Early Retirement for Injured Federal Employees
What does it mean when a person says, “The fundamentals remain sound”? Is it one of those “throw-away” lines which makes one sound intelligent, but upon closer inspection, means very little? Sort of like the misuse of the double-negative that was popularly in use, where people say, “irregardless” of this or that? Fundamentals are important to every successful endeavor, and in preparing, formulating and filing […]
Tree limbs can be shaken; hands can shake, evidencing some agreement or initial salutation of a wordless sort, or even accompanied by some utterances; and the earth can shake as the subterranean tectonic shifts invisible and otherwise unnoticed, which then can result in tsunamis and other natural disasters. The shaken confidence can take many forms; and the forms themselves cannot so easily be identified. […]
Use of cliches allows for minimal effort of expression; the very loss of originality, of benefit derived from utterances overused but generally understood, and the utter dependence upon past acceptance of declarative thoughts without needing to consider the applicability of the conceptual connotation — these allow for laziness to wander throughout a thoughtless platitude. The aggregate of a linguistic universe, however, is one thing; to live a life of cliches beyond merely stating the obvious, is to embrace, engage and ultimate believe in them. “Life’s lottery has left me bankrupt”; “This is merely the quiet before the storm“; “All is fair in love and war”; “The writing is on the wall”; […]