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In the mystery of unclaimed spaces lies the invitation to shape narratives anew, becoming authors instead of passive readers of our environment.
Author:
Elara Voss
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Inheriting a future burdened by past choices compels us to carve our destiny--that unfitting steal shrouded fragile echoes with the could-have-beens.
Author:
Sofia Lorenz
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We are determined that our nation shall cease to be a burden on other countries but shall contribute positively to world prosperity, while observing fully the fair trade practices in international commerce.
Author:
Shigeru Yoshida
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There is fear as to whether Japan, reduced to such a predicament, could ever manage to pay reparations to certain designated Allied Powers without shifting the burden upon the other Allied Powers.
Author:
Shigeru Yoshida
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It is my fondest wish that the gift of song that God has given me will flow from my soul to yours and help ease any burden that might weigh upon you.
Author:
Bobby Womack
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Our ministry is supported entirely by faith, through the missions gifts of readers who receive my messages every three weeks. We seldom mention money, and we never burden supporters.
Author:
David Wilkerson
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God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.
Author:
Reggie White
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As they work hard for our children, America's teachers often reach into their own pockets to make sure they have the best classroom supplies. I feel strongly that the federal government should help make up for their personal financial burden.
Author:
John Warner
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One of the advantages of appearing in such a play is that you begin to understand it properly, I feel Ophelia's tragedy was that she had been so used by everybody and felt that she bore a great burden of guilt.
Author:
Lalla Ward
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At one time Tribune Syndicate emptied out their storeroom. They put tables full of original cartoons down in the lobby and said take one if you want one. The comics were simply a burden to them.
Author:
Mort Walker
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What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
Author:
Voltaire
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The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.
Author:
Scott Turow
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You are part of that horrid expression, the best and the brightest. It can be a terrible burden if you let it be, but it is the great challenge of your time. And being a warrior in that challenge should be wondrous.
Author:
Paul Tsongas
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As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society.
Author:
Cal Thomas
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Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.
Author:
Amy Tan
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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
Author:
Rabindranath Tagore
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Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten it as much as we can.
Author:
Philip Stanhope
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Our country, the United States of America, may be the world's largest economy and the world's only superpower, but we stretch ourselves dangerously thin by taking on commitments like Iraq with only a motley band of allies to share the burden.
Author:
John Spratt
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Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.
Author:
Ed Smith
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Finally, the House is working to require a comprehensive federal review of IRS regulations with a follow-up report to Congress on possible actions to reduce the tax paperwork burden imposed on small businesses.
Author:
Michael Simpson
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I did all the work at the beginning up until the point where I couldn't handle the increasingly heavy art production burden alone. I needed, and got, assistance.
Author:
Joe Shuster
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The United States has the burden to lead for peace. And not just peace - we need peace with justice, a much harder goal.
Author:
Jeff Sessions
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Lay the burden at the feet of the Savior.
Author:
Richard Scott
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Reducing the tax burden is necessary to produce economic growth.
Author:
Bob Schaffer
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Only the closest collaborators of the Fuehrer know how difficult is the burden of this responsibility; how sorrowful are the hours during which decisions must be made which bear upon the well being and the fate of all of Germany.
Author:
Hjalmar Schacht
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All communities have a right to clean water. The taxpayers of Pueblo should not have to carry the burden of the clean up cost simply because they live downstream.
Author:
John Salazar
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Why isn't it natural for people who have lived and worked at something to want to use the knowledge and capacity in a new way, free from the burden of making a living?
Author:
James Rouse
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In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She's got a construction zone going on in her belly.
Author:
Al Roker
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If it is a relief to take your clothes off at night, be sure that something is wrong. Clothes should not be a burden. They should be a comfort and a protection.
Author:
Ellen Richards
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I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.
Author:
Ruth Rendell
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We want to live at any price; so we cannot burden ourselves with feelings which, though they might be ornamental enough in peace-time, would be out of place here.
Author:
Erich Remarque
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True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.
Author:
Robert Reich
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Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.
Author:
William Pollard
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He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
Author:
Plato
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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
Author:
Max Planck
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
Author:
Petrarch
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Remember, the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone.
Author:
Goran Persson
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A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.
Author:
Jane Pauley
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The burden which is well borne becomes light.
Author:
Ovid
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I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.
Author:
Leo Ornstein
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It puts the provider in a situation of looking for ways to have someone else pick up a piece of the cost. As a result, every customer who has insurance ends up paying a 'hidden premium.' It simply adds to the health care cost burden.
Author:
David Obey
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The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.
