November 2, 2022
QUOTE
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.
We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
--All from George Bernard Shaw
BIRTHDAYS
1734 – Daniel Boone, Hunter and explorer
1755 – Marie Antoinette, Austrian-French queen consort of Louis XVI of France
1795 – James K. Polk, Lawyer and politician, 11th President of the United States
1865 – Warren G. Harding, Journalist and politician, 29th President of the United States
1913 – Burt Lancaster, Actor
IN MEMORY
1950 – George Bernard Shaw, Irish author, playwright, and critic, Nobel Prize laureate
1961 – James Thurber, Humorist and cartoonist
1981 – Wally Wood, Author, illustrator, and publisher
1992 – Hal Roach, Actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
2007 – The Fabulous Moolah, Wrestler
IN ON THIS DAY
1889 – North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
1920 – In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the 1920 United States presidential election.
1936 – The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world’s first regular, “high-definition” (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.
1947 – In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Hughes H-4 Hercules (also known as the “Spruce Goose”), the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.
1960 – Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd, the Lady Chatterley’s Lover case.
2016 – The Chicago Cubs defeat the Cleveland Indians in the World Series, ending the longest Major League Baseball championship drought at 108 years.