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THE GEM COLLECTION

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THE GEM COLLECTION · 14h ago

MAY 27 2012 : "Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down." John Masefield

http://www.bluemooners.com/sailingquotes.htm "If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea…" Antoine de Saint Exupery
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THE GEM COLLECTION · 1d ago

MAY 26 2012 : To the outside world, we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other’s hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time. Clara Ortega

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/here-there-and-everywhere/201109/31-quotes-siblings It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.  Dylan Thomas Filed under: 2012, MAY
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THE GEM COLLECTION · 2d ago

MAY 25 2012 : I bead, therefore I am. Rene Descartes.

Beware of all enterprises that require new beads. Henry David Thoreau http://hookedonbeads.robertpanderson.com/hooked_quo.html “What you call passion is not a spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world. Where passion dominates, that does not signify the presence of greater
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THE GEM COLLECTION · 3d ago

MAY 24 2012 : Live with vultures, become a vulture; live with crows, become a crow. (Laotian Proverb)

RUDYARD KIPLING. If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, [...]
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THE GEM COLLECTION · 4d ago

MAY 23 2012. Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men’s clothes. Chinese saying.

Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it. Chairman Mao. Filed under: 2012, MAY Tagged: BILAMBIL, BILAMBIL COTTAGE, CHINESE, DAILY READINGS, FENDER GUITAR, INVESTIGATION, MAO TSE TUNG, QUO
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THE GEM COLLECTION · 5d ago

MAY 22 2012. Two tightrope walkers cannot perform on the same tightrope. Turkish.

“A guitar has moonlight in it.”  James M. Cain FOTO – DUNOON BLUES FESTIVAL 2008 Carry me away in a caravel, in an old and gentle caravel, in the prow, or if you like in the foam, and lose me, far away, far away. In the horse-drawn carriage of another age. In the deceptive velvet [...]
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THE GEM COLLECTION · 6d ago

MAY 21 2012. I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died." Richard Diran

Your speech died like beer. Kishubi Proverb. FOTO – BILLINUDGEL HOTEL BEER GARDEN, HILLBILLY BLUES BANDITS PLAYING ROCKABILLY, BLUES AND SKIFFLE.  2007. Filed under: 2012, MAY Tagged: BILLINIDGEL PUB, HILLBILLY BLUES BANDITS
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THE GEM COLLECTION · 1w ago

MAY 20 2012. provide the poor wanderer with shelter. Isaiah.

"I’ve heard newborn babies wailin’ like a mourning dove And old men with broken teeth stranded without love. Do I understand your question, man, is it hopeless and forlorn? Come in, she said, I’ll give you shelter from the storm." Bob Dylan. Filed under: 2012, MAY
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THE GEM COLLECTION · 1W ago

MAY 19 2012 : “Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument is an exchange of ignorance”

Robert Quillen. “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” Albert Einstein http://matthewminas.wordpress.com/tag/albert-einstein-quote-on-k
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THE GEM COLLECTION · 1W ago

MAY 18 2012: “Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.” Jean Cocteau

“Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] – ‘I shall have heroin, but I shan’t have a hamburger.’ What a sexy little paradox.” Russell Brand My Booky Wook Filed under: 2012, MAY
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