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Whether it was their idea or whether they were acting on the advice of another Elspeth never knew, but they decided that it would be best for the child if they didn’t tell her they were leaving. They dressed Elspeth in her best clothes and
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“Constitutional democracy is based on two simultaneous but competing principles: a commitment to the will of the majority and a commitment to limit the potential excesses of the popular majority by recourse to a set of fundamental laws.”
― The Politics of Judicial Selection in Ireland
― The Politics of Judicial Selection in Ireland
“Ireland is different from the other countries that introduced institutional change in the judicial selection system. Policy changed occurred quickly and without the debate that took place in other countries. Institutional change to judicial selection processes was introduced although there was little evidence of political commitment to such change. The trigger for institutional change was the need to find a solution to a political crisis that might prevent the coalition government from breaking up.”
― The Politics of Judicial Selection in Ireland
― The Politics of Judicial Selection in Ireland
“What counts is not how hard you work but how much you grow.”
― Hidden Potential
― Hidden Potential
“the belief that women don't want to pursue leadership persists”
― Glass Half-Broken: Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back at Work
― Glass Half-Broken: Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back at Work
“Now the ivory towers will be 'visitor centres'
visited mostly during the long winters
by sea-birds — cormorant, puffin, kittiwake —
and their quartz lenses' own impersonal stroke
while automatically their hard gem-like flames
circulating at night unseen in empty rooms
preside over global warming and polar melt-down,
over Bill Long's Marie-Celeste effect and 'sonar-singing dark'.”
― The Yellow Book
visited mostly during the long winters
by sea-birds — cormorant, puffin, kittiwake —
and their quartz lenses' own impersonal stroke
while automatically their hard gem-like flames
circulating at night unseen in empty rooms
preside over global warming and polar melt-down,
over Bill Long's Marie-Celeste effect and 'sonar-singing dark'.”
― The Yellow Book
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