#greatsanddunes — Public Fediverse posts
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I have what passes for an education, but I am not deceived by it.
-- Flannery O'Connor -
I have what passes for an education, but I am not deceived by it.
-- Flannery O'Connor -
You aren't a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes.
-- John Wooten -
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
-- Buddha -
Instead of viewing their mission as teaching WHAT to read and HOW to think, universities in America today view their mission as teaching students HOW to read and WHAT to think.
-- Nicholas A. Christakis (@nachristakis) -
Sands can be amazingly beautiful. This is Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado.
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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.
-- Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #CoryDoctorow #Enshitification #Systems #Technology
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I exist as I am, that is enough.
-- Walt Whitman -
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
-- Confucius -
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
-- Swedish Proverb -
Discover Great Sand Dunes National Park in this lively animated explainer! Join Ali, Sulaiman & Adrijan as they sketch geology, ecology, and must-see spots - perfect for curious travelers and nature lovers. #GreatSandDunes #NationalParks #Geology #Nature #Travel #Education #Animation #English
https://peertube.mdg-hamburg.de/videos/watch/165a5d87-ff97-4552-bf0a-40900f9718b4 -
The love of money as a possession -- as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life -- will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease.
-- John Maynard Keynes -
Microsoft has given this [Internet Explorer] vulnerability a maximum severity rating of 'moderate'. Great, so arbitrary command execution, local file reading and complete system compromise is now only moderately severe, according to Microsoft.
-- Thor Larholm (security researcher)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ThorLarholm #Computer #Microsoft #Security #Web
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You teach kids how to succeed when they successfully foil the educational system.
-- Arlo Guthrie -
Sometimes reading supplies the most cunning of all means of avoiding thought.
-- Joseph Epstein -
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
-- Albert Einstein -
Not all who wander are lost.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'
-- Isaac Asimov⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #IsaacAsimov #AntiIntellectualism #Democracy #Ignorance #Knowledge #Politics
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If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.
-- Lao Tzu⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #LaoTzu #Anxiety #Depression #Peace #TheFuture #ThePast
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If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.
-- Lao Tzu⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #LaoTzu #Anxiety #Depression #Peace #TheFuture #ThePast
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If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.
-- Lao Tzu⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #LaoTzu #Anxiety #Depression #Peace #TheFuture #ThePast
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If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.
-- Lao Tzu⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #LaoTzu #Anxiety #Depression #Peace #TheFuture #ThePast
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If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.
-- Lao Tzu⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #LaoTzu #Anxiety #Depression #Peace #TheFuture #ThePast
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If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
-- Emile Herzog ((aka Andre Maurois)) -
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
-- Christopher Morley⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ChristopherMorley #Intellectuals #Life #Humor
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When possible, refer all matters to committees.
-- Simple Sabotage Field Manual (Declassified by the CIA in 2008)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #SimpleSabotageFieldManual #Committees #Sabotage
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When possible, refer all matters to committees.
-- Simple Sabotage Field Manual (Declassified by the CIA in 2008)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #SimpleSabotageFieldManual #Committees #Sabotage
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When possible, refer all matters to committees.
-- Simple Sabotage Field Manual (Declassified by the CIA in 2008)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #SimpleSabotageFieldManual #Committees #Sabotage
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When possible, refer all matters to committees.
-- Simple Sabotage Field Manual (Declassified by the CIA in 2008)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #SimpleSabotageFieldManual #Committees #Sabotage
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When possible, refer all matters to committees.
-- Simple Sabotage Field Manual (Declassified by the CIA in 2008)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #SimpleSabotageFieldManual #Committees #Sabotage
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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
-- Soren Kierkegaard -
I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? "No," said the priest, "not if you did not know." "Then why," asked the Eskimo earnestly, "did you tell me?"
-- Annie Dillard -
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley -
The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey -
Doctors are men who prescribe medicine of which they know little to cure diseases of which they know less in human beings of which they know nothing.
-- Voltaire -
The final mystery is oneself.
-- Oscar Wilde -
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
-- H. G. Wells -
The most important thing to remember is this: To be ready at any moment to give up what you are for what you might become.
-- W. E. B. Du Bois -
The most important thing to remember is this: To be ready at any moment to give up what you are for what you might become.
-- W. E. B. Du Bois -
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
-- John Muir -
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
-- Saint Augustine -
Competence is a state of controlled incompetence.
-- Ronald Epstein