Quotes with burden

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  • George Bernard Shaw Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Blanka Vlasic Since I became a favorite in every race, it's just another burden that I have to bear.
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling Take up the White Man's burden - send forth the best ye breed - go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Ban Ki-moon The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Rabindranath Tagore The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
    Rabindranath Tagore
    Indian mystic and poet (1861 - 1941)
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  • Ovid The burden which is well borne becomes light.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • John Berger 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.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Orson Welles The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Bruce Jackson 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.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Jean de la Bruyère The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Bjornstjerne Bjornson The greater the burden a man takes upon his shoulders, the stronger he must be to carry it. No words are unmentionable, no action or horror beyond powers of description, if one is equal to them.
    Bjornstjerne Bjornson
    Norwegian writer (1832 - 1910)
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  • Bob Barr The legal principle placing the burden of proof on accusers rather than the accused can be traced back to Second and Third Century Roman jurist, Julius Paulus Prudentissimus. Yet, this ancient concept, which forms the legal and moral cornerstone of the American judicial system, is quickly being undermined in the name of 'national security.'
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Benjamin Graham The money cost of the reservoir plan literally fades into insignificance when it is compared with the financial burden which the great depression imposed on the nation.
    Storage and Stability Part II, Ch. IX, The Cost of the Reservoir Plan, p
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • William Shakespeare The teeming Autumn big with rich increase, bearing the wanton burden of the prime like widowed wombs after their lords decease.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Phillips Brooks 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.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Allen Ginsberg The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.
    Allen Ginsberg
    American poet (1926 - 1997)
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  • Fawn M. Brodie There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it or not, it is there, haunting his daydreams when the burden of debt is most unbearable.
    Fawn M. Brodie
    American historian and biographer (1915 - 1981)
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  • Hosea Ballou Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
    Hosea Ballou
    American Theologian, Founder of ''Universalism'' (1771 - 1852)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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