#lavaflow — Public Fediverse posts
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify... into every corner of our minds.
-- John Maynard Keynes -
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify... into every corner of our minds.
-- John Maynard Keynes -
Capitalism and democracy do not necessarily go hand in hand. ... Perhaps the greatest threat to freedom and democracy in the world today comes from the formation of unholy alliances between government and business.
-- George Soros -
Capitalism and democracy do not necessarily go hand in hand. ... Perhaps the greatest threat to freedom and democracy in the world today comes from the formation of unholy alliances between government and business.
-- George Soros -
Kīlauea Episode 50 Building — USGS Raises Alert to Watch https://www.hawaii-guide.com/blog/kilauea-episode-50-precursory-activity?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Kilauea #VolcanoAlert #Hawaii #LavaFlow #Geology
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Kīlauea Episode 50 Building — USGS Raises Alert to Watch https://www.hawaii-guide.com/blog/kilauea-episode-50-precursory-activity?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Kilauea #VolcanoAlert #Hawaii #LavaFlow #Geology
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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
-- Robert Frost -
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
-- Robert Frost -
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- Oscar Wilde -
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- Oscar Wilde -
The hard part isn't solving problems, but deciding what problems to solve.
-- Paul Graham -
The hard part isn't solving problems, but deciding what problems to solve.
-- Paul Graham -
One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes -
One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes -
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people -- that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
-- James Thurber -
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people -- that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
-- James Thurber -
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language... Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
-- Benjamin Whorf -
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language... Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
-- Benjamin Whorf -
Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
-- Goethe -
Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
-- Goethe -
People are asking me about the race problem.... I know of no race problem. The great problem that confronts the American people to-day is a national problem -- whether this great nation of ours is great enough to live up to its own convictions, carry out its own declaration of independence, and execute the provisions of its own constitution.
-- Frederick Douglass (1893)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #FrederickDouglass #Americans #Racism #USConstitution
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People are asking me about the race problem.... I know of no race problem. The great problem that confronts the American people to-day is a national problem -- whether this great nation of ours is great enough to live up to its own convictions, carry out its own declaration of independence, and execute the provisions of its own constitution.
-- Frederick Douglass (1893)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #FrederickDouglass #Americans #Racism #USConstitution
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It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry S. Truman -
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry S. Truman -
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
-- Samuel Johnson (1775) -
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
-- Samuel Johnson (1775) -
If a system has to be explained to people, that's a clue that its design is driven by what you "know" rather than by what people immediately recognize as useful.
-- Peter Coffee (eWeek (May 2005)) -
If a system has to be explained to people, that's a clue that its design is driven by what you "know" rather than by what people immediately recognize as useful.
-- Peter Coffee (eWeek (May 2005)) -
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly -- or it vanishes.
-- Peter Drucker -
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly -- or it vanishes.
-- Peter Drucker -
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
-- Jonathan Swift -
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
-- Jonathan Swift -
We can still read words on papyrus; we don't know how long it will be possible to read a text inscribed in a 2004 CD. This is not a complaint, just a reminder.
-- Alberto Manguel -
We can still read words on papyrus; we don't know how long it will be possible to read a text inscribed in a 2004 CD. This is not a complaint, just a reminder.
-- Alberto Manguel -
Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #HJacksonBrownJr #Opportunity #Life #Success
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Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #HJacksonBrownJr #Opportunity #Life #Success
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Kīlauea Episode 45: Precursory Activity Begins at Halemaʻumaʻu https://www.hawaii-guide.com/blog/kilauea-episode-45-precursory-activity?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Kilauea #HawaiiVolcanoes #BigIsland #LavaFlow #Halemaumau
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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
-- Peter Drucker -
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
-- Peter Drucker -
If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
-- Charles Darwin (Voyage of the Beagle) -
If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
-- Charles Darwin (Voyage of the Beagle) -
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RainerMariaRilke #Answers #Life #Questions
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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RainerMariaRilke #Answers #Life #Questions
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It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.
-- Thomas H. Huxley -
It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.
-- Thomas H. Huxley -
It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
-- Umberto Eco -
It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
-- Umberto Eco -
Kīpuka == clearing in a lava flow where original vegetation grows.
#hawaiianWordOfTheDay #lavaFlow #volcano #lava #learnHawaiian #hawaiian -
Kīpuka == clearing in a lava flow where original vegetation grows.
#hawaiianWordOfTheDay #lavaFlow #volcano #lava #learnHawaiian #hawaiian -
Donald Trump is the Payload of a Russian Cyberweapon.
-- Timothy Snyder (The Road to Unfreedom) -
Donald Trump is the Payload of a Russian Cyberweapon.
-- Timothy Snyder (The Road to Unfreedom) -
The remains of flowing lava, John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Oregon
#Photography #LavaFlow #BasaltColumn #PictureGorge #JohnDayOregon #Oregon -
The remains of flowing lava, John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Oregon
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
-- Upton Sinclair⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #UptonSinclair #Employment #Ignorance #Knowledge #Understanding
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
-- Upton Sinclair⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #UptonSinclair #Employment #Ignorance #Knowledge #Understanding
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
-- Galileo Galilei -
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
-- Galileo Galilei -
The goal of security systems is the most security for the least amount of trade-offs. The way to do that is to make the party who is best able to mitigate the risk responsible for the risk.
-- Bruce Schneier