Burden Quotes - Page 11

• A lot of what children go through is because you adults don't carry the burden yourself.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Children, Women, Adults

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• Whatever my doubts, however heavy the burden, I feel that I must accept the task of helping to make this nation and this world a better place to live in - for all men, black and white alike.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Black And White, Men, Doubt

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• I'm not a southern lady, I'm from Pennsylvania and we speak sort of correctly there. People identify me that way and they also easily identify me on the street because of my short stature. I get picked out in many ways and no way is a burden.

  Zelda Rubinstein

  People, Southern, Pennsylvania

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; he had acute sensibility to the higher forces. Fire taught him secrets that no other animal could learn; running water probably taught him even more, especially in his first lessons of mechanics; the animals helped to educate him, trusting themselves into his hands merely for the sake of their food, and carrying his burdens or supplying his clothing; the grasses and grains were academies of study.

  Henry Adams

  Running, Men, Animal

  Henry Adams (2009). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.726, The Floating Press

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• Eventually, with regret, I left the religious life, and, once freed of the burden of failure and inadequacy, I felt my belief in God slip quietly away. He had never really impinged upon my life, though I had done my best to enable him to do so. Now that I no longer felt so guilty and anxious about him, he became too remote to be a reality.

  Karen Armstrong

  Religious, Regret, Reality

  "A History of God". Book by Karen Armstrong, 1993.

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• There is nothing, under present conditions, that can be more easily and exactly reproduced than a technically good black-and-white photograph, and it is utter rot to burden those interested in them with irrelevant biographical trivia and pet longwinded theory.

  Clarence John Laughlin

  Black And White, Pet, Trivia

  Clarence John Laughlin, Lafcadio Hearn, Philadelphia Museum of Art (1973). “Clarence John Laughlin: the personal eye”

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• There is no greater burden than choosing who to save.

  Kamahl

  Greater

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• I think when we talk about corporal punishment, and we have to think about our own children, and we are rather reluctant, it seems to me, to have other people administering punishment to our own children, because we are reluctant, it puts a special obligation on us to maintain order and to send children out from our homes who accept the idea of discipline. So I would not be for corporal punishment in the school, but I would be for very strong discipline at home so we don't place an unfair burden on our teachers.

  John F. Kennedy

  Teacher, Strong, Children

  News Conference 56, May 22, 1963.

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• I believe with all my heart God's Story has a happy ending. . . But not yet, not necessarily yet. It takes faith to hold on to that in the face of the great burden of experience, which seems to prove otherwise.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Believe, Heart, Stories

  Elisabeth Elliot (2015). “Through Gates of Splendor”, p.269, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• If not for the cost burdens of fear we would all be living in paradise

  Richard Gerber

  Cost, Paradise, Ifs

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• This is not the time for political fun and games. This is the time for a new beginning. I ask you now to put aside any feelings of frustration or helplessness about our political institutions and join me in this dramatic but responsible plan to reduce the enormous burden of Federal taxation on you and your family.

  Ronald Reagan

  Fun, New Beginnings, Frustration

  Reagan, Ronald (1982). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981”, p.668, Best Books on

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• So far as the object of taxation is to raise a revenue for discharging the debts and defraying the expenses of the community, its operation should be adapted as much as possible to suit the burden with equal hand upon all in proportion with their ability of bearing it without oppression.

  John Quincy Adams

  Hands, Community, Taxation

  John Quincy Adams, Kenneth V. Jones, United States. President (1825-1829 : Adams) (1970). “John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• The burden of the national debt consists not in its being so many millions, or so many hundred millions, but in the quantity of taxes collected every year to pay the interest. If this quantity continue the same, the burden of the national debt is the same to all intents and purposes, be the capital more or less.

  Thomas Paine

  Years, Purpose, Debt

  Thomas Paine (1852). “The Rights of Man: With a Brief Historical Preface”, p.179

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• The continual whine of lamenting the burden of taxes, however successfully it may be practiced in mixed governments, is inconsistent with the sense and spirit of a republic. If taxes are necessary, they are of course advantageous, but if they require an apology, the apology itself implies an impeachment. Why, then, is man imposed upon, or why does he impose upon himself?

  Thomas Paine

  Apology, Men, Doe

  Thomas Paine (1854). “The Works of Thomas Paine: A Hero in the American Revolution. With an Account of His Life ...”, p.104

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• Why, I say, that to tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection; it is plunder, and I entirely disclaim it; but I ask you to protect the rights and interests of labour generally in the first place, by allowing no free imports from countries which meet you with countervailing duties; and, in the second place, with respect to agricultural produce, to compensate the soil for the burdens from which other classes are free by an equivalent duty. This is my view of what is called "protection."

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Rights, Views

  Benjamin Disraeli's speech in the House of Commons, May 14, 1850.

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• O drink is mighty! secrets it unlocks, Turns hope to fact, sets cowards on to box, Takes burdens from the careworn, finds out parts In stupid folks, and teaches unknown arts. What tongue hangs fire when quickened by the bowl? What wretch so poor but wine expands his soul?

  Horace

  Art, Stupid, Wine

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.362, Delphi Classics

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• I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage who pay taxes or bear arms, by no means excluding females.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mean, Government, Female

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.144, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Words change their meanings, just as organisms evolve. We would impose an enormous burden on our economy if we insisted on payment in cattle every time we identified a bonus as a pecuniary advantage (from the Latin pecus , or cattle, a verbal fossil from a former commercial reality).

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Latin, Reality, Bonus

  Stephen Jay Gould (2002). “The Structure of Evolutionary Theory”, p.1070, Harvard University Press

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• A man who murders another shortens by a few brief years the life of a human being; but he who votes to increase the burden of debts upon the people of the United States assumes a graver responsibility.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Responsibility, Men, Years

  William Jennings Bryan, Mary Baird Bryan (1900). “The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan”

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• Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren't afraid of truth.

  Orson Scott Card

  Knowing, May, Bears

  Orson Scott Card (2004). “The Crystal City: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.87, Macmillan

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• While journalists cannot right every wrong, champion every cause or fix every problem, they can - through the written word - lift someone's burden for a day, make some elderly woman on a bus smile or let them know they are noticed by someone.

  Regina Brett

  Elderly, Champion, Causes

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• The human mind is utterly stupid when it carries, quite willingly, the heavy burden of resentment.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Stupid, Mind, Resentment

  "Seventy Seven Thousand Service-Trees". Poetry series by Sri Chinmoy (#16575, Part 17), 1998.

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• If your judgement is clouded, you must be carrying too many things which are being a burden to you.

  Yoko Ono

  Judgement, Clouded, Ifs

  Twitter post from Oct 25, 2015

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• Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.

  Frank Herbert

  Agreement, Wish, Tradition

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.134, Penguin

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• The West has not lived through totalitarianism, with a single ideology for 70 years.We are escaping from the burden of the past, and onlyafter we have done that will we be ready to integrate with Europeand Europe needs Russia.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Past, Russia, Escaping

  1991 Addressing socialist MPs in Strasbourg, 15 Apr.

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