#burden

To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn't processing that. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

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The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility. ↗

— Georges Bataille

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In order to spur economic growth we need to put the brakes on out of control spending, lower Ohioans tax burden and create a most efficient and effective government. ↗

— Kenneth Blackwell

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Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as king as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love. ↗

— Edward VIII

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The dreadful burden of having nothing to do. ↗

— Nicolas Boileau

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How do we know that Moses was grown up? Because he went out unto his brethren, and was ready to bear the burdens and share the plight of his people. Maturity is sensitivity to human suffering. ↗

— Julius Gordon

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Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. ↗

— Peter S. Beagle

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It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages. ↗

— Bainbridge Colby

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Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt. ↗

— Bill Delahunt

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