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Quote by Robert Burns
How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the power

How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful. – Robert Burns

Other quotes by Robert Burns

I pick my favorite quotation and store them in my mind as ready armor, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence. – Robert Burns

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Quotations
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Robert Burns
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I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration. – Robert Burns

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Laughter
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Robert Burns
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Kindness
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The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God. – Robert Burns

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Kindness

Be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud. – Maya Angelou

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Kindness

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. – Epictetus

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Kindness

Sometimes someone says something really small, and it just fits right into this empty place in your heart. – From the television show My So-Called Life

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Kindness

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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. – East African Proverb

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When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it cant be cured. – Anton Chekhov

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We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo – men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win? – Robert McNamara

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Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome. – T. S. Eliot

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