Posts Tagged With: Stupidity

empires

 

“We’re doomed to repeat the past no matter what.
That’s what it is to be alive.”

 

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Pompeii in June 1996.


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human absurdity

 

“History is the study of all the world’s crime.”

 

~ Voltaire ~

 

000 human absurdity

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2007.


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le penseur

 

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

 

~ Voltaire ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2018.


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reboot required

 

The two most common elements in the universe
are hydrogen and stupidity.”

 

~ Harlan Ellison ~

 

000 reboot required 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the island of Ischia, Italy in June 1996.


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as if they never were

 

“The earth doesn’t care about humanity,
but humanity had better start caring about the earth.”

 

~ Erik Barth ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2013.


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apocalypso

 

“This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.”

 

~ T. S. Eliot ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 1999.


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look back in anger

 

“There is nothing so cruel in this world
as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.”

 

~ Haruki Murakami ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in the late 1980’s.


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the inheritors

 

“Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.”

 

~ Gustave Flaubert ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art in Paris taken in September 2017.


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citadel

 

“We are all born ignorant,
but one must work hard to remain stupid.”

 

~ Benjamin Franklin ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a hand painted tile taken in April 2020.


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the fragment of a tear

 

“Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates
the number of stupid individuals in circulation.”

 

~ Carlo M. Cipolla ~

 

000 the fragment of a tear 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2019.


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SHINE A LIGHT ON ME

 

“Is man merely a mistake of God’s?
Or God merely a mistake of man?”

 

~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~

 

000 shine a light on me

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2021.


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TWENTY FOUR SEVEN

 

“The average Smartphone user checks
his or her device every six and a half minutes.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2018 of street art by Kai.


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VIS LIBRES ET MEURS

 

“Freedom and responsibility aren’t interconnected things.
They are the same thing.”

 

~ Harry Browne ~

 

000 vis libres et meurs

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2021.


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LEMMINGS

 

“Over-consumption and overpopulation underlie
every environmental problem we face today.”

 

~ Jacques Yves Cousteau ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2021.


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HIDDEN AWAY

 

“If you stay here, you become lost.
And no one can find you. I like lost.”

 

~ Ally Condie ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2020.


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EMPIRES

 

“We’re doomed to repeat the past no matter what.
That’s what it is to be alive.”

 

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Pompeii in June 1996.


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SO MUCH BETTER WITHOUT US

 

“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”

 

~ Edward Abbey ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2020.


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CITADEL

 

“We are all born ignorant,
but one must work hard to remain stupid.”

 

~ Benjamin Franklin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a hand painted tile taken in April 2020.


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APOCALYPSO

 

“This is the way the world ends,
not with a bang, but a whimper.”

 

~ T. S. Eliot ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in September 1999.


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LOOK BACK IN ANGER

 

“There is nothing so cruel in this world
as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.”

 

~ Haruki Murakami ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in the late 1980’s.


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