Play is our brain's favorite way of learning.
-- Diane Ackerman
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #DianeAckerman #Education #Learning #Play
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#canyonlands — Public Fediverse posts
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The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
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To the extent that health care becomes a commodity it becomes distributed just like champagne. That is rich people get lots of it. Poor people don’t get any of it.
-- Julian Tudor Hart (Inverse Care Law)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JulianTudorHart #Commoditization #Healthcare #Inequality
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Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Jerome Cummings⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JeromeCummings #Love
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RobertFrost #Education
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Motorized vehicles create remoteness which they alone can shrink. They create distances for all, and shrink them for only a few.
-- Ivan Illich⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #IvanIllich #Cars #Society #Technology
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The raw materials for breakthrough technologies will come in unexpected forms -- the people, the ideas, and the objects will come dressed in other uses, other meanings, and other relationships. Untangling these existing resources from their current context and putting them together in new ways requires thinking by analogy. It means constantly asking how things are the same. It's easy to point out how things are different; we do it every day in order to decide where to focus our attention and energy. Who we talk to and who we do not, which articles we read and which we ignore -- these are difference-driven choices. And difference-driven choices are, by nature, defensive.
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When I arise in the morning, I am torn by the twin desires to reform the world and to enjoy the world. This makes it difficult to plan my day.
-- T. S. Eliot⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #TSEliot #Reform #TheWorld
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Invisibility is freedom.... If anyone comes sniffing around and wonders if this Internet stuff could be maybe dangerous, culturally subversive, it's oh, hey, never mind us. We're just goofing off here on the Web. No threat. Carry on. As you were. -- But we aren't just goofing off. We're organizing: building and extending the Net itself, crafting tools and communities, new ways of speaking, new ways of working, new ways of having fun. And all this is happening, has happened so far, without rules and laws, without managers and managed. It's self-organizing. People by the millions are discovering how to negotiate, cooperate, collaborate -- to create, to explore, to enjoy ourselves.
-- Christopher Locke⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ChristopherLocke #Invisibility
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All ideologies end up killing people. If you separate love from non-violence you turn non-violence into an ideology, a gimmick. Structures that are not inhabited by justice and love have no liberating or reconciling force, and are never sources of life.
-- Jean Goss⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JeanGoss #Ideology #Justice #NonViolence
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The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.
-- George Orwell⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GeorgeOrwell #Society #Truth
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Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
-- John F. Kennedy⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JohnFKennedy #Action #Events
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The simpler the solution the more powerful it is.
-- I. M. Pei⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #IMPei #Simplicity
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Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
-- William Shakespeare (Macbeth)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #WilliamShakespeare #Death #Life
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River Vista
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It’s almost impossible to predict the future. But it’s also unnecessary, because most people are living in the past. All you have to do is see the present before everyone else does.
-- Anonymous -
Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller -
Our happiness doesn't depend on somebody else's action or on anything else. It doesn't depend on our success, but rather on the effort we're willing to put into everything we do. Even if people disappoint or fail us left and right, even if people turn against us, hurt us, lie about us, don't understand us, even if they think they know everything about us and judge us unfairly, they can't infringe upon our happiness. True happiness means that we have a deep-seated peace and tranquility that transcends all the difficulties of life, that cannot be disturbed by the chaos and warfare that might touch our lives.
-- The Monks of New Skete -
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
-- Scott Frey⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ScottFrey #Computers
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
-- Thomas Carlyle⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ThomasCarlyle #Books #Reading #Professors
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Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
-- Edward Abbey (1977)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #EdwardAbbey #Capitalism #Growth
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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
-- General George Patton⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GeneralGeorgePatton #Leadership
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Everything is practice.
-- Pele⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #Pele #Practice
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One of the greatest problems in medicine is the collusion between academics seeking money and industry in search of a plausible narrative for selling products. ...The role of academe is to question lucrative dogma, not to join the feeding frenzy.
-- Richard Lehman⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RichardLehman #Academia #Dogma #Medicine #Science
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Erosion defines the shapes within Canyonlands National Park.
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The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.
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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
-- Will Durant -
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
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Needles Eye Tunnel
Needles Highway
Custer State Park, South Dakota USAPhoto ©Mary Nelson, 2026
Needles Eye Tunnel is 8' 0" wide by 9’9" high. We drove through this tunnel during a light snow shower and waited until it cleared to take photos.
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Another perspective from
Grand View Overlook
Snow-covered La Sal Mountains in the background
Canyonlands National Park, Utah USA"Man waving from a rocky precipice"
April, 2026
Photo ©Mary Nelson, 2026
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Grand View Overlook
Canyonlands National Park, Utah USAApril, 2026
Photo ©Mary Nelson, 20262/n
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Life is short. And we do not have much time to gladden the hearts of those who travel the way with us. So, be swift to love, and make haste to be kind.
-- Henri Amiel (1868) -
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
-- Elbert Hubbard⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ElbertHubbard #Silence #Understanding
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The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
-- Albert Einstein -
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
-- Winston Churchill -
The object-oriented version of spaghetti code is, of course, 'lasagna code'. Too many layers.
-- Roberto Waltman
