Medicine is a social science, and politics only medicine on a grand scale.
-- Rudolf Virchow
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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #DefianceHouse #LakePowell #Utah
Wisdom in Space
Useful quotations collected by @richardrathe
This is a Mastodon port of my original quotations engine from 1997...
https://richard.rathe.org/cgi-bin/wisdom.cgi
All photos are my own.
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
-- Lou Holtz
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #LouHoltz #Life
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Flowers #Junkyard #Minnesota
The TV commercial is not at all about the character of products to be consumed. It is about the character of the consumers of products.
-- Kontra (@counternotions)
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #Kontra #Advertising #Television
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Triathlon #Runners #StPetersburg #Florida
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
-- Henry David Thoreau
My theory is that as the world improves, expectations rise even faster, leading to the persistent illusion that the world was better in the past. The only time the illusion is punctured is when a society is successfully digging out of a very big slump.
-- Noah Smith (@Noahpinion)
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #NoahSmith #Nostalgia #Progress #ThePast
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico
One man's feature is another man's bug.
-- Jim Walker (after Paul Simon)
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it.
-- Peter Drucker
Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #TheodoreRoosevelt #Life #Right
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Kayaks #Everglades #Florida
If one considers everything well, one will find something appears to be virtue, which if pursued would be one's ruin, and something else appears to be vice, which if pursued results in one's security and well-being.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #NiccoloMachiavelli #Security #Vice #Virtue
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
-- Peter Drucker
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #PeterDrucker #Management
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #SacandagaLake #Adirondacks #NewYork
As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.
-- Proverbs 27:17
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #Proverbs2717 #Life
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Protest #MarchForOurLives #Florida
The benefit of controlling a modern state is less the power to persecute the innocent, more the power to protect the guilty.
-- David Frum (The Atlantic (Mar 2017))
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #DavidFrum #Government #Power
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Panopainting #NewMexico
Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlinck
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MauriceMaeterlinck #Genius #Mediocrity #Progress
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Triathlon #Runners #StPetersburg #Florida
Fascism first causes, then thrives on, the chaos for which it presents itself as sole cure.
-- William Gibson (@GreatDismal)
When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
-- Alexander Graham Bell
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
-- Thomas A. Edison
So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry.
-- Jack Kerouac (Desolation Angels)
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JackKerouac #Adventure #Discovery #Life #Regret #Travel
The confusion of style with substance is fostered by any medium that allows advertising to be integrated into its fabric and format.
-- Martha Rosler
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MarthaRosler #Advertising #Confusion #Style
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #Kayaks #Everglades #Florida
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
-- Elbert Hubbard
Nuclear energy: a correct understanding brings a prosperous lifestyle.
-- Futaba Japan (Fukushima Daiichi Ghost Town)
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