Burden Quotes - Page 31

• What Democrats haven't focused on are the kind of policies that would promote economic growth - such as making permanent the 2001/2003 tax cuts, opening up federal lands to more energy production, and reforming government to reduce its burden on business.

  Bob Beauprez

  Cutting, Government, Land

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• The fellowship of true friends who can hear you out, share your joys, help carry your burdens, and correctly counsel you is priceless.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  True Friend, Joy, Fellowship

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Too often the pressure for popularity, on children and teens, places an economic burden on the income of the father, so mother feels she must go to work to satisfy her children's needs. That decision can be most shortsighted.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Mother, Children, Father

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars. Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard. We want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn't have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super-wealthy. That's not a tax raise. That's called fairness where I come from.

  Joe Biden

  Cutting, Class, Dollars

  "CBS Uncritically Promotes Obama Campaign's Attack Hinting Romney is 'Less than Truthful'". Interview with Nancy Cordes, www.newsbusters.org. October 5, 2012.

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• It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them.

  James Bovard

  Positive Thinking, People, Important

  "An Interview with James Bovard". "Talkin' to America" with Aaron Zelman, jpfo.org. January 25, 2006.

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• Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art, with few exceptions.

  Eli Broad

  Art, Museums, Exhibitions

  "Broad Brush Strokes: Q &A With Eli Broad". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2008.

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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.

  Phillips Brooks

  Christmas, Song, Xmas

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• A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.

  Harry Browne

  Inspirational, Shoulders, I Realized

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• The Union next to our liberties the most dear. May we all remember that it can only be preserved by respecting the rights of the States, and distributing equally the benefits and burdens of the Union.

  John C. Calhoun

  Rights, Liberty, Benefits

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• If the childhood obesity epidemic remains unchecked, it will condemn many of our kids to shorter lives, as well as the emotional and financial burdens of poor health.

  Richard Carmona

  Kids, Emotional, Epidemics

  "Childhood Obesity: Fighting for the Future Health of America’s Youth" by Richard H. Carmona, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2010.

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• I think we need to significantly reduce the regulatory burden on the private sector. The Obama administration is doing the opposite. They're loading on more and more regulation on the private respect to how the economy functions.

  Dick Cheney

  Thinking, Opposites, Needs

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• Hospitals are closing across the country due to the burden of illegal immigration, college students find that summer jobs have dried up due to illegal immigration, and wages across the board are depressed by the overwhelming influx of cheap and illegal labor.

  Elton Gallegly

  Summer, Country, Jobs

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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.

  John W. Gardner

  Education, Teaching, School

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• Rescuing women from their burden of unwarranted guilt is going to require "educational practices and socializing agents" even more effective than the ones that have been relentlessly loading female humans with responsibility for other people's behavior from their earliest childhood.

  Germaine Greer

  Educational, Responsibility, Practice

  "Guilt poisons women" by Germaine Greer, www.cnn.com. March 12, 2013.

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• I'm a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer choice, uses markets to allocate scarce resources and minimizes the regulatory burden on business.

  Gary Hamel

  Believe, Choices, Risk

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• Deleting 200 spams a day is a drag. And I was checking my email constantly, rather than getting on with my real work, which is reading and writing. Email was becoming a distraction, a burden rather than a liberation.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Real, Reading, Writing

  "Why I decided to pull the plug on email" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2007.

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• When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate. But it's one that you have to let go of ultimately.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Letting Go, Playing Someone, Accurate

  Interview with Meghan O'Rourke, www.slate.com. January 31, 2006.

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• For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Novelists, Culture, Kind

  "Khaled Hosseini, Kabul’s Splendid Son". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. May, 2009.

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• Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Use, Leisure

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1823). “The Works of Samuel Johnson: LL.D. A New Edition in Twelve Volumes. With an Essay on His Life and Genius, by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.118

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• I think there's just an inherent burden of being alive and being a woman. No man would ever admit that, but I think women know it, which is: You know more than men, you know more than most people you're dealing with every day, and you know that's it up to you to make things move forward, and you get paid half as much, but you just do it.

  Rashida Jones

  Moving, Men, Thinking

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• The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden.

  Jay-Z

  Feelings, Needs, Poverty

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• You only have the burdens on you that you choose to put there.

  Brandon Lee

  You Choose

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Not since the digital revolution in the early '90s has technology placed such a comprehensive burden on business, employees and individuals to reinvent their business plans, services and products, and themselves to keep pace with the changing marketplace.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Technology, Digital Revolution, Pace

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• When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Happiness, Fear, Journey

  Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

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• Sham marriages have been widespread; people have been allowed to settle in Britain without being able to speak English; and there have not been rules in place to stop migrants becoming a burden on the taxpayer. We are changing all of that.

  Theresa May

  Speak English, People, Migrants

  "Theresa May statement on deportation and human rights: Politics live blog" by Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2012.

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