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July 6, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” — P.J. O’Rourke BIRTHDAYS: 1632 Albert Schop, German composer, born in Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire. Herr wie lange 1638 Gerrit Berckheyde, Dutch painter. 1702 Franz Anton Maichelbeck, German composer, born in Reichenau, Prince-Bishopric of Constance,…
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July 5, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.” — Adlai Stevenson BIRTHDAYS: 1654 Antonio Maria Pacchioni, Baroque composer, baptized in Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio. Libera me Domine (fragment), and Dixit Dominus 1810 P. T. Barnum, American showman, businessman, and politician remembered…
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July 4, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Political liberty of the subject is a tranquility of mind arising from the opinion each person has of his safety. In order to have this liberty, it is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.” — Montesquieu BIRTHDAYS: 1669 Alexander von Papenhoven, Flemish…
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July 3, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.” — Christopher Hitchens BIRTHDAYS: 1550 Jakob Handl [Petelin], German-Austrian composer (Opus musicum), and Cistercian monk, born in Reifnitz, Carniola. Pater noster 1643 Alessandro Stradella, Italian violinist and composer, born in Bologna, Papal States. Sinfonia in d minor 1738 John…
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July 2, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: ”Welcome to the USA, where our harshest critics refuse to leave.” — David Burge BIRTHDAYS: 1581 Johann Staden, German baroque organist and composer, baptized in Free Imperial City of Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire. Toccata, and Intrada, and Pavane III, and Sih in dich selbst,du Seele mein 1636 Daniel Speer, German composer,…
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July 1, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: ”No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation , an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be no such thing as “the right to enslave.” — Ayn Rand BIRTHDAYS: 1646 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat…
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June 30, 2025
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: 1669 Mauritius Vogt, German composer, geographer, cartographer, musician, historian and a member of the Cistercian Order, born in Königshofen, Electorate…
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June 29, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: ”When a beggar asks us for a quarter, our instinct is to say that the State has already confiscated our quarter for his benefit, and he should go to the State about it.” — Albert Jay Nock BIRTHDAYS: 1783 August Alexander Klengel, German pianist and composer, born in Dresden, Electorate of…
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June 28, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: ”Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of whatever you’re doing is as valuable as gold.” — Elon Musk BIRTHDAYS: 1547 Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian composer, born in Lucca, Republic of Lucca. Canzona 1560, and Sinfonia à 6 1577 Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish Baroque painter (Circumcision) 1586 Paul Siefert, German composer…
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June 27, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: ”Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of the other.” — Ambrose Bierce BIRTHDAYS: 1745 Johann Nepomuk Went, Bohemian composer, born in Vinařice, Kingdom of Bohemia. Deuxième Suite 1819 Carl Albert Löschhorn, German composer, born in Berlin,…
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