They Said It...
Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.
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misc315.jpgSubmitted by Syscrusher on Mon, 2005/06/06 - 22:13.
 This is a photo from the state-run plant that produces cultured freshwater pearls. This is the only picture from that part of the tour, because, frankly, it was mostly a shopping opportunity and a fairly contrived one at that. It was kind of interesting to learn that the oysters can be age-estimated by ridges on their shells and that a typical specimen in the culture beds can have around 20-25 pearls inside. There were several shopping stops on the tour, proving that tourism works the same in Eastern countries as it does in the West: milk 'em till they bleed. Moooooo. |