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"What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear."
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""Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights."

"Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment."

"A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility."
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"The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit."

"Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys."

"The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest."

"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."

"If the Administration does nothing, high gasoline prices will continue to increasingly burden our economy, taking millions of dollars out of the hands of families and putting it straight into the pockets of OPEC."

"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."

"We must have a relentless commitment to producing a meaningful, comprehensive energy package aimed at conservation, alleviating the burden of energy prices on consumers, decreasing our country's dependency on foreign oil, and increasing electricity grid reliability."
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