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All the food that is put into the stomach that the system cannot derive benefit from, is a burden to nature in her work.
Ellen G. White
Work
Food
Nature
Burden
Benefit
System
Put
Stomach
Cannot
Derive
Her
God did not burden the United States with a diversity of backgrounds, ideas and religions, He blessed America with them.
Emanuel Cleaver
God
Burden
Diversity
Blessed
Backgrounds
States
Religions
He
Ideas
America
Did
Them
United
United States
The only thing I consider appalling would be to suddenly become a vegetable and a burden on other people. A soul slowly dying out, trapped in a body in which the insides gradually sabotage me - that, I think, would be terrifying.
Ingmar Bergman
Me
Soul
People
Burden
Become
Trapped
Think
Other
Consider
Out
Would
Would-Be
Slowly
Only
Sabotage
Vegetable
Terrifying
Gradually
The Only Thing
Dying
Which
Body
Appalling
Suddenly
Thing
A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.
Jane Pauley
Burden
Enough
Secrecy
Shame
Without
Diagnosis
Burdened
Being
The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.
John W. Gardner
Education
School
Burden
Will
Own
Conviction
Else
Our
System
Individual
Pursuit
Shared
Over
Until
Buildings
Odd
Shift
Educational
Ultimate
His
Ultimate Goal
Goal
Get
Goes
Nowhere
Widely
If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
Rachel Maddow
Financial
Burden
Military
Colonists
Maintaining
Massive
Exist
America
Militarism
Rejected
British
I love creating partnerships; I love not having to bear the entire burden of the creative storytelling, and when I have unions like with George Lucas and Peter Jackson, it's really great; not only do I benefit, but the project is better for it.
Steven Spielberg
Love
Great
Creative
Better
Burden
Unions
Benefit
Project
Entire
Having
Only
Bear
Like
Partnerships
George
George Lucas
Jackson
Storytelling
Really
Creating
Lucas
Peter
Peter Jackson
It is always easier to requite an injury than a service: gratitude is a burden, but revenge is found to pay.
Tacitus
Service
Gratitude
Revenge
Burden
Pay
Easier
Always
Than
Found
Injury
There's nothing heavier than the weight of sin in our lives. It's crushing. What a luxury to know the burden of it can be lifted off our shoulders if we repent and give it to God.
Terri Blackstock
God
Burden
Luxury
Nothing
Our
Our Lives
Give
Lifted
Weight
Sin
Crushing
Know
Repent
Off
Than
Heavier
Shoulders
Lives
Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden.
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Life
Journey
Burden
Long
Long Journey
Like
Unto
Heavy
Heavy Burden
Some carry the burden of bitterness and resentfulness for many years.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
Burden
Bitterness
Carry
Some
Years
Many
It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift.
Abdullah II of Jordan
Leadership
Family
Burden
Responsibility
Drop
Tremendous
Direct
Prophet
Had
Ball
Shift
Years
Going
Shoulders
Muhammad
Descendants
As a young physician in the mid-'80s, caring for people who had contracted H.I.V., I lost two of my patients to suicide at a time when the virus was doing very little harm to them. I have always thought of them as having been killed by a metaphor, by the burden of secrecy and shame associated with the disease.
Abraham Verghese
Time
People
Burden
Thought
Physician
Lost
Young
Suicide
Secrecy
Caring
Virus
Having
Shame
Had
Always
Metaphor
Doing
Been
Contracted
Very
Disease
Patients
Little
Them
Who
Two
Associated
Harm
When you're writing stuff that's already clotted with neologisms and trying to get across fairly abstruse concepts, you're already putting a heavy burden on the reader.
Alastair Reynolds
You
Writing
Burden
Putting
Stuff
Concepts
Fairly
Reader
Get
Trying
Heavy
Heavy Burden
Across
Yes, as an oppressed people, American Indians have this epic burden, but first and foremost, they're human: sometimes a mess, sometimes funny or sad, at times very wise, and other times not wise at all - a lot like me.
Alexandra Fuller
Sad
Funny
Me
Wise
People
Sometimes
Burden
First
Other
Indians
Like
Mess
Oppressed
Foremost
Lot
Yes
Very
Times
American
Human
American Indians
Epic
I think with the smaller-scale projects, the burden for success falls more squarely on the shoulders of the actors and the director and the script.
Alexis Denisof
Success
Director
Burden
Think
Projects
More
Falls
Squarely
Script
Shoulders
Actor
I'm always for lower taxes because lower taxes make people want to do things. Less burden, more fun, and economics is about people wanting to have fun. Growth is fun for people in the marketplace.
Amity Shlaes
People
Have Fun
Burden
Economics
Marketplace
About
More
Make
Because
Always
Want
Wanting
Taxes
Lower
Lower Taxes
Less
Fun
Growth
Things
Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.
Amy Tan
Culture
Burden
Responsibility
Writers
Represent
Placing
The burden of citizenship is accepting that what is neither your fault nor your responsibility may be your problem.
Anand Giridharadas
Problem
Fault
Burden
Responsibility
Neither
Citizenship
Accepting
Nor
May
Your
I know very well that Berlin attaches great importance to NATO and solidarity, in terms of sharing the burden. For this reason, I feel confident that the German government will take the right decision, one that serves both German and NATO interests.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Government
Great
Burden
Decision
Right Decision
Will
NATO
Solidarity
Berlin
Both
Take
Sharing
Feel
Importance
Know
Terms
Well
German
Very
Confident
Interests
Reason
Serve
Right
I think, as a writer, sometimes you do worry, 'Am I just writing, or am I putting the burden of African-Americans on my shoulder and carrying it?' But if we just write the stories that we're supposed to write, that's when we have the biggest impact.
Angie Thomas
You
Writing
Sometimes
Burden
Think
Worry
Carrying
Impact
Write
Writer
Putting
Supposed
Am
Just
Stories
Biggest
Shoulder
I don't want to carry the burden of a flop. I don't fall into that trap.
Anushka Sharma
Burden
Fall
Carry
Want
Trap
Flop
Why should a country have to take on itself a huge burden of managing a totally cash economy?
Arundhati Bhattacharya
Burden
Country
Totally
Cash
Take
Economy
Huge
Itself
Managing
Should
Why
Black women are supposed to be 'strong,' but the burden of carrying our race and carrying our families adds the pressure.
Aunjanue Ellis
Women
Strong
Burden
Pressure
Black
Be Strong
Our
Adds
Carrying
Supposed
Women Are
Families
Race
America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of war and to share the responsibility and the economic cost of rebuilding Iraq.
Barbara Mikulski
War
Burden
Responsibility
Diplomacy
Willing
Must
Cost
Economic
Share
Continue
Iraq
Expand
America
Coalition
Even
Rebuilding
Knowing that girls are inspired to not have the burden of self-hate, even if it's a tiny way, makes me happy to no end. It gets me up in the morning and softens a lot of the blows I get.
Barbie Ferreira
Morning
Me
Happy
Burden
Girl
Way
Inspired
Knowing
Makes
Lot
End
Up
Get
Blows
Gets
Tiny
Even
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