Author:
Max Nordau
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I saw him... at peace in my armchair. I remember wishing he could stay in peace like that forever. I had a feeling of easing his burden with my strength.
Author:
Dennis Nilsen
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We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.
Author:
John Newton
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People really have to believe in their tax system. They have to believe that there is an equitable distribution of the burden, but there is also an important investment based upon the potential achievements that come from us paying our taxes.
Author:
Richard Neal
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The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden.
Author:
Richard Neal
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The collective conscience of a hundred musicians is no light burden. Think for a moment of what it would mean to a pianist if by some miracle every key of his instrument should suddenly become a living thing.
Author:
Charles Munch
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OFSTED has made large cuts in the paperwork which schools are asked to provide and further steps to reduce the bureaucratic burden will be introduced in September.
Author:
Estelle Morris
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The Democratic Party opposes tax cuts but it cannot say so publicly. Thus, it is forced to support the idea of lowering the tax burden but using class warfare rhetoric to dispute the allocation of the relief.
Author:
Dick Morris
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Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
Author:
Margaret Mitchell
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The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde.
Author:
Jonathan Miller
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America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of war and to share the responsibility and the economic cost of rebuilding Iraq.
Author:
Barbara Mikulski
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The poorest residents of the gulf coast were most affected by the devastating hurricanes, and the poorest Americans have shouldered a disproportionate share of the burden in Iraq.
Author:
Marty Meehan
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Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.
Author:
Patrick McGoohan
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Please believe that I do this because I am convinced that my illness cannot be helped for any length of time and I cannot bear to be a burden on anyone any longer.
Author:
Susannah McCorkle
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
Author:
W. Maugham
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Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world.
Author:
Edwin Markham
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It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
Author:
Kamisese Mara
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The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at.
Author:
Marilyn Manson
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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
Author:
James Madison
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The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.
Author:
Martin Luther
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Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.
Author:
Anne Lindbergh
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Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.
Author:
Daniel Lewis
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Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process.
Author:
Lawrence Lessig
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While I drew, and wept along with the terrified children I was drawing, I really felt the burden I am bearing. I felt that I have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate.
Author:
Kathe Kollwitz
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Based on history the expectations are simply the highest, it kind of could become a burden for you or it could be something that you are really proud of, you know so I take the second one.
Author:
Jurgen Klinsmann
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We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded.
Author:
Charles Kingsley
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Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
Author:
John Kennedy
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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.
Author:
Thomas Kempis
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Every burden is a blessing.
Author:
Walt Kelly
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Competition in armament, both land and naval, is not only a terrible burden upon the people, but I believe it to be one of the greatest menaces to the peace of the world.
Author:
Frank Kellogg
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There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence.
Author:
Donald Justice
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To lose a son under those circumstances - a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on your heart.
Author:
Brian Jones
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The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires the collaboration of so many disciplines and points of view to be understood at all, is a benefit rather than a burden.
Author:
Bruce Jackson
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Plus, 40% of our debt is owned by foreign interest. I can't support a plan that passes along cost burden to our children and makes us more reliant on foreign dollars.
Author:
Steve Israel
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Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men.
Author:
King Hussein I
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Clearly, this Sino-Japanese War of more than four years was a considerable burden on Japan's national power and an obstacle to the maintenance of peace in the Pacific.
Author:
Tojo Hideki
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None knows the weight of another's burden.
Author:
George Herbert
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It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
Author:
Patricia Heaton
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What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
Author:
Dag Hammarskjold
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Rising health care spending occurs because it is beneficial, not a burden on the economy.
Author:
Robert Hall
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Every document, apparently ancient, coming from the proper repository or custody, and bearing on its face no evident marks of forger, the law presumes to be genuine, and devolves on the opposing party the burden of proving it to be otherwise.
Author:
Simon Greenleaf
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Proceeding further, to inquire whether the facts related by the Four Evangelists are proved by competent and satisfactory evidence, we are led, first, to consider on which side lies the burden of establishing the credibility of the witnesses.
Author:
Simon Greenleaf
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We finally sat down and asked ourselves how much of our lives we wanted to give everybody. We had just given a little too much, and it started to become a burden.
Author:
Brian Green
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The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.
Author:
Allen Ginsberg
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While there are many influences on gas prices in America, I believe the passage of a national energy bill will help relieve this burden on our country.
Author:
Paul Gillmor
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We must have a relentless commitment to producing a meaningful, comprehensive energy package aimed at conservation, alleviating the burden of energy prices on consumers, decreasing our country's dependency on foreign oil, and increasing electricity grid reliability.
