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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The most serious problem of the welfare state is not its cost, but its effect on the character of the people. It tends to destroy the sense of individual responsibility and the willingness of individuals to help one another.” — Milton Friedman BIRTHDAYS: 1605 Giacomo Carissimi, Italian organist, choral director, composer…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.” — Clarence Thomas BIRTHDAYS: 1587 Ivan Lukačić, Croatian composer. Quam pulchra es 1683 Johann David Heinichen, German Baroque composer and music theorist. Concerto in F, SeiH. 233 MISCELLANEOUS: A CLOSE CALL (TOO CLOSE). On this day in space: April 17, 1970:…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The best dividends on labor invested have invariably come from seeking more knowledge rather than more power.” — Wilbur Wright BIRTHDAYS: 1635 Frans van Mieris the Elder, Dutch painter. 1673 Francesco Feroci, Italian composer. Pro Elevazione, and Fuga in Do maggiore 1755 Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, French painter. 1821 Ford Madox…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.” — Arnold Toynbee BIRTHDAYS: 1452 Leonardo da Vinci, Italian polymath of the High…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.” — Thomas Jefferson BIRTHDAYS: 1629 Christiaan Huygens, prominent Dutch natural philosopher, mathematician, astronomer, and inventor whose groundbreaking work advanced the fields of optics, mechanics,…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn’t roar?” — Friedrich Schiller BIRTHDAYS: 1743 Thomas Jefferson, “Author of the Declaration of American Independence and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia”. 1769 Thomas Lawrence, English portrait painter. 1771 Richard Trevithick, English inventor…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” — Aldous Huxley BIRTHDAYS: 1716 Felice Giardini, Italian composer, born in Turin, Duchy of Savoy. Quartett Nr.3, op. 25 in D-Dur. 1722 Pietro Nardini, Italian violinist and composer, born in Livorno, Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Violin Sonata No. 4…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.” — C.S. Lewis BIRTHDAYS: 1661 Antoine Coypel, French painter and poet 1681 Anne Danican Philidor, French composer. Le Badin (Deuxieme Livre de Pieces), and Le Tombeau (Deuxieme Livre de…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.” — Henry David Thoreau BIRTHDAYS: 1707 Michael Corrette, French organist (Church of Sainte-Marie du Temple – Paris, 1737-91), composer, and educator. Serpent – Sonata n°1 Op.20 MISCELLANEOUS: THEY’RE BACK! Splashdown! Artemis…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.” — Marcus Aurelius BIRTHDAYS: 1598 Johann Crüger [Jan Krygar], Sorbian-German cantor, hymn composer, editor (Praxis pietatis melica), and educator, born in Groß Breesen, Kingdom of Bohemia. Wie schöne leucht der Morgenstern 1627 Johann Kaspar Kerll, German composer, born…