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THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “That’s the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.” ― Larry Niven BIRTHDAYS: 1291 Philippe de Vitry, French composer and poet. Firmissime fidem / Alleluya, 1632 Jan Vermeer, Dutch Baroque Period painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. 1638 Meindert Hobbema,…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.” ― John Adams…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “We are ready to accept almost any explanation of the present crisis of our civilization except one: that the present state of the world may be the result of genuine error on our own part and that the pursuit of some of our most cherished ideals has apparently produced results utterly…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “It is the mark of a tyrant, indeed an underhand deception, to treat people at large the way that animal trainers customarily treat a wild beast; for their prime concern is to observe what pacifies it or what arouses it, and they provoke or soothe it to suit their own convenience.”…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Another strange notion pervading whole peoples is that the State has money of its own; and nowhere is this absurdity more firmly fixed than in America. The State has no money. It produces nothing. It existence is purely parasitic, maintained by taxation; that is to say, by forced levies on the…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.” ― Voltaire BIRTHDAYS: 1645 Aert de Gelder, Dutch painter. 1685 Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer and harpsichordist. 5 harpsichord sonatas (20:53), and Sonata K.475 MISCELLANY: FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.” ― Frederick Douglass BIRTHDAYS: 1556 Giovanni Battista Caccini, Italian sculptor 1607 John Lievens, Dutch painter, etcher and wood carver 1739 Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, German princess and composer. Divertimento 1811 Ferdinand Hiller, German pianist, composer and conductor. Cha.4, No.16 Des-dur,Op.15 MISCELLANY: FOCUSED…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.” ― Elie Wiesel BIRTHDAYS: 1801 (Gustav) Albert Lortzing, German Spieloper composer and actor. http://Welt, du kannst mir nicht gefallen 1942 Michael Crichton, American writer…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.” ― Isaiah Berlin BIRTHDAYS: 1811 Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor,…