February 2013
1 post
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“The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth....”
October 2012
5 posts
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“We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit”
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“Everything in life has a price connected to it.
There’s a price to pay if...”
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“Some men dream of worthy accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them”
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What To Do About Live Export →
What can Australia do about the Live Export Trade? Ending it may not be as much of a clear cut case as you’d think.
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“Opportunities never come to those who wait, they are captured by hose who dare...”
July 2012
6 posts
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Queensland Labor Silent On Government Funding →
With the ever increasing lists of projects being cancelled by the current LNP Government, any reasonable person would have thought that the Opposition would be scrutinising everything that tax payers money is spent on.
Except this hasn’t been the case.
As mentioned in the post Whats On The List Of Priorities For State Funding?, the LNP Government is committed to handing over $110 Million...
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Same Song, Different Singer →
Lately, it seems to be another day, another report/article comes out supporting the Gillard Government’s Carbon Tax.
This time around it is The Climate Institute, and their Climate of the Nation 2012 report.
According to this report, 28% of voters supported the Carbon Tax, with this figure jumping to 47% once it was explained to them that the tax revenue went to household assistance,...
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Whats On The List Of Priorities For State Funding? →
What is to be said about the government’s priorities for State Funding when support for the gambling industry is given preference over the retention of jobs?
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Cameron’s Rules →
Everyone has a set of unwritten rules that they follow. Here are some of Cameron’s
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Democracy. Is The Media Or The Miner A Greater... →
Who or what is a greater threat to democracy in Australia, the miner who wants seat on a board, or a complicit media?
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If Nothing Changes, Nothing Changes. →
Australia’s Carbon Tax, is almost a week old, though should we be believing the pseudo environmentalists who are talking it up?
June 2012
3 posts
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Monday Rant: My List Of Peeves. →
Today’s Monday Morning Rant is the Top 5 List of my pet peeves.
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The Big Announcement →
What is the big announcement from Cameron Blewett?
Republic: To Be Or Not To Be? →
Should Australia become a republic, or should we leave things the way that they are?
April 2012
1 post
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“First say to yourself what you would be;
and then do what you have to do.
”
– Epictetus
June 2011
5 posts
“Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no...”
– John Kenneth Galbraith
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“Just because you can … doesn’t mean you should”
– Anon
“Every eye sees its own special vision; every ear hears a most different song....”
– Book of Counted Sorrows - Dean Koontz
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“The delight of mountains, rivers, grasses, trees, beasts, fish and insects is an...”
– Art of Peace - Morihei Ueshiba
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“All of life is a circle, endlessly revolving, and that is the center point of...”
– Art of Peace - Morihei Ueshiba
March 2011
1 post
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“Caffeine is my Shepard; I shall not doze.
It maketh me to wake in green...”
– unknown
February 2011
3 posts
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“Our decisions, not the conditions of our lives, determine our destiny”
– Anthony Robbins
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“Opportunities never come to those who wait,
they are captured by those who dare...”
– Unknown
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“Take your life into your own hands and what happens?
A terrible thing:
no one...”
– Erica Long
January 2011
12 posts
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“If at first you do succeed,
try to hide your astonishment”
– Harry F. Banks
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“Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be...”
– Samuel Johnson
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“The real person you are is revealed in the moments when you’re certain no...”
– Ralph S. Marston, Jr.
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“You are not here merely to make a living.
You are here in order to enable the...”
– Woodrow Wilson
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“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”
– Picasso
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“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
We didn’t...”
– Ronald Reagan
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“You cannot solve a problem with the same mind that created it.”
– Albert Einstein
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“Each day of human life contains joy and anger, pain and pleasure, darkness and...”
– Morihei Ueshiba (The Art of Peace)
“Things are not happening to you.
Things are happening because of you.”
– Anonymous
My first job: food service
Kitchen hand at Red Rooster in Frankston Victoria. I think it was about 12 months doing it part time while I was still at school.
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“You don’t need to run away from the past. For it’s already quickly...”
– Ralph Marston
December 2010
21 posts
“Life is a game.
The rules of the game are:
Don’t take yourself too...”
“Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no...”
– John Kenneth Galbraith
R U OK? →
It has been nearly 3 months since R U OK? Day on 07 October, and not wanting this to be one of those things that only gets spoken about once a year, I thought that it was time to have another…
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“Man can live for about forty days without food, and about three days without...”
– Hal Lindsey
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“With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first...”
– Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek)
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What TV show makes you laugh the loudest?
MASH. Yes, I know it is old, it still cracks me up though
Ask me anything
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“The tragedy of life is not that we die but what dies inside us while we live”
– Albert Schweitzer
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“Never underestimate the power and potential of the human spirit”
– Unknown
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“Until you make peace
with who you are,
you’ll never be content
with...”
– Doris Mortham
My Idea of a Perfect Sunday
Sitting on the rooftop of where I live enjoying a few wines with good friends, watching the afternoon turn into evening then into night…
That happens at least once a month.
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“My train pulled into Brussels for a breather
And I sat in my empty 2nd class...”
– Moments in Exile - Fred Fink
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“She fluttered and flittered and stretched her beautiful wings.
Then still, she...”
– Moments in Exile - Fred Fink
Why I'm (Never) Going Digital
Possibly for reference books.
For others, that is part of the joy of reading a book. Holding it in your hand, turning the pages, the smell of the paper…
