Tony's Garden

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.” — F.A. Hayek BIRTHDAYS: 1697 Jean-Marie Leclair l’aîné, French violinist and Baroque composer. A2 Allegro（Third movement from Sonata in B minor, Op.5 No.5, and Violin Sonata no.3 in D Major, and Sarabande et tambourin (3d sonata from the 4th book of sonatas for violin and basso…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.” — G.K. Chesterton BIRTHDAYS: 1265 Dante Alighieri, Italian poet and author (Dante’s Inferno, Divina Commedia). 1829 Ciro Pinsuti, Italian pianist and composer, born in Sinalunga, Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Sonetto di Dante. 1850 Edward Weston, English-born American electrical engineer and…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.” — Friedrich August von Hayek BIRTHDAYS: 1737 Edward Gibbon,…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “To give a person an opinion one must first judge well whether that person is of the disposition to receive it or not.” — Yamamoto Tsunetomo BIRTHDAYS: 1711 David Hume, Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, widely regarded as one of the most important figures of the Scottish Enlightenment and one…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The characteristic note of our time is the dire truth that, the mediocre soul, the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be mediocre, has the gall to assert its right to mediocrity, and goes on to impose itself where it can.” — Jose Ortega y Gasset BIRTHDAYS: 1581 Frans Francken the Younger,…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.” — Elbert Hubbard BIRTHDAYS: 1680 Giuseppe Porsile, Neapolitan composer, born in Naples, Kingdom of Naples, Spanish Empire. Posa sopra d`un faggio 1903 – James Beard, American culinary expert, author, and writer (influential cookbook author). MISCELLANEOUS: COMPETITION IS GOOD. Other Pipelines and Projects…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “If people don’t think they have the power to solve their problems, they won’t even think about how to solve them.” — Saul Alinsky BIRTHDAYS: 1826 Frederick Edwin Church, American painter (Hudson River School landscape artist). 1905 Mátyás Seiber, Hungarian-British composer (classical and jazz). Four French Folk Songs 1907 Lincoln Kirstein,…