I believe in memory. The Greek word alethia means Truth, Things that cannot be forgotten. I believe…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.” ― Marcus Aurelius BIRTHDAYS: 1623 Johann Adam Reincken, German organist and composer. Fuge g-moll, and “Ballett” in E Minor, and Sonata 1, first 4 movements, Pisendel movement 3, and Allemande in G, and Toccata in G 1759 Mary Wollstonecraft, British…

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: 121 Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor from 161 to 180 and a Stoic philosopher. 1538 Gian…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Tolerating the distortion of history is the first step toward tolerating humiliation in real life.” ― Ai Weiwei BIRTHDAYS: 1677 Guillaume Coustou Sr, French sculptor 1690 Gottlieb Theophil Muffat, German composer. Fugue in g minor, and Toccata prima, and Passacaglia 1730 Fedele Fenaroli, Italian composer. Partimento: Book IV, No. 30 in…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Monopolies are bad because people get bad service for high prices. Competition is good because people get good service for competitive prices.” ― Timothy C. Draper BIRTHDAYS: 1670 Christian Ludwig Boxberg, German composer. Machet die Tore weit. 1706 Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian Conventual Franciscan friar and composer. Partimento in B minor,…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”It’s illegal to forcefully take money from people unless you’re the government. It’s illegal to take someone’s liberty, unless you’re the government. It’s illegal to kill someone, unless you’re the government. Private organizations can do everything that government can do except for legally break the law.” ― J.S.B. Morse BIRTHDAYS: 1564…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.” ― Daniel Hannan BIRTHDAYS: 1658 Giuseppe Torelli, Italian composer. Concerto in D Major, and Violin Concerto Op.8 No.6, and Violin Concerto Op.8, No.8 1682 Willem Ignatius Kerricx, Flemish architect, sculptor and painter. MISCELLANY: FURTHER PROOF…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Never let a bad day go to waste.” ― Scott Adams BIRTHDAYS: 1555 Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter. 1672 Johann Philipp Käfer, German composer. Suite ‘Musicalische Battaille’ 1806 Peter van Schendel, Dutch-Belgian painter. 1816 Charlotte Brontë, English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.” ― Marcus Aurelius BIRTHDAYS: 1745 Philippe Pinel, French physician, precursor of psychiatry and incidentally a zoologist. He was instrumental in the development of a…