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February 27, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It’s not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want…
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February 26, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Not being heard is no reason for silence.” — Victor Hugo BIRTHDAYS: 1564 Christopher Marlowe, English poet and dramatist (Dr Faustus). 1587 Stefano Landi, Italian opera composer (Il Sant’Alessio), and teacher, born in Rome, Papal States. A che più l’arco tendere 1677 Nicola Fago, Italian baroque composer, born in Taranto, Kingdom…
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February 25, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.” — Anthony Burgess BIRTHDAYS: 1555 Alonso Lobo, Spanish composer (Versa est in luctum), baptized in Osuna, Habsburg Spain. Versa est in luctum 1727 Armand-Louis Couperin, French composer, harpsichordist, and organist. Allemande in G Major, Pièces de…
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February 24, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Even so those who teach little children too often have the idea that they are educating babies and seek to place themselves on the child’s level by approaching him with games, and often with foolish stories. Instead of all this, we must know how to call to the man which lies…
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February 23, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanction of political authority is not necessary for its existence. Certain commodities came to be money quite naturally, as the result of economic relationships that were independent of the power of the…
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February 22, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulae have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than we are, wiser even than their discoverers, that we get more out of them than was originally put into them.” — Heinrich Hertz BIRTHDAYS: 1732 George Washington,…
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February 21, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.” — Andre Gide BIRTHDAYS: 1556 Sethus Calvisius, German composer, born in Gorsleben, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire. Domine, Domine 1836 (Clement) Léo Delibes, French…
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February 20, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “That perfected machines may one day succeed us is, I remember, an extremely commonplace notion on Earth. It prevails not only among poets and romantics but in all classes of society. Perhaps it is because it is so widespread, born spontaneously in popular imagination, that it irritates scientific minds. Perhaps it…
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February 19, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.” — Nicolaus Copernicus BIRTHDAYS: 1473 Nicolaus Copernicus, Renaissance astronomer, mathematician, and polymath best known for proposing the heliocentric model of the solar system — the revolutionary…
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February 18, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “When a distinction lacks a name, it tends to disappear into the background of experience. Language focuses attention. Naming a concept does not invent it — it allows us to notice, discuss, and refine it deliberately.” — Al Shalloway BIRTHDAYS: 1632 Giovanni Battista Vitali, Italian composer, born in Bologna, Papal States.…
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