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Dag Hammarskjold

"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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"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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"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."

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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."

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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."

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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."

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

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

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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."

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

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