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"We can fill our lives with 'stuff,' but as we do we're concurrently filling our lives with the obligation to maintain that 'stuff."

"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."

"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."

"Plus, 40% of our debt is owned by foreign interest. I can't support a plan that passes along cost burden to our children and makes us more reliant on foreign dollars."
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"Oft when the white, still dawn lifted the skies and pushed the hills apart, I have felt it like a glory in my heart."

"Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!"

"The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?"

"There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own."

"Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world."
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