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Jai Ganesh

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Burden Quotes - I

Burden Quotes - I

1. Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. - John F. Kennedy

2. I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

3. I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present. - Narendra Modi

4. No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else. - Charles Dickinson

5. He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden. - Plato

6. The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself. - Rabindranath Tagore

7. What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous. - Voltaire

8. 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

9. What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories. - W. Somerset Maugham

10. Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden. - Desmond Tutu

11. Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. - Gilbert K. Chesterton

12. Respect the burden. - Napoleon Bonaparte.

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.