Author:
Paul Gillmor
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One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.
Author:
Katharine Gerould
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The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.
Author:
John Gardner
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Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.
Author:
Harry Fosdick
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Traditionally, Medicare's assurance has been that for the elderly and persons with disabilities that they will not be alone when confronted with the full burden of their health care costs.
Author:
Mike Fitzpatrick
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Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.
Author:
Oriana Fallaci
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I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as king as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.
Author:
Edward Edward VIII
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Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.
Author:
Bob Dylan
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If the Administration does nothing, high gasoline prices will continue to increasingly burden our economy, taking millions of dollars out of the hands of families and putting it straight into the pockets of OPEC.
Author:
Byron Dorgan
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Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
Author:
Denis Diderot
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No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
Author:
Charles Dickens
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People expect a lot more from someone they think looks interesting. It's a burden.
Author:
Catherine Deneuve
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Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt.
Author:
Bill Delahunt
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The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.'
Author:
Mitch Daniels
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Well, where is the money? Show me the money? Our allies have put up a few billion dollars, but the American taxpayer has been required to shoulder the burden of this war.
Author:
Jim Cooper
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Soaring prescription drug costs have placed a tremendous strain on family budgets. They have also imposed a heavy burden on employers - both public and private - who are struggling to provide affordable health insurance coverage to their workers.
Author:
Susan Collins
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Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.
Author:
Jeremy Collier
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The yoke you wear determines the burden you bear.
Author:
Edwin Cole
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It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages.
Author:
Bainbridge Colby
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Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age.
Author:
Joel Coen
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I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.
Author:
Beverly Cleary
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If we do not act now to strengthen Social Security, the system that so many depend upon today will be unable to meet its promises to tomorrow's retirees, and it will burden our children and grandchildren with exhaustive taxes.
Author:
Chris Chocola
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The most consistent gift and burden of motherhood is advice.
Author:
Susan Chira
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Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
Author:
Gilbert Chesterton
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Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
Author:
M. Casey
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Americans are also feeling the effects of soaring energy prices at the gas pump. The double burden of these added expenses will be far too much for many families.
Author:
Russ Carnahan
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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
Author:
Jean Bruyere
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This double burden of disease is rapidly putting a serious brake on the development efforts of many countries.
Author:
Gro Brundtland
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The burden of disease falls on the poor.
Author:
Gro Brundtland
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There I was limited to what happened the same way I am with Riel. It doesn't feel like a great burden to have your story, to some degree, set. I am enjoying figuring out what I think is the most dramatic way of telling this set of historical facts.
Author:
Chester Brown
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The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.
Author:
Phillips Brooks
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The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.
Author:
Phillips Brooks
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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
Author:
Christian Bovee
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Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
Author:
Corrie Boom
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Because the world is in economic recession, which worsened since this drama happened, and our country will bear the burden of all of these consequences.
Author:
Omar Bongo
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The burden of proof is now on the Palestinians... They must fight terrorism and dismantle its infrastructures in order to make possible progress on the roadmap.
Author:
Kjell Bondevik
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Respect the burden.
Author:
Napoleon Bonaparte
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We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.
Author:
Sissela Bok
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The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.
Author:
Nicolas Boileau
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In order to spur economic growth we need to put the brakes on out of control spending, lower Ohioans tax burden and create a most efficient and effective government.
Author:
Kenneth Blackwell
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The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight is tied to it, the burden of the body drags down the soul.
Author:
Vinoba Bhave
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
Author:
John Berger
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I think we have a number of young people - like yourself - who want to make a difference. I'm not sure the numbers are as large because I think the burden of getting elected to public office at the national level has become astronomically expensive.
Author:
Birch Bayh
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If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.
Author:
Edmund Barton
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Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
Author:
Hosea Ballou
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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
Author:
Isaac Asimov
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Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
Author:
Maya Angelou
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Look there are going to be, there are already adjustment processes in place but the point is that you'll actually make them work and get satisfactory outcomes if there's decent burden sharing along the way. If there's, if you like a proper transitional assistance.
Author:
John Anderson
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When I got the money, the whole burden descended on me, and the realization of what I had done. And it led me then to make the further step, a change of loyalties.
Author:
Aldrich Ames
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To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn't processing that.
Author:
Aldrich Ames
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The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.
Author:
Theodor Adorno
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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
Author:
Lord Acton
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If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
Author:
John Acton
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No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People sometimes meet that high burden and win libel suits, and in those cases I think they ought to win.
Author:
Floyd Abrams
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When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.
Author:
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.
Author:
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
