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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 · 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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