Tony's Garden

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.” ― George Bernard Shaw Birthdays: 1637 Giovanni Paulo Colonna, Italian composer,…

“At least once every human should have to run for his life, to teach him that milk does not come from supermarkets, that safety does not come from policemen, that ‘news’ is not something that happens to other people. He might learn how his ancestors lived and that he himself is no different–in the crunch…

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” ― Buckminster Fuller Birthdays: 1820 John Bartlett, American writer and publisher (compiled Familiar Quotations). 1903 Alonzo Church, American Mathematician, computer scientist, logician, and philosopher. 1930 Charles McCarry, American author. 1972 Matthias Ettrich, German computer…

“If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made…

“Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends.” ― Isabel Paterson Birthdays: 1468 Juan del Encina, Spanish author and composer. Pues…

“Neither can his mind be thought to be in tune, whose words do jarre; nor hisreason in frame, whose sentence is preposterous.” ― Ben Jonson Birthdays: 1572 Ben Jonson, English playwright and poet. 1672 Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and amateur composer. Concertini Op. 12, No. 6, and Serenata in A-Dur Op.12 No.6 1840 Henri…

“Karl Marx was right, socialism works, it is just that he had the wrong species.” ― Edward O. Wilson Birthdays: 1790 Joseph Daussoigne-Méhul, French composer. Final de la 1ère Symphonie. 1925 Nat Hentoff, American columnist and novelist. MISCELLANY: FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and…

“DON’T HURT PEOPLE, AND don’t take their stuff. That’s it, in a nutshell. Everyone should be free to live their lives as they think best, free from meddling by politicians and government bureaucrats, as long as they don’t hurt other people, or take other people’s stuff.” ― Matt Kibbe Birthdays: 1597 Pieter Jansz Saenredam, Dutch…

“Human beings… are far too prone to generalize from one instance. The technical word for this, interestingly enough, is superstition.” ― Francis Crick Birthdays: 1625 Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-French mathematician, astronomer and engineer. 1671 Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer. Adagio. 1810 Robert Schumann, German composer and pianist. Träumerei, from Kinderszenen No. 7, and Erstes Grün 1829…

“The state — or, to make matters more concrete, the government — consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to…