Just stop for a minute and think about it

Would you rather have this:



or $8,000,000?

Because that's what they are hawking it for. It didn't sell, however, at Sotheby's, but no one is discouraged.

"It remains a sensational diamond. There is nothing wrong with the stone, it just clearly wasn't its moment," David Bennet, a senior consultant at Sotheby's, told reporters after the auction.

Does it strike anyone strange that two things with no intrinsic value to man's survival or well-being are the most highly valued by man? Gold and diamonds. People will kill for the possession of - whole societies are built around - things with artificial value.

Clean air? Who needs it? Clean water? Pfffft. Gold? Diamonds? Priceless!

Humans. Most interesting.

I'm going to remember that line - as I have plenty of opportunity to use it: "It just clearly wasn't my moment."