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Perhaps nothing government does, or will not stop doing, should be surprising in a country in which a Kansas bank was fined because it did not have Braille instructions on the ATM machines in its drive-through banking lanes.
-- George F. Will

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GeorgeFWill #Politics

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

All power corrupts, but some must govern.
-- John le Carré

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JohnleCarr #Government #Power

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

Sickness is dependent upon the blunders of society.
-- Pierre Cabanis (1890)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #PierreCabanis #Medicine #Society

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

Countless audiences passively soak in the tepid bath of nonsense. No mental effort is demanded of them, no participation; they need only sit and keep their eyes open.
-- Aldous Huxley

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Nonsense #Passivity #Television

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

Countless audiences passively soak in the tepid bath of nonsense. No mental effort is demanded of them, no participation; they need only sit and keep their eyes open.
-- Aldous Huxley

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Nonsense #Passivity #Television

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

Countless audiences passively soak in the tepid bath of nonsense. No mental effort is demanded of them, no participation; they need only sit and keep their eyes open.
-- Aldous Huxley

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Nonsense #Passivity #Television

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

Countless audiences passively soak in the tepid bath of nonsense. No mental effort is demanded of them, no participation; they need only sit and keep their eyes open.
-- Aldous Huxley

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Nonsense #Passivity #Television

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

Countless audiences passively soak in the tepid bath of nonsense. No mental effort is demanded of them, no participation; they need only sit and keep their eyes open.
-- Aldous Huxley

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Nonsense #Passivity #Television

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

There appear to be no integrating forces, no unified meaning, no true inner understanding of phenomena in our experience of the world. Experts can explain anything in the objective world to us, yet we understand our own lives less and less. In short, we live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.
-- Vaclav Havel

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #VaclavHavel #Existence #Meaning

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

Humor is just another defense against the universe.
-- Mel Brooks

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MelBrooks #Humor

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.
-- Kurt Vonnegut

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #KurtVonnegut #Television

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.
-- Kurt Vonnegut

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #KurtVonnegut #Television

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.
-- Kurt Vonnegut

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #KurtVonnegut #Television

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.
-- Kurt Vonnegut

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #KurtVonnegut #Television

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.
-- Kurt Vonnegut

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #KurtVonnegut #Television

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

Breathtaking photos of #AsianLandscapes and people by Weerapong Chaipuck: https://zorz.it/FEJTf

#Audra #Indonesia #LiRiver #Myanmar #NaturePhotography #Thailand #photos #WeerapongChaipuck #photographer

A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
-- Gian Vincenzo Gravina

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GianVincenzoGravina #Boorishness

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #WinstonChurchill #Giving #MakingaLiving #Life

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
-- Erich Fromm

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ErichFromm #HumanDestiny #TheFuture #ThePast

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

Experience with technology teaches us that once a technology makes something possible, it gets applied, whether for good or bad.
-- Donald Norman

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #DonaldNorman #Technology

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.
-- Thomas H. Huxley

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ThomasHHuxley #Agnosticism

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

Digital loafing can be exhausting precisely because it can be rewarding. And the moment it starts to reward, it ceases to be truly wasteful.
-- Jacob Brogan (Slate (Aug 25 2016))

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JacobBrogan #Internet #Web

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

I personally want to "do" death in the active and not the passive, and to be there to look it in the eye and be doing something when it comes for me.
-- Christopher Hitchens (Hitch-22)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ChristopherHitchens #Death #Mortality

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

I personally want to "do" death in the active and not the passive, and to be there to look it in the eye and be doing something when it comes for me.
-- Christopher Hitchens (Hitch-22)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ChristopherHitchens #Death #Mortality

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

I personally want to "do" death in the active and not the passive, and to be there to look it in the eye and be doing something when it comes for me.
-- Christopher Hitchens (Hitch-22)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ChristopherHitchens #Death #Mortality

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

I personally want to "do" death in the active and not the passive, and to be there to look it in the eye and be doing something when it comes for me.
-- Christopher Hitchens (Hitch-22)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ChristopherHitchens #Death #Mortality

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

I personally want to "do" death in the active and not the passive, and to be there to look it in the eye and be doing something when it comes for me.
-- Christopher Hitchens (Hitch-22)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ChristopherHitchens #Death #Mortality

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

We are NOT all in the same 'Boat'. We are in the same 'Storm'. Some have yachts, some have canoes, and some are drowning. Just be kind and help when you can!
-- Dameen Barr

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #DameenBarr #Compassion #Kindness #TheHumanCondition

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

Reality will kill you unless you deal with it through myths and metaphors.
-- Ray Bradbury

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RayBradbury #Myth #Metaphor #Reality

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

Ambition translates aspiration into action. It's the secret sauce that accelerates problem solving, spurs entrepreneurship, and galvanizes leadership. Most important, ambition is what drives human beings to improve their lives.
-- Sally Osberg (The Atlantic (Nov 12, 2012))

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #SallyOsberg #Ambition

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

Learning is the one perfect religion, its path correct, narrow, certain, straight.
-- Elizabeth Alexander (Crave Radiance)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ElizabethAlexander #Learning #Religion

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
-- G. K. Chesterton

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GKChesterton #Rights

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
-- Maya Angelou

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MayaAngelou #Attitude #Change

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
-- Maya Angelou

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MayaAngelou #Attitude #Change

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
-- Maya Angelou

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MayaAngelou #Attitude #Change

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
-- Maya Angelou

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MayaAngelou #Attitude #Change

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
-- Maya Angelou

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MayaAngelou #Attitude #Change

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

The glue that binds an immensely diverse people cannot be a common blood or unifying religion, but must instead be a shared idea, a secular religion (from the Latin for "tying together") that supplies us with a common sense of our responsibilities to one another.
-- John Schwarz (Illusions of Opportunity)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JohnSchwarz #Society

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
-- Mark Twain

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MarkTwain #Humor

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in a time of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
-- Dante

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #Dante #Crisis #Hell #Neutrality

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
-- Nathaniel Borenstein

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #NathanielBorenstein #Computers #EndoftheWorld

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
-- Nathaniel Borenstein

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #NathanielBorenstein #Computers #EndoftheWorld

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
-- Nathaniel Borenstein

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #NathanielBorenstein #Computers #EndoftheWorld

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
-- Nathaniel Borenstein

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #NathanielBorenstein #Computers #EndoftheWorld

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
-- Nathaniel Borenstein

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #NathanielBorenstein #Computers #EndoftheWorld

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

Isn't it obvious that Chicken Little represents the sane vision, and that Homo sapiens' motto, "Let's go shopping." is the cry of the true lunatic?
-- Twelve Monkeys

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #TwelveMonkeys #Humans #Insanity

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

Vision begins in the ecology of imagination.
-- Anonymous

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #Anonymous #Imagination #Vision

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

I don't make jokes, I just watch the government and report the facts.
-- Will Rogers

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #WillRogers #Government #Humor

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

Good design adds value faster than it adds cost.
-- Thomas C. Gale

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ThomasCGale #Design #Programming

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

The most daring thing to do with your life is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
-- Kurt Vonnegut

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #KurtVonnegut #Community #Loneliness

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology