But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.

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Thy liberty in law!

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Wee sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie, O, what a panic's in thy breastie!

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But Mousie, thou art no thy lane, In proving foresight may be vain: The best-laid schemes o mice an men Gang aft agley, An lea'e us nought but grief an pain, For promis'd joy!

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Know thy numbers FORBES dissented in 1996 when Wall Street was hymning the praises of wheeler-dealer Henry Silverman and what is now Cendant Corp. (then HFS).

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And Rovio said: go forth and be angry, for the pigs hath absconded with thy eggs and hidden themselves away in curiously arranged fortresses of stone and wood furnished with many glittering jewels and succulent hams.

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And the cost in terms of beggar-thy-neighbour protectionism and diplomatic poison would be dire.

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And a different scenario, with the same effect, might play out in the modern workplace, where the virtualization of work is forcing businesses to rethink the way they support staff both virtually and physically when thy have a need to spend time in the office.

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THY's boss, who was appointed in 2005 by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's mildly Islamist prime minister.

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But a while after she enlisted, thy discovered she had an genetic illness, so she was honorably discharged, no GI bill, only a kick in the pants and now she has a pre-existing condition.

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