Tag: writing
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July 15, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.” — Alexander Pope BIRTHDAYS: 1606 Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. 1638 Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani, Italian…
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July 14, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “A really good government is a government under which people are permitted to take risks of loss.” — R.C. Hoiles BIRTHDAYS: 1486 Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter. 1862 Gustav Klimt, Austrian Symbolist painter. 1707 Jacques-Philippe Lamoninary, French composer. Sonate 1 opus 1756 Thomas Rowlandson, English painter, cartoonist and etcher. MISCELLANEOUS: SAY IT…
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July 13, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.” — Buckminster Fuller BIRTHDAYS: 100 BC Julius Caesar, Roman general and statesman. 1944 Ernő Rubik, Hungarian architect and inventor, widely known for creating the Rubik’s Cube. MISCELLANEOUS: PLEASE FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELTS. Elon Musk’s GROK 4…
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July 12, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” — Epicurus BIRTHDAYS: 1675 Evaristo Felice dall’Abaco, Italian cellist and composer, born in Verona, Republic of Venice. Op. 5: No. 6 in D major,…
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July 11, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Knowledge isn’t free. You have to pay attention.” — Richard Feynman BIRTHDAYS: 1810 Eugène Simonis, Belgian sculptor. 1811 William Robert Grove, Welsh physicist and inventor of the first fuel cell. 1834 James McNeill Whistler, American-British painter 1837 Paul Lacombe, French composer. Dialogue sentimental, and Aria, and Suite 2 Lento à Limoux,…
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July 10, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.” — Eric Hoffer BIRTHDAYS: 1759 Sophia Maria Westenholz (née Fritscher), German singer, composer, and educator, born in Neubrandenburg, Swedish Pomerania. Theme and Variations 1856 Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American engineer,…
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July 9, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.” — Friedrich August von Hayek BIRTHDAYS: 1766 Jacob Perkins,…
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July 8, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “It is easy to be conspicuously ‘compassionate’ if others are being forced to pay the cost.” — Murray N. Rothbard BIRTHDAYS: 1574 Giovanni Battista Stefanini, Italian organist, maestro di cappella, and composer, born in Milan, Duchy of Milan, Habsburg Spain. Christus resurgens ex mortuis 1593 Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian baroque painter, the…
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July 7, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” — Arthur C. Clarke, third law BIRTHDAYS: 1860 Gustav Mahler, Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation. Das Lied von der Erde (1:03), and 4. Sinfonie (1:04) 1907 Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction author, aeronautical engineer, and naval officer. Sometimes called…
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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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