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In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.


James MacGregor Burns

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ROBERT BURNS And there begins a lang digression About the lords o' the creation.
ROBERT BURNS O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I.
ROBERT BURNS The wide world is all before us-- But a world without a friend.
ROBERT BURNS Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
ROBERT BURNS In durance vile here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
ROBERT BURNS Then horn for horn they stretch and strive; Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive.
ROBERT BURNS I waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing: But, och! it hardens a' within, ...
ROBERT BURNS I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, am...
ROBERT BURNS Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale. from the poem The Cotter’s Saturday Ni...
ROBERT BURNS Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blu...
ROBERT BURNS What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature...
ROBERT BURNS G-- knows I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I...
ROBERT BURNS Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The burstin...
ROBERT BURNS Hear, Land o' Cakes, and brither Scots, Frae Maidenkirk to Johnie Groat's;- If there's a hole ...
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