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This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office.


Ursula Burns

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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