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• If you're ever if you're ever thinking, “Oh, but I'm a waste of space and I'm a burden,” remember: that also describes the Grand Canyon. Why don't you have friends and family take pictures of you from a safe distance? Revel in your majestic profile?

  Maria Bamford

  Inspirational, Family, Distance

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• Growing up, I thought wearing a suit was a burden.

  Vincent Piazza

  Growing Up, Suits, Wearing A Suit

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• And, I know that I'll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad.

  Jerry Falwell

  Religious, Baby, Humor

  "The 700 Club" with Pat Robertson, September 13, 2001.

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• Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in the expectation that those who have had a virtuous moral upbringing will respond, yet he is bound to impose chastisement and penalties on the disobedient and ill-conditioned, and to banish the incorrigible out of the state altogether. For (they argue) although the virtuous man, who guides his life by moral ideals, will be obedient to reason, the base, whose desires are fixed on pleasure, must be chastised by pain, like a beast of burden.

  Aristotle

  Pain, Men, Law

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• We do not need committees but we need commitment. The nation is already reeling under the burden of several committees formed in the last decade.

  Narendra Modi

  Commitment, India, Needs

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• There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.

  Vikram Seth

  Boys, Posters, Feels

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• However, for the man who studies to gain insight, books and studies are merely rungs of the ladder on which he climbs to the summit of knowledge. As soon as a rung has raised him up one step, he leaves it behind. On the other hand, the many who study in order to fill their memory do not use the rungs of the ladder for climbing, but take them off and load themselves with them to take away, rejoicing at the increasing weight of the burden. They remain below forever, because they bear what should have bourne them.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Memories, Book, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.93, Publishdrive

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• One can't erase the tremendous burden of apartheid in 10 years, 20 years, I believe, even 30 years.

  Susan Rice

  Believe, Years, Apartheid

  "Road to Riches". Interview with Mishal Husain, www.pbs.org. August 28, 2003.

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• I feel that if I am freed of the burden of politics, then I can do more and I can take more unpopular decisions. I can have as my guidance for decision whatever is right, not whatever is popular.

  Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

  Decision, Guidance, Feels

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• Nobody needs to justify why they "need" a right: the burden of justification falls on the one seeking to infringe upon the right. But even if they did, you can't give away the rights of others because they're not useful to you. More simply, the majority cannot vote away the natural rights of the minority. Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.

  Edward Snowden

  Fall, Rights, Giving

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. May 21, 2015.

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• We are all prisoners at one time or another in our lives, prisoners to ourselves or to the expectations of those around us. It is a burden that all people endure, that all people despise, and that few people ever learn to escape.

  R. A. Salvatore

  People, Expectations, Despise

  R.A. Salvatore (2009). “Exile: The Legend of Drizzt”, p.176, Wizards of the Coast

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• Love alone makes heavy burdens light and bears in equal balance things pleasing and displeasing. Love bears a heavy burden and does not feel it, and love makes bitter things tasteful and sweet.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Sweet, Love Is, Light

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• every issue that we deal with in this country has a moral component to it. And so, to divorce a moral component to the debt burden we're leaving the next generation, the tax structure to how we spend our money in Washington, and how we - you know, how we value human life - I mean, all of those things, to me interrelate. They're not - they're not separate issues.

  Rick Santorum

  Country, Mean, Divorce

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• To the rich, therefore, falls the burden of Beauty. And if they cannot assume it, then they deserve to die.

  Muriel Barbery

  Fall, Assuming, Rich

  Muriel Barbery (2013). “The Elegance of the Hedgehog”, p.85, Gallic Books

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• Whenever you have a proclamation of being chosen, it's always a self-defining process. It's always the people who are chosen who say they are chosen. They never say that about the other. If you're going to say, "I'm chosen," it loads you with a very heavy burden.

  Anne Provoost

  Self, People, Defining

  Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. July 14, 2006.

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• Three helping one another, beare the burthen of sixe.
  [Three helping one another, bear the burden of six.]

  George Herbert

  Three, Bears, Six

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• The call of God is what gets you out of bed everyday, not a burden for something.

  Tommy Barnett

  Everyday, Bed

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• Define self-awareness and tell me what it is about it that requires something more than a material explanation. I do not accept the burden of explaining all phenomena, real or imagined. If you think more than matter is required for this thing you call self-awareness, which you have not defined, then you have the burden of showing why.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Real, Thinking, Self

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• Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. We join a mass movement to escape from individual responsibility, or, in the words of an ardent young Nazi, to be free from freedom. It was not sheer hypocrisy when the rank-and-file Nazis declared themselves not guilty of all the enormities they had committed. They considered themselves cheated and maligned when made to shoulder responsibility for obeying orders. Had they not joined the Nazi movement in order to be free from responsibility?

  Eric Hoffer

  Responsibility, Men, Order

  "The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements". Book by Eric Hoffer. Section 26, 1951.

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• What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It's the weight on our shoulders. That is what's actually different. We have the weight and burden of history.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Responsibility, People, Black

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Sometimes I find it too hot to run, and sometimes too cold. Or too cloudy. But I still go running. I know that if I didn't go running, I wouldn't go the next day either. It's not in human nature to take unnecessary burdens upon oneself, so one's body soon becomes disaccustomed. It mustn't do that. It's the same with writing. I write every day so that my mind doesn't become disaccustomed.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Writing, Next Day

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We are here because we are made by God, we will return to God. So people who think that they are something, they are totally wrong. And this is the most beautiful thing in life, it is that we don't own anything. So, everything is ours in the sense that we have the world to explore and not things to carry, a burden to carry.

  Paulo Coelho

  Beautiful, Thinking, Things In Life

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• Fewer and fewer people are paying larger and larger percentage of the tax burden, as you know, almost half the people pay no income taxes at all. We're going to have more people in the wagon than we got pulling the wagon before long and that's not going to work. Those jobless numbers, you know, go hand-in-hand with those tax numbers.

  Fred Thompson

  Numbers, Hands, Long

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Sexually-transmitted diseases is caused by sexual activity and promiscuity it spreads diseases. That's been known, you know, about 400 or 500 years, that somehow these diseases are spread. If fault comes with people because of their personal behavior but it isn't to be placed on a burden on other people, innocent people, why should they have to pay for the consequences?

  Ron Paul

  Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Years, People

  "Reps. Ron Paul, Michele Bachmann and Gov. Rick Perry on Final Push in Iowa". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. January 1, 2012.

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• People should meet an acceptable threshold of appropriateness. But for many women in the public eye, it just seems that the burden is so heavy.

  Hillary Clinton

  Eye, People, Should

  Source: www.glamour.com

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