Thought for the Day...

“In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors."

— William Blake

Birthdays:

1550 John Napier

1690 Francesco Maria Veracini: Ouverture n.6 in sol min., and Sonata in Sol minore op.5, n.1 (18:46)

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Thought for the Day...

“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours."

— Ayn Rand

Birthdays:

1669 Louis Marchand: Plein Jeu et Tierce en Taille, and Suite e...

Thought for the Day...

“The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation."

— Lenin

Birthdays:

1525 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Exultate Deo 

1809 Felix Mendelssohn: Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 14

1920 Henry Heimlich

Miscellany:

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IN CASE YOU WONDERED...

Thought for the Day...

“The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own."

— Betty Friedan

Birthdays:

1677 Johann Ludwig Bach: “Das ist meine Freude“

1913 Rosa Parks

1921 Betty Friedan

1943 Ken Thompson

Miscellany:

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I'M ALSO...

Thought for the Day...

“The claim "hate speech is not free speech" implies "free" is a type of speech, as opposed to how speech is treated in a free society."

— Michael Malice

Birthdays:

1748 Christian Gottlob Neefe: Minuetto, and Sonata No. 1 (3:38)

1808 Carl Spitzweg

1840 John Boyd Dunlop

1862 Felipe Villanueva y Gutierrez: Vals poético

1943 Nolan Bushnell

Miscellany:

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Thought for the Day...

“We are ready to accept almost any explanation of the present crisis of our civilization except one: that the present state of the world may be the result of genuine error on our own part and that the pursuit of some of our most cherished ideals has apparently produced results utterly different from those which we expected."

— Friedrich A. von Hayek

Birthdays:

1695 Andre Cheron: Passacaille

1802 Charles Wheatstone

1913 Mary Leakey

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Thought for the Day...

“Science is supposed to be challenged, questioned, tested, and scrutinized. That's the entire point. If that is not permissible and basic lines of inquiry are censored or taboo, then it's not science, but secular dogma."

— Zuby

Birthdays:

1478 Thomas More

1804 John Deere

1812 Charles Dickens

1822 Joaquin Gaztambide: Paso la noche

1823 Richard Genee: Insalata italiana

1825 Cristóbal Oudrid: The Zaragoza site of the Lombian drama, and El postillon de la...

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“In the capacities of mankind there are three degrees: one man understands things by means of his own natural endowments; another understands things when they are explained to him; and a third can neither understand them of himself, nor when they are explained by others."

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Birthdays:

1828 Jules Verne

1834 Dmitri Mendeleev

1906 Chester Carlson

1612 Samuel Butler

1741 André Grétry: La Fauvette (from Zémire and Azor), and Tandis que...

Thought for the Day...

“Adapt your style, if you wish, to admit the color of slang or freshness of neologism, but hang tough on clarity, precision, structure, grace."

— William Safire

Birthdays:

1741 Henri-Joseph Rigel: Symphony no.14 mov.1

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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:

1702 Jean-Pierre Guignon: Les Sauvages, and 2 Allegros from op.2, no.6 & 5

1717 Pierre de La Garde: La Sonate

1795 Ary Scheffer

1870 Fritz Klimsch

1898 Bertolt Brecht

1904 Boris Pasternak

1927 Leontyne Price: "Libera me" Verdi-Requiem (13:13)

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“There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future will reveal its merits."

— Hannah Arendt

Birthdays:

1755 Albert Christoph Dies

1790 Ignaz Assmayer: Diabelli Variation

1810 Loisa Puget: Le reÌ‚ve de Marie, and le postillon de Séville

1847 Thomas Edison

1900 Leó Szilárd 

Miscellany:

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Thought for the Day...

“The old aren't really smarter than the young in terms of sheer brainpower. It's just that we've already made the kinds of mistakes that the young are about to make and we've already suffered the consequences the young are going to suffer if they disregard the record of the past."

— Thomas Sowell

Birthdays:

1567 Thomas Campion: Fain would I wed, and Author of Light, and What if a Day, or a month, or a year, and My Love Hath Vowed, and "Amarillis", and The...

Thought for the Day...

“People do not lack strength, they lack will."

— Victor Hugo

Birthdays:

1682 Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

1820 Béla Kéler: Czardas, Op.31

Miscellany:

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Thought for the Day...

“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong."

— Voltaire

Birthdays:

1513 Domenico Maria Ferrabosco: Io Mi Son Giovinetta 

1602 Pier Francesco Cavalli: from the opera Elena (excerpt), and from the opera La Rosinda

1778 Fernando Sor: Estudio Nº 17, and Galopa, and Etude in Bm

1804 Otis Tufts

1817 Frederick Douglass

1917 Herbert A. Hauptman

1948 Teller

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Thought for the Day...

“Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences."

—  Susan B. Anthony

Birthdays:

1557 Alfonso Fontanelli:...

Thought for the Day...

“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual."

— Galileo

Birthdays:

1813 Semyon Stepanovich Gulak-Artemovsky: Oksana's Aria

1847 Philipp Scharwenka: Polish Dance OP 3 No 1

Miscellany:

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Thought for the Day...

“Error is the price we pay for progress."

— Alfred North Whitehead

Birthdays:

1653 Arcangelo Corelli: Sonata a Quattro, and Sonata op. 3 n. 8, and Sonata no 12 op. 5 "La Follia"

1699 Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff

1820 Henri Vieuxtemps: "La Sentimentale" (14:43)

1874 Thomas J. Watson

1912 Andre Norton

Miscellany:

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Thought for the Day...

“True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it."

— Karl R. Popper

Birthdays:

1201 Nasir al-Din al-Tusi

1632 Giovanni Battista Vitali: Passa Galli, and Capritio sopra otto figure on baroque cello

1745  Alessandro Volta

1815 Jan August Hendrik Leys

1857 Max Klinger

1860 Anders Zorn

1871 Harry Brearley

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Thought for the Day...

“It was well known that Madame Danilova, the famous teacher and former ballerina with the Ballet Russe, had a phrase that she would always repeat whenever anyone gushed to her about the performance of a danseur. The phrase was, "Yes, but I saw Nijinsky." So one night, Madame came to see the Nijinsky program, the homage to the Ballet Russe with Nureyev and the Joffrey Ballet. Afterward, she went backstage where she was received with utmost respect by Nureyev....

Thought for the Day...

“The original purpose of the welfare state was to lift people into self-sufficiency, not to create a permanent underclass dependent on taxpayers."

— Stephen Moore

Birthdays:

1745 Johann Peter Salomon: Romance for violin and strings in D major

1791 Carl Czerny: Fantasia concertante for piano, flute and cello op 256 (14:50)

1902 Ansel Adams

1912 Pierre Boulle

Miscellany:

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