Thought for the Day...

“Are your minds working to complain? Or, are your minds working to solve the problem?"

— Hotep Jesus

Birthdays:

772 Bai Juyi [Po Tjiu-i]

1445 Sandro Botticelli

1494 Il Bacchiacca [Franceso Ubertini]

1810 Frédéric Chopin: Fantaisie Impromptu in C sharp minor, Op 66

1817 Giovanni Duprè

1842 Nicholaos Gysis

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana

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“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."

— P. J. O'Rourke

Birthdays:

1824 Bedřich Smetana: Vltava (The Moldau)

1859 Sholem Aleichem

1900 Kurt Weill: Tango Ballade

1904 Dr. Seuss

1926 Murray Rothbard

1931 Tom Wolfe

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“It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a ‘dismal science.’ But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance."

— Murray N. Rothbard

Birthdays:

1831 George Pullman

1845 Georg Cantor 

1847 Alexander Graham Bell

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“People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth."

— Thomas Sowell

Birthdays:

1492 Francesco de Layolle: Ave Maria, and Les bourguignons

1602 Kanō Tan'yÅ« 

1756 Henry Raeburn

1678 Antonio Vivaldi: Vivaldi Four Seasons: Winter (L'Inverno)

1877 Garrett Morgan

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Thought for the day:

“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."

— George Bernard Shaw

Birthdays:

1574 William Oughtred

1637 Jan van der Heyden

1696 Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

1751 Jan KÅ™titel KuchaÅ™: Symfonie g moll (17:57)

1910 Momofuku Ando

1934 Daniel Kahneman

1955 Penn Jillette

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“He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them."

— Ludwig Von Mises

Birthdays:

1475 Michelangelo

1793 Bernhard Joseph Klein: Der Herr ist mein Hirt

1806 Elizabeth Barrett Browning

1857 George Dayton

1926 Alan Greenspan

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“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution. "

— Kahlil Gibran

Birthdays:

1481 Baldassare Peruzzi

1574 John Wilbye: Adieu, sweet Amaryllis

1621 Georg Neumark: Nein bin ich denn darüm zu schmähen, and Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten

1663 Tomaso Antonio Vitali: Chaconne

1765 Nicéphore Niépce

1792 John Herschel 

1846 Whitcomb Judson

1849 Luther Burbank

1875 Maurice Ravel: La Valse

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Thought for the day:

“I’ve got a hunk of gold and you have a watch. If we trade, then I have a watch and you have a hunk of gold. But if you have an idea and I have an idea, and we exchange them, then we both have two ideas. It’s nonzero."

— Peter H. Diamandis

Birthdays:

1560 Don Carlo Gesualdo: Tenebrae Factae Sunt, and O Vos Omnes

1714 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Fantasia F sharp minor H 300, and La Complaisante, H.109

1822 Ignacy Łukasiewicz 

1839 Josephine Cochrane 

1857 Ruggero L...

Thought for the day:

“The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood."

— Voltaire

Birthdays:

1737 Josef Mysliveček: Sonate D Dur, and Notturno ii, and Flute Concerto. i.

1910 Samuel Barber

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“It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual."

— Alexander Fleming

Birthdays:

1749 Lorenzo Da Ponte

1755 Philipp Christoph Kayser

1787 William Etty

1844 Pablo de Sarasate: Malaguena Op.21, and Zigeunerweisen Op.20

1876 Edvard Eriksen

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"The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error."

— John...

Thought for the day:

"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor: he took my measure anew every time he saw me, whilst all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me."

— George Bernard Shaw

Birthdays:

1515 Caspar Othmayr: Hüt Du Dich

1788 Pierre-Jean David d'Angers

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ARMENAKI - Greek Song 

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Thought for the day:

It is easier to seize wealth than to produce it, and as long as the State makes the seizure of wealth a matter of legalized privilege, so long will the squabble for that privilege go on."

— Albert Jay Nock

Birthdays:

1811 Camille Marie Stamaty: Douze esquisses Op.17 No.9, and Les Masques, Op. 39 No. 10, and Grande Sonate Op.20 Mov.2 Andante semplice pf.

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Thought for the day:

"Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars."

— Carl Sagan

Birthdays:

1692 Pieter Musschenbroek

1727 Johann Gottlieb Goldberg: Concerto for Harpsichord and Orchestra in D minor (9:48)

1755 Pierre-Louis Couperin: Suite in D major (6:54)

1804 Johann Strauss the Elder: Radetzky March (7:07)

1879 Albert Einstein

Thought for the day:

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."

— Albert Einstein

Birthdays:

1813 John Snow

1821 Johann Josef Loschmidt

1838 Karl Davydov: At the Fountain

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Thought for the day:

"I have never understood why it is ‘greed’ to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money."

— Thomas Sowell

Birthdays:

1663 Nicolas Siret: Chaconne in a minor

1789 Georg Ohm

1799 Anna Atkins

1836 Andrew Smith Hallidie

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Thought for the day:

"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think"

— Socrates

Birthdays:

1578 Francesco Albana

1655 Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre: Sonata #2 in B-flat (9:28)

1948 William Gibson 

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"Good ideas don't require force — this simple phrase compacts centuries of philosophy into one powerful concept: if your idea requires forcing peaceful people into compliance, then it is not a good idea. it doesn't matter what outcome you are trying to achieve; the ends do not justify the means."

— Sarah Perry

Birthdays:

1578 Adam Elsheimer

1756 Johann Christoph Vogel: La Toison d'Or

1844 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: The Rose and the Nightingale

1858 Rudolf...

Thought for the day:

"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."

— Will Durant

Birthdays:

1593 Georges de la Tour

1601 Alonzo Cano

1668 Francesco Gasparini: Caro laccio, dolce nodo

1728 Pieter-Jozef Verhaghen

1873 Max Reger: Gloria in excelsis op.59

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Thought for the day:

"Writing has taught me a lot - though far from everything - about writing, so as time has passed, it has become more pleasurable if not easier. I've done other things in life, but writing is by a factor of 10 the most difficult among them. And, of course, you never achieve what you set out to achieve, so you must keep on trying to do better."  — Charles McCarry
 

Birthdays:

43 BC Ovid

1811 George Caleb Bingham

1828 Henrik Ibsen

1836 Edward Poynter

1840 Illarion...