Thoughts & Questions
First Impressions last?
Saturday, February 7th, 2009
Since we live in a world of sound bytes, where a slip of the tongue can cause great offence, I wonder how much people value first impressions?
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Oh! the snow, the beautiful snow, Filling the sky and earth below, Over the housetops, over the street, Over the heads of the people you meet. Dancing, Flirting, Skimming along. – J.W. (Joseph Warren) Watson
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
There is something about living in Ireland that results in us not handling the weather very well. I mean this in a positive and negative way.
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“We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.” – Laura Stavoe Harm
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
What a remarkable miracle that has taken place in California as a woman has given birth to octuplets, only the second to do so in America.
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A New Dawn
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
Today is meant to be the day when a new dawn hits the United States of America.
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Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence. – Sir Bobby Charlton
Sunday, January 18th, 2009
In this time of economic uncertainty, it was somewhat disheartening to read of the impending £100 million transfer of Kaka to Manchester City.
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“We had a miracle on 34th Street. I believe now we have had a miracle on the Hudson,” New York Gov. David Paterson
Saturday, January 17th, 2009
Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger is being hailed as a hero and rightly so.
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“The easiest person to deceive is one’s own self.” – Edward G Bulwer-Lytton
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
I think one of the strangest things to even attempt to do is to fake your own death. To me it doesn’t even seem to be like expecting to be able to live, for want of a better phrase, your live in the future without looking over your shoulder all of the time.
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Golden Handcuffs or just handcuffs?
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
Who really would be a teacher? I mean if you were advised that you would be offered £10,000 in loyalty payments to work in a disadvantaged/tough area, would it be worth the stress?
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Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices. – Sargent Shriver
Monday, January 12th, 2009
Just when things were a little too quiet, the racism card has reared its ugly head again, only this Prince Harry is the subject for debate.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain. – Pliny The Elder
Thursday, January 8th, 2009
Are companies jumping the gun or are they right to make the moves when they do in order to ensure survival?
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