#liriver — Public Fediverse posts
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It takes at least a couple of decades to realize that you were well taught. All true education is a delayed-action bomb assembled in the classroom for explosion at a later date. An educational fuse of 50 years long is by no means unusual.
-- Kenneth D. Gangel⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #KennethDGangel #Education
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology
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It takes at least a couple of decades to realize that you were well taught. All true education is a delayed-action bomb assembled in the classroom for explosion at a later date. An educational fuse of 50 years long is by no means unusual.
-- Kenneth D. Gangel⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #KennethDGangel #Education
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology
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It takes at least a couple of decades to realize that you were well taught. All true education is a delayed-action bomb assembled in the classroom for explosion at a later date. An educational fuse of 50 years long is by no means unusual.
-- Kenneth D. Gangel⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #KennethDGangel #Education
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology
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It takes at least a couple of decades to realize that you were well taught. All true education is a delayed-action bomb assembled in the classroom for explosion at a later date. An educational fuse of 50 years long is by no means unusual.
-- Kenneth D. Gangel⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #KennethDGangel #Education
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology
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It takes at least a couple of decades to realize that you were well taught. All true education is a delayed-action bomb assembled in the classroom for explosion at a later date. An educational fuse of 50 years long is by no means unusual.
-- Kenneth D. Gangel⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #KennethDGangel #Education
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology
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Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.
-- Bertrand Russell⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #BertrandRussell #Ignorance
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology
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Nature has beneficently provided that throughout the world you may find something to imitate.
-- Leonardo da Vinci⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #LeonardodaVinci #Nature
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology
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When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
-- George Bernard Shaw⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GeorgeBernardShaw #Humor #Truth
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
-- John Burroughs⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JohnBurroughs #Belief
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ArthurSchopenhauer #Change
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology
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Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in a few words. If you can, win over the conversation of your company to what it should be by your own.
-- Epictetus (55-135 CE)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #Epictetus #Silence
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
-- Thomas Jefferson⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ThomasJefferson #Government #Resistance
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology
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The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head.
-- William Osler⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #WilliamOsler #Medicine
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology
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A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship.
-- Alexander Tyler (circa 1750)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AlexanderTyler #Democracy #Politics #TheMajority
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology
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An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.
-- Mahatma Gandhi⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MahatmaGandhi #NonViolence #Revenge #Violence
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology
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The future of our civilization depends upon our ability to select and control our heritage from the past, to alter our present attitudes and habits, and to project fresh forms into which our energies may be freely poured.
-- Lewis Mumford (1895-1990)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #LewisMumford #Civilization #TheFuture
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology
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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
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All power corrupts, but some must govern.
-- John le Carré⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JohnleCarr #Government #Power
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology
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Sickness is dependent upon the blunders of society.
-- Pierre Cabanis (1890)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #PierreCabanis #Medicine #Society
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology
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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
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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
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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read.
-- Pliny the Elder⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #PlinytheElder #Life
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology
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Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.
-- Ron Nessen⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RonNessen #Credulity
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology
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The future ain't what it used to be.
-- Yogi Berra⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #YogiBerra #TheFuture #Humor
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology