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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Only a very small number of people are truly evil. But a very large number of people are conformists. To prevent evil on a mass scale it’s more important for us to ward against our own instinct to conform with the crowd than it is to worry about anything else.” —…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair…the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it, and by the same token save it from that ruin which except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and the young, would be inevitable. And education, too, is where…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The shame of speaking unskilfully were small if the tongue onely were thereby disgrac’d: But as the Image of a King in his Seale ill-represented is not so much a blemish to the waxe, or the Signet that seat’d it, as to the Prince it representeth, so disordered speech is not…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.” — Richard P. Feynman BIRTHDAYS: 1819: Gustave Courbet, French realist painter. 1832 Nicolaus Otto, German engineer who successfully developed the compressed charge internal combustion engine which ran on petroleum gas and led to the modern internal…

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.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe BIRTHDAYS: 1588 Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer and Baroque music theorist. Also spricht der Höhe, and…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “There are no dangerous thoughts for the simple reason that thinking itself is such a dangerous enterprise…” — Hannah Arendt BIRTHDAYS: 1625 Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-French mathematician, astronomer, and engineer (discovered four of Saturn’s moons). 1671 Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (Adagio in G-minor). Adagio 1810 Robert Schumann, German pianist, composer, and…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Is the man, for example, engaged in the mass-production of lavatory cisterns encouraged to bring to his daily monotonous toil the vision splendid of an increasingly hygienic world? I doubt it; yet there is much merit in sanitary plumbing—more, if you come to think of it, than there is in warfare.…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” — Thomas Mann BIRTHDAYS: 1599 Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (Las Meninas). 1606 Pierre Corneille, French poet and dramatist (El Cid). 1625 Domenico Guidi, Italian sculptor. 1661 Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer. Dixit Dominus a 8…