palestars » Quote http://www.palestars.com ...a tumblin' tumblelog... Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:05:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Unsayable Grace http://www.palestars.com/2008/11/11/unsayable-grace/ http://www.palestars.com/2008/11/11/unsayable-grace/#comments Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:14:57 +0000 Ken http://www.palestars.com/?p=357 “ Words can never say, as music can, the unsayable grace that leaps like light from mind to mind.
— Gwen Harwood
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“ Words can never say, as music can, the unsayable grace that leaps like light from mind to mind.

— Gwen Harwood
]]> http://www.palestars.com/2008/11/11/unsayable-grace/feed/ 1 Day-Blind Stars http://www.palestars.com/2008/06/07/day-blind-stars/ http://www.palestars.com/2008/06/07/day-blind-stars/#comments Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:46:26 +0000 Ken http://www.palestars.com/?p=353 “ ...And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light...
— Wendell Berry
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“ …And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light…

— Wendell Berry
]]> http://www.palestars.com/2008/06/07/day-blind-stars/feed/ 0 How You Take It http://www.palestars.com/2008/02/10/how-you-take-it/ http://www.palestars.com/2008/02/10/how-you-take-it/#comments Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:42:20 +0000 Ken http://www.palestars.com/2008/02/10/how-you-take-it/ “ Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
— Irving Berlin
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“ Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.

— Irving Berlin
]]> http://www.palestars.com/2008/02/10/how-you-take-it/feed/ 1 The Sum of Our Tears http://www.palestars.com/2008/02/02/the-sum-of-our-tears/ http://www.palestars.com/2008/02/02/the-sum-of-our-tears/#comments Sun, 03 Feb 2008 03:35:46 +0000 Ken http://www.palestars.com/2008/02/02/the-sum-of-our-tears/ “ We are all the sum of our tears. Too little and the ground is not fertile, and nothing can grow there. Too much, the best of us is washed away. My rains have come and gone...for now. Yours are just beginning.
— G'Kar, Babylon 5: Objects In Motion
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“ We are all the sum of our tears. Too little and the ground is not fertile, and nothing can grow there. Too much, the best of us is washed away. My rains have come and gone…for now. Yours are just beginning.

— G’Kar, Babylon 5: Objects In Motion
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— Plutarch
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— Plutarch
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— Duncan Stuart
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— Duncan Stuart
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— Gibarian, Solaris
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— Gibarian, Solaris
]]> http://www.palestars.com/2007/09/21/we-want-mirrors/feed/ 0 Do I Contradict Myself? http://www.palestars.com/2007/09/20/do-i-contradict-myself/ http://www.palestars.com/2007/09/20/do-i-contradict-myself/#comments Thu, 20 Sep 2007 05:41:41 +0000 Ken http://www.palestars.com/2007/09/20/do-i-contradict-myself/ “ Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. (I am large, I contain multitudes.)
— Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
]]> “ Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. (I am large, I contain multitudes.)

— Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
]]> http://www.palestars.com/2007/09/20/do-i-contradict-myself/feed/ 0 Cuckoo Clocks & The Renaissance http://www.palestars.com/2007/09/17/cuckoo-clocks-the-renaissance/ http://www.palestars.com/2007/09/17/cuckoo-clocks-the-renaissance/#comments Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:53:47 +0000 Ken http://www.palestars.com/2007/09/17/cuckoo-clocks-the-renaissance/ “ In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.
— Orson Welles
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— Orson Welles
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— Carl Sagan
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— Carl Sagan
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