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No stone unturned?

One comment here. People always go to other people for advice, seeking tricks and secrets to this and that. Shortcuts, in other words, but the great trick is that there really is no trick. The great secret is that there is no secret. Hence the advice from the oracle in Delphi: Make an honest effort and you’ll get what you or rather you deserve.

Or rather what your efforts deserve, to be exact.

Don’t, in other words, always try to cut corners. It won’t get you anywhere – Where are you going anyway?

In short, identify what you’re supposed to do and do it. When you’re done, all will be done.

And don’t take this all too literally either, ok?

OK. Here are two more or less recent media examples:

1. Gordon Brown has insisted that the Government had “left no stone unturned” in trying to secure the release of British hostages in Iraq after two bodies were handed over.

The bodies were handed over to the Iraqi authorities this weekend with the families of three further British hostages who were abducted from the Iraqi Finance Ministry clinging to the hope their loved ones are still alive.

Graeme Moore, the father of one of those still missing, hit out at the way the Foreign Office and David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, had dealt with the issue.