I'm less concerned about whether being a good corporate citizen burnishes a company's reputation. That's just an added benefit. I believe it's a responsibility, and there is no negotiating on responsibilities.


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Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!
ROBERT BURNS
It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty. [Fr., Contre les rebelles c'est cru...
ROBERT BURNS
Ilk cowslip cup shall kep a tear.
ROBERT BURNS
And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale.
ROBERT BURNS
Contented wi' little, and cantie wi' mair.
ROBERT BURNS
I'll be merry and free, I'll be sad for nae-body; If nae-body cares for me, I'll care fo...
ROBERT BURNS
To liken them to your auld-warld squad, I must needs say comparisons are odd.
ROBERT BURNS
Without discipline the Army would just be a bunch of guys wearing the same color clothing.
FRANK BURNS
I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
GEORGE BURNS
Sex can be fun after eighty, after ninety, and after lunch!
GEORGE BURNS
Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining ...
KEN BURNS
All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn, Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn.
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 ...
ROBERT BURNS
O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to heaven is sent; Long may thy h...
ROBERT BURNS
But pleasures are like poppies spread; You seize the flower, its bloom is shed. Or like the sn...
ROBERT BURNS
Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!
ROBERT BURNS
The mother may forget the child That smiles sae sweetly on her knee; But I'll remember thee, G...
ROBERT BURNS
O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blund...
ROBERT BURNS
My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons o...
ROBERT BURNS
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of wo.
ROBERT BURNS
Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
ROBERT BURNS
The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, And violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
ROBERT BURNS
Now blooms the lily by the bank, The primrose down the brae; The hawthorn's budding in the gle...
ROBERT BURNS
Mourn, little harebells, o'er the lea; Ye stately foxgloves fair to see! Ye woodbines, hanging...
ROBERT BURNS
The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that.
ROBERT BURNS
A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his ...
ROBERT BURNS
A man's a man for a' that!
ROBERT BURNS