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August 20, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.” — Alexis de Tocqueville BIRTHDAYS: 1561 Jacopo Peri, Italian composer and singer who wrote the 1st recognized opera “Dafne”, born in Rome, Papal States. 1720 Bernard de Bury, French musician…
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August 19, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “A flea and a fly in a flueWere imprisoned, so what could they do?Said the fly, “let us flee!”“Let us fly!” said the flea.So they flew through a flaw in the flue.” — Ogden Nash BIRTHDAYS: 1580 Pierre Vernier, French mathematician, inventor of the vernier caliper used for taking accurate measurements.…
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August 18, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder.” — Brian Aldiss BIRTHDAYS: 1497 Francesco da Milano, Italian lutenist and composer, also known as ‘Il divino’, born in Monza. Fantasias 9, 11, 10, and Ricercari 1750 Antonio Salieri, Italian composer and teacher of…
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August 17, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.” — Lord Acton BIRTHDAYS: 1578 Francesco Albani, Italian painter (Dance of the Amorini), born in Bologna, Papal States. 1607 Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician who is given credit for early developments that led to…
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August 16, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” — Will Durant BIRTHDAYS: 1761 Yevstigney…
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August 15, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “We need to have a talk on the subject of what’s yours and what’s mine.” — Stieg Larsson BIRTHDAYS: 1725 Ferdinando Bertoni, Italian composer, born in Salò, Lombardy, Republic of Venice. Addio, addio, o miel sospiri from Tancredi, and Quartet 1736 Johann Christoph Kellner, German organist and composer, born in Gräfenroda,…
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August 14, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.” — Baruch Spinoza BIRTHDAYS: 1675 Johann Georg Christian Störl, composer, born in Kirchberg an der Jagst, Duchy of Württemberg, Holy Roman Empire. Sonata 26, Ars Perpetuum 1714 Claude-Joseph Vernet, French…
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August 13, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.” — Ambrose Bierce BIRTHDAYS: 1422 William Caxton, English merchant, diplomat and writer. He is thought to be the first person to introduce a printing press into England in 1476, and as a printer to be the first…
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August 12, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The first requirement of a scientist is to be curious. He must be capable of being astonished and eager to find out.” — Erwin Schrödinger BIRTHDAYS: 1626 Giovanni Legrenzi, Venetian Baroque organist and composer, born in Clusone, Republic of Venice. Il mio core non è con me, and Balletto secondo a…
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August 11, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences.” — Robert G. Ingersoll BIRTHDAYS: 1748 Joseph Schuster, German composer, born in Dresden, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire. Seven Variations for Two Harpsichords 1833 Robert G. Ingersoll, American writer, orator and agnostic. MISCELLANEOUS: I WANT ONE. Figure AI…
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