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• Without intervention today, the cost of care for adults with autism will be significantly greater and the burden will no longer lie with the parents, but on our entire society.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Lying, Autism, Parent

  "Preventing Another Generation of Children With Autism" by Jenny McCarthy, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2012.

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• All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I'd worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: 'Don't hide these things from me. I'd rather you ask me these things straight out, and I'll answer all your questions.'

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Hurt, Worry

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• Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Police, Soldier, Training

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• And I think most people in this country want to see a president that's got the courage to say we're going to cut the tax burden, and reduce the regulatory climate, and we're going to get Americans working.

  Rick Perry

  Country, Cutting, Thinking

  "CNBC Transcript: CNBC’s John Harwood speaks with GOP Presidential Candidate Governor Rick Perry Today". "Squawk Box", www.cnbc.com. October 25, 2011.

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• I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.

  Sidney Poitier

  Intellectual, Fans, Action

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• We all have burdens and we need to learn to carry each other's burdens, lighten each other's load.

  Ann Romney

  Needs, Load

  "Ann Romney: You Gotta Have Faith" by Sunlen Miller, abcnews.go.com. June 15, 2007.

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• The Australian Government's decision to take on the dominant funding role for the entire public hospital system is designed to: end the blame game; eliminate waste; and to shoulder the funding burden of the rapidly rising health costs of the future.

  Kevin Rudd

  Government, Games, Decision

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not easy. To try to do it by placing the entire burden on women - 91% of single-parent families in Britain are headed by the mother, according to census data - is practically absurd and morally indefensible.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Mother, Growing Up, Father

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• We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.

  Haile Selassie

  Rain, Fall, Ignorance

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 6 October 1963

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• My kids say if there's any family dinner that doesn't result in somebody crying, it's not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It's like a family tradition.

  William Shatner

  Kids, Emotional, Guilt

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• I love creating partnerships; I love not having to bear the entire burden of the creative storytelling, and when I have unions like with George Lucas and Peter Jackson, it's really great; not only do I benefit, but the project is better for it.

  Steven Spielberg

  Creating, Creative, Benefits

  "Oscars Q&A: Steven Spielberg On 'War Horse's Four-Legged Actors, 3D And Lessons Learned". Interview with Mike Fleming Jr, deadline.com. February 01, 2012.

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• Politicians also have a love affair with the 'small business exemption.' Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it's an admission that the costs of a regulation just can't be justified.

  John Sununu

  Growth, Enough Time, Cost

  First Speech by Anne Ruston as representative of South Australia, www.anneruston.com.au. October 10, 2012.

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• Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.

  Desmond Tutu

  Xenophobia, Racism, Slavery

  Desmond Tutu, John Allen (2011). “God Is Not A Christian”, p.51, Random House

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• All the food that is put into the stomach that the system cannot derive benefit from, is a burden to nature in her work.

  Ellen G. White

  Benefits, Stomach

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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.

  David Wilkerson

  Faith, Three, Ministry

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• Corporations do not pay taxes, they collect them, passing the burden to consumers as a cost of production. And corporate taxation is a feast of rent-seeking - a cornucopia of credits, exemptions and other subsidies conferred by the political class on favored, and grateful, corporations.

  George Will

  Grateful, Class, Political

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• America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost.

  E. O. Wilson

  America, World, Cost

  "Darwin's natural heir" by Ed Douglas, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2001.

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• Carrying a grudge is a heavy burden. As you forgive, you will feel the joy of being forgiven.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Joy, Forgiving, Grudge

  Twitter post from Jan 21, 2016

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• Increased spiritual strength is a gift from God which He can give when we push in His service to our limits. Through the power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, our natures can be changed. Then our power to carry burdens can be increased more than enough to compensate for the increased service we will be asked to give.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Spiritual, Jesus, Giving

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• Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments.

  Natalie Jeremijenko

  Environmental, Together, Bears

  "Society's signposts / Natalie Jeremijenko's trees aren't simply decorative -- they can be read like a social register" by Zahid Sardar, www.sfgate.com. October 23, 2004.

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• The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.

  Anton Chekhov

  Men, Silence, Unhappy

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• Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still.

  T. S. Eliot

  Cracks, Decay, Slides

  Four Quartets "Burnt Norton" pt. 5 (1936)

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• So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden of error that it bore And what misfortune springs from man's desire... The world's frivolities have robbed me of the time That I was given for reflecting upon God.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Kings, Spring

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• Each day the storm clouds were opening like great purple flowers and pouring out their dark thunder. Each nightfall, the storm was laid down on their houses like a burden the day had carried.

  Eudora Welty

  Flower, Dark, Clouds

  Eudora Welty (1982). “The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty”, p.250, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Beneath the hush a whisper from long ago, promising peace of mind and a burden shared. No peace which is not peace for all, no rest until all has been fulfilled.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Long Ago, Mind, Hush

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