Tag: music
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January 3, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.” — Cicero BIRTHDAYS: 106 AD Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman statesman, orator, lawyer, and philosopher active during the final decades of the Roman Republic. 1892 J. R. R. Tolkien, English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor…
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January 2, 2026
THOUGHT FOR 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: 1732 František “Franz” Xaver Brixi, Czech classical composer and kapellmeister, born in Prague, Kingdom…
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January 1, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.” — Edmund Burke BIRTHDAYS: 1449 Lorenzo de’ Medici, Italian statesman, banker, and de facto ruler of the Republic of Florence from 1469 until his death, inheriting power at age twenty from his father Piero upon the latter’s death in 1469. 1628…
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December 31, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn’t possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: ‘Oh yes they could!’” — Vladimir Bukovsky BIRTHDAYS: 1514 Andreas Vesalius, Flemish anatomist, physician, and author widely regarded as the founder of modern human anatomy for his pioneering emphasis on empirical dissection of human…
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December 30, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who.” — Rudyard Kipling BIRTHDAYS: 1566 Alessandro Piccinini, Italian lutenist and composer, born in Bologna, Papal States. Toccata VII 1678 William Croft, British composer and organist.…
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December 29, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.” — Peter Drucker BIRTHDAYS: 1776 Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist and inventor (waterproof fabric). 1800 Charles Goodyear, American inventor renowned for developing the process of vulcanization, a method of treating rubber with sulfur and heat that transformed it from a…
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December 28, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.” — Mortimer J. Adler BIRTHDAYS: 1651 Johann Krieger, German organist and composer, born in the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg, Holy Roman…
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December 27, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The role of the infinitely small in nature is infinitely great.” — Louis Pasteur BIRTHDAYS: 1571 Johannes Kepler, German mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer renowned for formulating the three laws of planetary motion, which mathematically described the orbits of planets around the Sun and laid the groundwork for classical mechanics. 1572 Jan…
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December 26, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.” — Charles Babbage BIRTHDAYS:…
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December 25, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay…
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