Thought for the Day...

"You go talk to kindergartners or first-grade kids, you find a class full of science enthusiasts. They ask deep questions. They ask, "What is a dream, why do we have toes, why is the moon round, what is the birthday of the world, why is grass green?"

These are profound, important questions. They just bubble right out of them.

You go talk to 12th graders and there's none of that. They've become incurious. Something terrible has happened between kindergarten...

Thought for the Day...

"What would you call America's most priceless asset? Surely not its limitless natural resources, not its matchless national wealth, not its unequalled store of gold, not its giant factories, not its surpassing railroads, not its unprecedented volume of cheap power. Is not its most priceless asset the character of its people, their indomitable self-confidence, their transcendent vision, their sleepless initiative and, perhaps above all, their inherent,...

Thought for the Day...

"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.”

— Thomas Paine

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HARSH, BUT FAIR. There Can Be No ‘Amnesty’ On Lockdowns Without A Reckoning 

WHILE YOUR BACK WAS TURNED. California police stole...

Thought for the Day...

"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.”

— Horace

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Birthdays:

1575 Guido Reni

1590 Gerard van Honthorst

1640 Carlo Mannelli:  Acceso Mio Core

1800 Eduard Brendler:  Dive...

Thought for the Day...

"No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.”

— Victor Hugo

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Birthdays:

1666 Attilio Ariosti:  Viola d'amore Sonata no.18 in d minor

1885 Will Durant

Thought for the Day...

"Without data, you're just another person with an opinion.”

— W. Edwards Deming

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Birthdays:

1566 Julien Perrichon: Courante

1753 Mikhail Kozlovsky

1771 Alois Senefelder

1814 Adolphe Sax

Thought for the Day...

"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.”

— Eric Hoffer

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Birthdays:

1598 Francisco Zurbarán

1706 Carlo Cecere: concerto per mandolino e archi

1867 Marie Curie

Thought for the Day...

If

If you can keep your head when all about you
  Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
  But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
  Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,
  And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
  If you can think—and not make thoughts your...

Thought for the Day...

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."

— Mark Twain

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Birthdays:

1801 Gail Borden

1821 Jean-Baptiste Theodore Weckerlin:  Venez, agréable printemps

1934 Carl Sagan

Thought for the Day...

"Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power and is not easy."

— Aristotle

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Birthdays:

1668 Franço...

Thought for the Day...

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."

— Ray Bradbury

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Birthdays:

1688 Lorenzo Somis:  Recorder Sonata in F Major

1821 Fyodor Dostoyevsky

1858 Marie Bashkirtseff

1922 Kurt Vonnegut

Thought for the Day...

"Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see."

— Neil Postman

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Birthdays:

1493 Bartolomeo Bandinelli

1746 Jacques Charles

1815 Elizabeth Cady Stanton

1833 Alexander Borodin: Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances 

1840 Augu...

Thought for the Day...

"Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible."

— Carl Jung

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Birthdays:

1699 Jan Zach: Preludium c-moll

Thought for the Day...

"I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking."

— Ray Bradbury

Birthdays:

1663 Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow:  Praeludium et Fugue in G LV58

1765 Robert Fulton

1797 Charles Lyell

1778 Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Piano Quintet in E-flat minor Op.87 

1805 Fanny Cacilia Mendelssohn Hensel:  Overture in C Major

1840 Claude...

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Thought for the Day...

"The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking."

— A. A. Milne

Birthdays:

1640 Nicolaus Adam Strungk:  Laudate pueri

1696 Gerhardus Havingha: Ouverture for...

Thought for the Day...

"Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors."

— Carl Sagan

Birthdays:

1615 Guillaume Dumanoir: Suite en Fa/Do majeur (12:43)

1715 Girolamo Abos:  Pelopide (12:15), and Sinfonia a due violini e basso

1717 Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert

1720 Charles-Antoine Campion:  op.4, no 2

Miscellany:

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Thought for the Day...

"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words."

— Goethe

Birthdays:

1503 Il Bronzino

1690 Noel-Nicolas Coypel

1790 August Ferdinand Möbius

1787 Michele Carafa:  Recitativo and Aria from "Le Nozze di Lammermoor"

1752 Nicolas Appert

Miscellany:

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Thought for the Day...

"The continual intrusion into our minds of the hammering noises of arguments and propaganda can lead to two kinds of reactions. It may lead to apathy and indifference, the I-don’t-care reaction, or to a more intensified desire to study and to understand. Unfortunately, the first reaction is the more popular one. The flight from study and awareness is much too common in a world that throws too many confusing pictures to the individual. For the sake of our...

Thought for the Day...

"There’s a very weird group of people who are deathly afraid of Covid but nonchalant about nuclear war."

— John Durant

Birthdays:

1607 Erasmus Quellinus II

1617 Eustache Le Sueur

1770 Bertel Thorvaldsen

1709 Pierre Leclair: Violin Concertto in D Minor, Op. 7, no. 1

1846 Emile Wauters

Miscellany:

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Thought for the Day...

"Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."

— Malcolm Forbes

Birthdays:

1625 Artus Quellinus II

1652 Romanus Weichlein:  Encaenia Musices: Sonata III en la menor

1889 Edwin Hubble

1924 Benoit Mandelbrot 

1972 Sheema Kalbasi

Miscellany:

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