Tag: fiction
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May 7, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “To give a person an opinion one must first judge well whether that person is of the disposition to receive it or not.” — Yamamoto Tsunetomo BIRTHDAYS: 1711 David Hume, Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, widely regarded as one of the most important figures of the Scottish Enlightenment and one…
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May 6, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The characteristic note of our time is the dire truth that, the mediocre soul, the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be mediocre, has the gall to assert its right to mediocrity, and goes on to impose itself where it can.” — Jose Ortega y Gasset BIRTHDAYS: 1581 Frans Francken the Younger,…
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May 5, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.” — Elbert Hubbard BIRTHDAYS: 1680 Giuseppe Porsile, Neapolitan composer, born in Naples, Kingdom of Naples, Spanish Empire. Posa sopra d`un faggio 1903 – James Beard, American culinary expert, author, and writer (influential cookbook author). MISCELLANEOUS: COMPETITION IS GOOD. Other Pipelines and Projects…
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May 4, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “If people don’t think they have the power to solve their problems, they won’t even think about how to solve them.” — Saul Alinsky BIRTHDAYS: 1826 Frederick Edwin Church, American painter (Hudson River School landscape artist). 1905 Mátyás Seiber, Hungarian-British composer (classical and jazz). Four French Folk Songs 1907 Lincoln Kirstein,…
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May 3, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” — George Orwell, 1984 BIRTHDAYS: 1655: Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian instrument maker and inventor of the piano. 1738: Josef Kohaut, Czech composer. Concerto per il liuto, due violini & violoncello F-dur 1825:…
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May 2, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “That you can now be called adult does not mean you have achieved your full power, only that you are able to acquire other and larger powers.” — E.E. “Doc” Smith BIRTHDAYS: 1601 Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit priest, scholar, and polymath whose prolific work spanned natural philosophy, linguistics, geography, music, and…
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May 1, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Utopias seem to be much more achievable than we formerly believed them to be. Now we find ourselves presented with a completely different question: How can we avoid their definitive realization? … Utopias are achievable. Life marches toward utopias. And perhaps a new century is beginning, a century in which intellectuals…
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April 30, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn’t have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don’t have a space program, it’ll serve us right!” — Larry Niven BIRTHDAYS: 1777 Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician and physicist (often called the “Prince of Mathematicians”; contributions to number theory, statistics, electromagnetism,…
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April 29, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “To doubt everything and to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; each saves us from thinking.” — Henri Poincare BIRTHDAYS: 1854 Henri Poincaré, French mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science who exerted profound influence across multiple disciplines through his prolific output of over 500 papers and 30 books.…
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April 28, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” — Harper Lee BIRTHDAYS: 1874 Karl Kraus, Austrian…
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