Tag: technology
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July 31, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “If you want people to take action, you must refrain from giving them the answers.” — Eliyahu Goldratt BIRTHDAYS: 1595 Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor and architect. 1803 John Ericsson, Swedish-American engineer and inventor (designed the United States Navy’s first screw-propelled steam-frigate USS Princeton). 1848 Jean Robert Planquette, French composer. The French…
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July 30, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “We need to shut down the government for two weeks to slow the spread of totalitarianism. Don’t worry, Senator, it’s only for two weeks.” — Cecil Charles BIRTHDAYS: 1511 Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and art historian (Vasari’s Lives), born in Arezzo, Republic of Florence. 1818 Emily Brontë, English writer best known…
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July 29, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “A bad system will beat a good person every time.” — W. Edwards Deming BIRTHDAYS: 1646 Johann Theile, German composer (Adam und Eva), born in Naumburg, Hesse-Homburg. Nun, ich singe! Gott ist knie, and Gott hilf mir / Psalm 69, 2-14, 17 1796 Walter Hunt, American mechanical engineer. 1805 Alexis de…
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July 28, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.” — Karl Popper BIRTHDAYS: 1609 Judith Leyster, Dutch Golden Age painter, baptized in Haarlem, Dutch Republic. 1824 Jacopo Foroni, Italian opera composer (I gladiatori; Advokathen Panthelin), and conductor, born in Verona, Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia, Austrian Empire. “Con…
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July 27, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” — George Bernard Shaw BIRTHDAYS: 1452 Ludovico Sforza, Italian nobleman, and patron of artists and writers, who ruled as the Duke of Milan from 1494 to 1499. 1502 Francesco Corteccia, Italian composer, born in Florence, Florentine Republic. Fammi pur guerr’ amor, and…
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July 26, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.” — Aldous Huxley BIRTHDAYS: 1791 Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, youngest child of six born to composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his wife Constanze and the younger of his parents’ two surviving children.…
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July 25, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.” — Eric Hoffer BIRTHDAYS: 1579 Valerius Otto, German composer, born in Leipzig, Electorate of Saxony. Pražské tance (Couranta) 1654 Agostino Steffani, Italian-German diplomat and composer, born in Castelfranco…
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July 24, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you’re finished, you’ll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird… So let’s look at the bird and see what it’s doing — that’s what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the…
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July 23, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “When I hate I rob myself of something; but when I love I become richer by the object I love.” — Friedrich Schiller BIRTHDAYS: 1866 Francesco Cilea, Italian orchestral and opera composer (L’arlesiana; Adriana Lecouvreur), born in Palmi, Calabria, Kingdom of Italy. Aria from Adriana Lecouvreur, and Io Sono L’umile Ancella,…
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July 22, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,With conquering limbs astride from land to land;Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall standA mighty woman with a torch, whose flameIs the imprisoned lightning, and her nameMother of Exiles. From her beacon-handGlows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes commandThe air-bridged harbor that twin cities…
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