Thought for the Day...

"There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse."

— David Hume

Birthdays:

1499 Lorenzo de' Medici

1652 Johann Krieger: Allemande in C, and Chaconne in g-Moll

1697 Johann Pfeiffer: Concerto A major for Viola da gamba

1735 Paul Revere

1878 Agner Krarup Erlang

1927 Vernon L. Smith

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“Without music, life would be an error.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Birthdays:

1732 František "Franz" Xaver Brixi: Pastores loquebantur

1777 Christian Daniel Rauch

1920 Isaac Asimov, Isaac Asimov bibliography

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FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

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STARTING 2023 WITH SOME CHEER. Shredding away the COVID...

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“Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one's imagination - perhaps more importantly - creativity is the power to act.”

— Ai Weiwei

Birthdays:

106 Cicero

1789 Carl Gustav Carus

1793 Lucretia Mott

1823 Jaak-Nikolaas Lemmens: Fanfare in D-Dur

1835 Larkin Goldsmith Mead

1892 J. R. R. Tolkien

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“Technology is a resource-liberating mechanism. It can make the once scarce the now abundant.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

Birthdays:

1710 Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Quando corpus morietur-Amen

1785 Jacob Grimm

1813 Isaac Pitman

1881 Wilhelm Lehmbruck

1874 Josef Suk: Serenade for strings op. 6 - 1st Mvt

1878 Augustus John

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“There’s an old saying in business: You’re the average of the five people you spend the most time with. ”

— Peter H. Diamandis

Birthdays:

1596 Henry Lawes: Go Lovely Rose

1688 Johann Georg Pisendel: Sonata in D major for violin and basso continuo

1696 Giuseppe Galli-Bibiena

1729 Paulus Constantijn la Fargue

1837 Algernon Charles Swinburne

1909 Stephen Cole Kleene

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“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:

1695 Giuseppe Sammartini: Sonata Prima in Do maggiore per violino e b. c.

1807 Jozef Maximilián Petzval

1832 Gustave Doré

1905 Eric Frank Russell

1965 Bjorn Lomborg

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“Freedom is the societal condition that exists when every individual has 100% control of his own property.”

— Andrew J. Galambos

Birthdays:

1710 Josef Antonin Sehling: Pastorela Eja surgite pastores

1830 Albert Bierstadt

1834 Johann Philipp Reis

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“Quality takes time and reduces quantity, so it makes you, in a sense, less efficient. The efficiency-optimized organization recognizes quality as its enemy. That's why many corporate Quality Programs are really Quality Reduction Programs in disguise.”

— Tom DeMarco,

Birthdays:

1668 Jean Gilles: Requiem (3:43), Requiem (50:17)

1836 Lawrence Alma Tadema

1846 Albert Cahen: Valse

1923 Joseph Weizenbaum

1942 Stephen Hawking

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“One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas I'll never know.”

— Groucho Marx

Birthdays:

1620 Johann Weichmann:  Sol ich dann jezo gar

1931 Algis Budrys

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OH, WELL... YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT PLAY. America’s spy agencies failed to protect...

Thought for the Day...

“There’s only one way to improve society. Present it with a single improved unit: yourself.”

— Albert Jay Nock

Birthdays:

1683 Gasparo Visconti: Sonata in sol minore op. I n. 3, and Sonata in E Minor, Op. 1 No. 5 (live) | III. Grave

1738 Ethan Allen

1864 George Washington Carver 

1877 Frederick Gardner Cottrell

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“Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.”

— George Washington Carver

Birthdays:

1856 Christian Sinding: Suite in the Old Style

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“A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.”

— Jeff Bezos

Birthdays:

1591 José Ribera/Jusepe de Ribera

1597 François Duquesnoy

1849 Jean Béraud

1856 John Singer Sargent

1628 Charles Perrault

1715 Jacques Duphly: Rondeau (1er Livre), and I Médée, and 'La Forqueray' from Piéces de Clavecin Bokk III

1964 Jeff Bezos

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“Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.”

— Thomas Paine

Birthdays:

1683 Johann Christoph Graupner: Ouverture C dur GWV 405

1690 Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel: Concerto grosso a quattro cori in D

1870 Henryk Opieński: Kwiecień

1906  Zhou Youguang

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“Journalism is about covering important stories. With a pillow, until they stop moving.”

— David Burge

Birthdays:

1451 Franchinus Gaffurius: Mottetti e Missa de Carnaval - parte IV

1684 Jean-Baptiste Vanloo

1566 Angelo Notari: Baroque Organ and Cornetto, and Aria sopra la Monica

1841 Berthe Morisot

1857 Alice Pike Barney

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“On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right?

There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Birthdays:

1878 Johanna Muller-Hermann: Intermezzo (D...

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“But let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then tell me how much of what I earn belongs to you - and why?”

— Walter E. Williams

Birthdays:

1672 Francesco Mancini: Sonata No.11 in g moll

1728 Niccolo Piccinni: Ouverture da "Il Regno della Luna"

1853 André Michelin

1874 Robert W. Service

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“The old ways of teaching are slow and expensive. But with mobile, cost plummets, access broadens, and pedagogy rises.”

— Michael J. Saylor

Birthdays:

1706 Benjamin Franklin

1899 Nevil Shute

1659 Antonio Veracini: Sonata op.3 nr.9

1734 François-Joseph Gossec: Gavotte

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“Never ruin an apology with an excuse.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Birthdays:

1543 Alfonso Ferrabosco: Pavan, and Ero cosi dicea

1779 Peter Mark Roget

1782 Daniel Webster

1882 A. A. Milne

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“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but 'That's funny...”

— Isaac Asimov

Birthdays:

1736 James Watt 

1809 Edgar Allan Poe

1813 Henry Bessemer

1832 Ferdinand Laub: Polonaise

1839 Paul Cézanne

Miscellany:

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“This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself."

— Robert G. Ingersoll

Birthdays:

1586 Johann Hermann Schein:  Galliard from Suite X [a5], and Christ Lag in Todes Banden

1681 Francesco Bartolomeo Conti: Pie Jesu, and Languet anima mea, and "Il martirio di San Lorenzo"

1884 A. Merritt

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