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THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.” ― Heinrich Heine BIRTHDAYS: 1620 Johann Weichmann, German organist, and sacred and secular music composer. Rede eines verstorbenen Jünglings aus dem Grabe. 1658 Nicolas Coustou, French sculptor 1674 Reinhard Keiser, German opera composer and conductor. Markuspassion 8.MPG, and “Die römische Unruhe,…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.” ― George Bernard Shaw BIRTHDAYS: 1668 Jean Gilles, French composer. Requiem, and Messe des morts 1804 George Childress, lawyer, politician, and a principal author of the Texas Declaration of Independence. 1823 Alfred Russel Wallace, English…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” ― Gandhi BIRTHDAYS: 1710 Josef Antonin Sehling, Bohemian violinist and composer. Pastorela Eja surgite pastores 1834 Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and inventor. 1899 Francis Poulenc, French pianist and composer. “Les Chemins de l’amour”, and Priez pour paix,…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The real test of good manners is to be able to put up with bad manners pleasantly.” ― Khalil Gibran BIRTHDAYS: 1695 Giuseppe Sammartini, Italian oboe virtuoso and late Baroque/early classical composer. Recorder concerto in F major 1745 Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, French inventor and pioneer balloonist 1832 Gustave Doré, French painter and…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The manner in which things exist and take place, constitutes what is called the nature of things; and a careful observation of the nature of things is the sole foundation of all truth.” ― Jean-Baptiste Say BIRTHDAYS: 1560 William Cobbold, British organist and composer. New Fashions 1596 Henry Lawes, English composer.…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “I do not like to see ignorant or despotic officials interfering needlessly with private lives; I do not like to see creative thought crushed by the tyranny of stupid majorities. I do not like persecution, whether by majorities or of minorities. I am suspicious of government and distrustful of politicians; but…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’” ― Isaac Asimov BIRTHDAYS: 106 BC Cicero, Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, writer and Academic skeptic, who tried…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The bad economist sees only what immediately strikes the eye; the good economist also looks beyond. The bad economist sees only the direct consequences of a proposed course; the good economist looks also at the longer and indirect consequences. The bad economist sees only what the effect of a given policy…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Although we had been warned by some of the greatest political thinkers of the nineteenth century, by Tocqueville and Lord Acton, that socialism means slavery, we have steadily moved in the direction of socialism.” ― Friedrich Hayek BIRTHDAYS: 1449 Lorenzo de’ Medici, Italian statesman and banker who served as the de…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Why doesn’t anyone believe me anymore?” ― The boy who cried “Wolf!” BIRTHDAYS: 1573 Giulio Cesare Monteverdi, Italian organist and composer. In cythara et voce 1869 Henri Matisse, French visual artist. MISCELLANY: FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration Yes, the following is on the website for the Bulgarian Association for Pathology…