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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Correction does much, but encouragement does more.” — Goethe BIRTHDAYS: 1632 Jean-Baptiste Lully, Italian-born composer, conductor, and dancer who rose to prominence as the leading musical figure at the court of Louis XIV, pioneering the French style of opera known as tragédie lyrique and establishing foundational elements of French Baroque music.…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done. Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.” — Bruce Lee BIRTHDAYS: 1544 Ascanio Trombetti [Cavallari], Italian cornetist, composer, and maestro di cappella (San Giovanni de Monti, 1583-1591), baptized in Bologna, Papal States. Timete…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “So much of science proceeds by telling stories.” — Stephen J. Gould BIRTHDAYS: 1640 Carl Rosier, Dutch baroque composer, born in Prince-Bishopric of Liège, Holy Roman Empire. Sonata I in C 1795 Carl Philipp Fohr, German painter and cartoonist 1876 Willis Carrier, American mechanical engineer and inventor best known for developing…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.” — Lewis Thomas BIRTHDAYS: 1814 Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (first law of thermodynamics). 1835 Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-born American industrialist and…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Integrity is self-coherence. The word derives from the Latin root integer, which means “intact.” Integrity, as its etymology suggests, describes inner sturdiness, or wholeness of self.” — Alexandra Hudson BIRTHDAYS: 1690 Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German-American composer (son of Johann Pachelbel), one of the first European composers to emigrate to America. Magnificat…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.” — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn BIRTHDAYS: 1803 Theodore Dwight Weld, one of the architects of the American abolitionist movement during its formative years from 1830 to 1844, playing a…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.” — Voltaire BIRTHDAYS: 1683 Johann Michael Müller, German organist and composer, born in Schmalkalden, Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel, Holy Roman Empire. Sonata no. 4 in F Major for Oboe solo, two Oboes, Taille and Bassoon, op. 1 1694 Voltaire,…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Miners operating among the asteroids will be unable to produce most of their necessary supplies locally. There will thus be a need to import food and other necessary goods either from Earth or Mars.” — Robert Zubrin BIRTHDAYS: 1652 Romanus Weichlein, Austrian composer. Sonata 1 in C-major 1889 Edwin Hubble, American…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn’t have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don’t have a space program, it’ll serve us right!” — Larry Niven BIRTHDAYS: 1607 Erasmus Quellinus II, Flemish painter and etcher. 1617 Eustache Le Sueur, French painter. 1770 Bertel Thorvaldsen, Danish sculptor (Dying…