Tony's Garden

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “There is in the garden a plant which one ought to leave dry, although most people water it. It is the weed called Envy.” — Cosimo de’ Medici BIRTHDAYS: 1585 Heinrich Schütz, German Baroque organist and composer, baptized in Köstritz, Imperial County of Reuss, Holy Roman Empire. Nicht uns, Herr, and…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even specially, the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities.” — Allan Bloom BIRTHDAYS: 1551…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.” — Benedict de Spinoza BIRTHDAYS: 1698 Henri Madin, French composer. Motet pour l’Assomption. 1885 Niels Bohr, Danish theoretical physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.” — Aldous Huxley BIRTHDAYS: 1618 Miguel Gómez Camargo, Spanish baroque composer. “Un portugués y un gallego” 1846 George Westinghouse, prolific American inventor, engineer, and entrepreneurial industrialist based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 1903 Ernest…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill… we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.” — Plato BIRTHDAYS: 1590 Johann Schop, German composer and violinist, born in Niedersachsen,…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.” — Christopher Hitchens BIRTHDAYS: 1515 Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter. 1528 Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer. A un niño llorando al hielo, and Los reyes siguen la estrella, and Trahe me post te 1657 Francesco Solimena, Italian painter. 1861…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON’T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.” — Groucho Marx BIRTHDAYS: 1839 Hans Thoma, German painter. 1852 William Ramsay, Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The more the state “plans” the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.” — Friedrich Hayek BIRTHDAYS: 1724 Giovanni Battista Cirri, Italian cellist and composer, born in Forlì, Emilia-Romagna Papal States. Trio Op. 18 n. 2, Largo, and Dúo Op. 1 Nº 3 (Allegro), and Duo in G-Dur, Op. 12, Nr.…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.” — Elie Wiesel BIRTHDAYS: 1928 Elie Wiesel, Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. 1622 Johann Sebastiani, German baroque composer,…