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March 26, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “I have never understood why it is ‘greed’ to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.” — Thomas Sowell BIRTHDAYS: 1684 Johann Graf, German composer, born in Free Imperial City of Nürnberg, Holy Roman Empire. Sonate G Dur Op 2/VI…
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March 25, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Evil comes from a failure to think. It defies thought for as soon as thought tries to engage itself with evil and examine the premises and principles from which it originates, it is frustrated because it finds nothing there. That is the banality of evil.” — Hannah Arendt BIRTHDAYS: 1495 Leonhard…
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March 24, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Less than seventy-five years after it officially began, the contest between capitalism and socialism is over: capitalism has won.” — Robert Heilbroner BIRTHDAYS: 1681 Georg Philipp Telemann, German late Baroque composer, and multi-instrumentalist, born in Magdeburg, Margraviate of Brandenburg, Holy Roman Empire. Sonata in D major, TWV 44:1, and Quatuor en…
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March 23, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “What we know is not much. What we don’t know is enormous.” — Pierre Simon De Laplace BIRTHDAYS: 1749 Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace, French mathematician, astronomer and physicist (stability of the solar system). 1910 Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director, producer, and screenwriter whose innovative storytelling, profound humanism, and dynamic visual style…
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March 22, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness, or retain them when proved to be erroneous.” — Michael Faraday BIRTHDAYS: 1599 Anthony Van Dyck, Flemish painter (Charles I of England), born in Antwerp, Spanish Netherlands. 1700 Giuseppe…
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March 21, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: ““Since 1849 I have studied incessantly, under all its aspects, a question which was already in my mind since 1832. I confess that my scheme is still a mere dream, and I do not shut my eyes to the fact that so long as I alone believe it to be possible,…
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March 20, 2026
Happy Nowruz! THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.” — Ovid BIRTHDAYS: 43 BC Ovid [Publius Ovidius Naso], Roman poet famous for writing “Metamorphoses”, born in Sulmo, Italy, Roman Republic. 1741 Jean-Antoine Houdon, French neoclassical…
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March 19, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “We know that the National Socialists were thoroughly collectivistic and strongly anti-individualistic. For them the relevant groups were the Germanic Aryans—and all the others. Individuals were defined by their group identity, and individuals were seen only as vehicles through which the groups achieved their interests. The Nazis rejected the Western liberal…
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March 18, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview – nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.” — Stephen Jay Gould BIRTHDAYS: 1844 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer. Scheherazade op.35 (52:08) 1915 Richard Condon, American author (The Manchurian Candidate). MISCELLANEOUS: Sic ’em, boy! Scientists Turn Bacteria Into…
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March 17, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Hatred and anger are the greatest poison to the happiness of a good mind.” — Adam Smith BIRTHDAYS: 1578 Francesco Albana, Italian painter. 1628 François Girardon, French sculptor. 1665 Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, French harpsichordist, organist, singer, and composer (Les pièces de clavessin; Céphale et Procris). Prélude & Chaconne “L’Inconstante”…
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