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People don't actually want to think about their own health and don't take action until they are sick. Yet employers are very motivated to get their employees healthy, since they bear most of the burden of their health care costs.

~Clayton Christensen

Topics: About Action Actually Bear Burden Care Care Costs Costs Employees Employers Get Health Health Care Health Care Costs Healthy Most Motivated Own People Sick Since Take Think Until Very Want

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Black artists deserve the opportunity to create work without the burden of alleviating the social ills plaguing many black communities.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Artists Black Burden Communities Create Deserve Ills Many Opportunity Social Without Work

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If you are a rich person straining every sinew to keep every last pound in your pocket, there comes a point when you realize you are not just escaping the clutches of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. You are passing a greater burden on to people poorer than yourself, and depriving even poorer people of your support.

~Clive Anderson

Topics: Burden Clutch Depriving Escaping Even Every Greater Just Keep Last Passing People Person Pocket Point Poorer Pound Realize Rich Support Than You Your Yourself

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I started writing in the '90s, so I was free to just have an eccentric career and not conform to some idea of what a black writer has to do. I didn't have the burden of representation.

~Colson Whitehead

Topics: Black Burden Career Conform Eccentric Free Idea Just Representation Some Started Writer Writing

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Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

~Coretta Scott King

Topics: Bear Burden Great Hate Hated Hater More Than Too

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Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

~Corrie Ten Boom

Topics: Any Burden Concern Made Prayer Small Too Turned

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We must again carry the burden of our people and shoulder our commitment to leading them to the promised land.

~Cyril Ramaphosa

Topics: Again Burden Carry Commitment Land Leading Must Our Our People People Promised Promised Land Shoulder Them

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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.

~Dag Hammarskjold

Topics: Anguish Bear Burden Loneliness Makes My Own Only Own Share

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I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason - to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.

~Dalai Lama

Topics: Burden Carry Dalai Dalai Lama Felt Involvement Lama Must Old Political Protect Reason Responsibility Safer Selfish Separate Should Tradition Without

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Liberty is never fully paid off, and to be deserving of it, one must be willing to fight for it on the battlefield, in the halls of Congress, by involving yourselves in your communities. Such a struggle is not a burden, it is a privilege.

~Dana Loesch

Topics: Battlefield Burden Communities Congress Deserving Fight Fully Halls Involving Liberty Must Never Off Paid Privilege Struggle Willing Your

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