Tony's Garden

”Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.” — Frederick Douglas BIRTHDAYS: 1636 Esaias Reusner, German lutenist and composer. Allemanda a-moll ze zbioru Neue Lauten-Früchte. 1863 William Randolph Hearst, American newspaper publisher and politician who developed…

”A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.” — Karl Kraus BIRTHDAYS: 1874 Karl Kraus, Austrian writer and journalist, known as a satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright and poet. He directed his satire at the press, German culture, and German and Austrian politics. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize…

”Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one’s imagination – perhaps more importantly – creativity is the power to act.” — Ai Weiwei BIRTHDAYS: 1623 Johann Adam Reincken, German organist and composer. Fuga in sol minore, and Toccata in…

Richard Mitchell 1929 – 2002 ”Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.” — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations BIRTHDAYS: 161 Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor from 161 to 180 and a Stoic philosopher. 1785 John James Audubon, French-American…

”Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” — H. L. Mencken BIRTHDAYS: 1614 Marc’Antonio Pasqualini, Italian composer. “Perche dolce bambino” 1677 Guillaume Coustou Sr, French sculptor (Chevaux the Marly) 1690 Gottlieb Theophil Muffat, German composer. Toccata prima et due Fugae in d, and Fugue in g minor, and Rigaudon in F Major…

”Words never fail. We hear them, we read them; they enter into the mind and become part of us for as long as we shall live. Who speaks reason to his fellowmen bestows it upon them. Who mouths inanity disorders thought for all who listen. There must be some minimum allowable dose of inanity beyond…

”What is progress? You might think that the question is so subjective and culturally relative as to be forever unanswerable. In fact, it’s one of the easier questions to answer. Most people agree that life is better than death. Health is better than sickness. Sustenance is better than hunger. Abundance is better than poverty. Peace…