"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."

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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."

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"When you're truly awesome, you know that it's actually a burden and wish day after day to be relieved of such a curse. Think of about 95% of the superheroes."

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"Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process."

Lawrence Lessig, American Educator

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"We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it."

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"Every document, apparently ancient, coming from the proper repository or custody, and bearing on its face no evident marks of forger, the law presumes to be genuine, and devolves on the opposing party the burden of proving it to be otherwise."

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"Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane."

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"History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it."

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