"Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations."

Burden, Generations

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"Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations."

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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."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

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"I've been alive a long time, long enough to know that the more baggage you carry in life, the more unstable you'll be, until eventually you get sick of carrying it, and then you just fall down."

Rebecca McNutt, Canadian Author

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"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."

Paul Gillmor, American Politician

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"If it is a relief to take your clothes off at night, be sure that something is wrong. Clothes should not be a burden. They should be a comfort and a protection."

Ellen Richards, American Environmental Chemist

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"Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition."

Isaac Asimov, American Scientist

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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."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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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."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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

Christian Nestell Bovee, American Author

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"We finally sat down and asked ourselves how much of our lives we wanted to give everybody. We had just given a little too much, and it started to become a burden."

Brian Austin Green, American Actor

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"I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden."

Leo Ornstein, American Composer

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"To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression."

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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."

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"In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people."

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"If men were angels, no government would be necessary."

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"I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property."

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"There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong."

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