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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement. If Eudaimonia, or happiness, is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence; and this will be that of…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it!” — Yuri Gagarin BIRTHDAYS: 1454 Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian merchant, navigator, and explorer born in Florence who participated in transatlantic expeditions sponsored by Spain and Portugal, primarily between…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality” — Ayn Rand BIRTHDAYS: 1560 Don Carlo Gesualdo, Italian Prince of Venosa and composer, born in Venosa, Kingdom of Naples. O Vos Omnes 1714 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer, son of J. S. Bach, born in Weimar,…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.” — Friedrich Nietzsche BIRTHDAYS: 1475 Michelangelo, Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. 1710 Giuseppe Antonio Paganelli, Italian composer, born in Padua, Republic of Venice. Aria Pastorale, and Aria sub…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.” — Sun Tzu, The Art of War BIRTHDAYS: 1475 Michelangelo, Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. 1710 Giuseppe Antonio Paganelli, Italian composer, born in Padua, Republic of Venice. Aria Pastorale, and Aria…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “I am a member of a fragile species, still new to the earth, the youngest creatures of any scale, here only a few moments as evolutionary time is measured, a juvenile species, a child of a species. We are only tentatively set in place, error prone, at risk of fumbling, in…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “I am a member of a fragile species, still new to the earth, the youngest creatures of any scale, here only a few moments as evolutionary time is measured, a juvenile species, a child of a species. We are only tentatively set in place, error prone, at risk of fumbling, in…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.” — Alexander Graham Bell BIRTHDAYS: 1847 Alexander Graham Bell, Canadian-American inventor, scientist, and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. 1857 Alfred Bruneau, French cellist, and composer, chiefly of opera. La belle au bois dormant MISCELLANEOUS: IT DOESN’T SOUND…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.” — Thomas Paine BIRTHDAYS: 1824 Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer. Má Vlast, No. 2. Vltava (River Moldau) 1859 Sholem Aleichem [Solomon Rabinowitz], Yiddish author and playwright (Fiddler…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” — G.K. Chesterton BIRTHDAYS: 1445 Sandro Botticelli, Florentine Early Renaissance painter (Birth of Venus), born in Florence, Republic of Florence. 1494 Il Bacchiacca [Franceso Ubertini], Italian Renaissance painter, born…