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"There does not seem to be that collegiality I referred to, there seems to be much more of a them versus us attitude, rather than we all have a role to play in this process so let's get on with it."
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"I had a lovers quarrel with the world."
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"A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone."
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"Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that."
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"We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them."
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"It is better to think positive than dwell on negative thoughts."
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"A healthy attitude is contagious, let others catch it."
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"Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities."
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"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter."
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"There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist."
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"Stubborness and staunch, they are both same thingsfrom different point of view, such crazy and eccentric."
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"And thus it was that I started to wonder why Robert Burns is so important to us. We have other poets, and other writers, and other heroes, yet we do not afford them the veneration that we afford to Robert Burns."
Heroes
"One cannot imagine Scots music and song without the contribution of Burns."
Music
"If I was starting off now, I would probably have taken one or two different turnings along the way."
Now
"For in the works of Robert Burns we see the whole cosmos of man's experience and emotion, from zenith to nadir, from birth until death."
Death
"There does not seem to be that collegiality I referred to, there seems to be much more of a them versus us attitude, rather than we all have a role to play in this process so let's get on with it."
Attitude
"There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of religion, then only Christopher Columbus has more statues than he worldwide."
Religion
"Besides, I always thought that one of the great attractions of practising law was what I like to call the collegiality of the profession and I think that duty of collegiality applies even when we are retired."
Thought
"I think that practising the law, particularly litigation, and particularly in Glasgow, has always been difficult enough without adding to it by having problems with professional colleagues or former colleagues."
Law
"And on 25 January of each year and for many days before it and after it there is not an hour in the day or night when a Burns Supper is not taking place somewhere on this earth."
Day
"Having said that, I enjoyed every minute of my time and I got a degree of job satisfaction which I am sure was far greater than the majority of my colleagues."
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