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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: ‘But what would you replace it with?’ When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with?” — Thomas Sowell BIRTHDAYS: 1474 Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian painter 1652 Johann Heinrich Kittel, German composer.…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.” — Francis Bacon BIRTHDAYS: 1686 Silvius Leopold Weiss, German composer and lutenist. Courante in F-Major, and Fantasia 1742 Johann Peter Melchior, German sculptor. 1860 Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American entrepreneur and inventor (gyrocompass). 1935 Luciano Pavarotti,…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.” — Carl Gustav Jung BIRTHDAYS: 1747 Marian Paradeiser, Austrian composer. Sicilienne 1821 George Williams, English philanthropist, businessman and founder of the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA). The oldest and largest youth charity in the world, its aim is to support…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “A world without love would be no world.” — Goethe BIRTHDAYS: 1684 Jean-Antoine Watteau, French Rococo painter. 1731 Henry Cavendish, England, physicist and chemist (discovered hydrogen). 1738 Benjamin West, Anglo-American painter. 1813 Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer best known for his operas. Nabucco – Hebrew Slaves Chorus, and Triumphal March from Aida,…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “There is in the garden a plant which one ought to leave dry, although most people water it. It is the weed called Envy.” — Cosimo de’ Medici BIRTHDAYS: 1585 Heinrich Schütz, German Baroque organist and composer, baptized in Köstritz, Imperial County of Reuss, Holy Roman Empire. Nicht uns, Herr, and…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even specially, the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities.” — Allan Bloom BIRTHDAYS: 1551…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.” — Benedict de Spinoza BIRTHDAYS: 1698 Henri Madin, French composer. Motet pour l’Assomption. 1885 Niels Bohr, Danish theoretical physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.” — Aldous Huxley BIRTHDAYS: 1618 Miguel Gómez Camargo, Spanish baroque composer. “Un portugués y un gallego” 1846 George Westinghouse, prolific American inventor, engineer, and entrepreneurial industrialist based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 1903 Ernest…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill… we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.” — Plato BIRTHDAYS: 1590 Johann Schop, German composer and violinist, born in Niedersachsen,…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.” — Christopher Hitchens BIRTHDAYS: 1515 Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter. 1528 Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer. A un niño llorando al hielo, and Los reyes siguen la estrella, and Trahe me post te 1657 Francesco Solimena, Italian painter. 1861…