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THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content.” ― Émile Zola BIRTHDAYS: 1667 Jonathan Swift, Author, Poet and Satirist 1796 Carl Loewe, German composer. Ballade. 1835 Mark Twain, American writer, humorist, essayist, entrepreneur,…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.” ― Groucho Marx BIRTHDAYS: 1797 Domenico Gaetano Donizetti, Italian opera composer. Lucia’s cavatina from Lucia di Lammermoor, and Una Furtiva Lagrima 1803 Christian Doppler, Austrian mathematician and physicist. 1849 John Ambrose Fleming,…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.” ― Ron Paul BIRTHDAYS: 1632 Jean-Baptiste Lully, Italian-born French composer. Chaconne, and Le bourgeois gentilhomme – Suite, and Dance of the Sun King Le Roi Soleil King Louis XIV of France 1757 William Blake, English poet, painter,…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “If your goal is to never make a mistake in your life, you shouldn’t look for secrets. The prospect of being lonely but right—dedicating your life to something that no one else believes in—is already hard. The prospect of being lonely and wrong can be unbearable.” ― Peter Thiel BIRTHDAYS: 1544…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Let us not forget that the best morale booster for ourselves is to help to lift the morale of others.” ― Joost A.M. Meerloo BIRTHDAYS: 1640 Carl Rosier, Dutch baroque composer. Trio Sonata in Do minore 1653 Andreas Anton Schmelzer, Austrian composer. Sonata Die Türkenschlacht bei Wien 1683 1876 Willis Carrier,…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “DON’T HURT PEOPLE, AND don’t take their stuff. That’s it, in a nutshell. Everyone should be free to live their lives as they think best, free from meddling by politicians and government bureaucrats, as long as they don’t hurt other people, or take other people’s stuff.” ― Matt Kibbe BIRTHDAYS: 1752…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” ― Helen Keller BIRTHDAYS: 1632 Baruch Spinoza, Dutch rationalist philosopher 1690 Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German-American composer (son of Johann Pachelbel,…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.” ― Albert Schweitzer BIRTHDAYS: 1803 Theodore Dwight Weld, one of the architects of the American abolitionist…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Tolerating the distortion of history is the first step toward tolerating humiliation in real life.” ― Ai Weiwei BIRTHDAYS: 1458 Jacob Obrecht, Flemish-Dutch composer of motets and masses. Tandernaken, and Rompeltier 1690 François Colin de Blamont, French composer. Te Deum 1710 Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer, organist and harpsichordist. Sinfonia in…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The opposite of addiction is not sobriety, it is human connection.” ― Johann Hari BIRTHDAYS: 1694 Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian. 1852 Francisco Tárrega, Spanish composer. “Lágrima” 1863 Arthur Quiller-Couch, Cornish novelist and editor (The Oxford Book Of English Verse 1250–1900) 1871 Panayot Pipkov, Bulgarian bandmaster, composer,…