Reducing the tax burden is necessary to produce economic growth.
The Church expects that each of us carry a share of the burden of leadership. There is no paid clergy. The work is done because of a love of the cause. And as people serve, they grow in capacity. The time and effort is not a sacrifice because there is returned more than is given.
Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens.
[W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.
The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
The ability to see the future can be a burden, and the younger you are and the more isolated you feel, maybe the more of a burden it is.
The emphasis has been on rights, not responsibilities. When it comes to piecing together the fragments of broken lives, we have tended to place the entire burden on the state and its agencies.
It still puts burden on some troops of ours who are there [in Afghanistan and Iraq] as advisors and facilitators.
When God places a burden upon you, He places His arms underneath you.
It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is, when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today, that the weight is more than a man can bear. Never load yourselves so, my friends. If you find yourselves so loaded, at least remember this: it is your own doing, not God's. He begs you to leave the future to Him, and mind the present.
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
Forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history. Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness against the dark. . . In the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.
Guilt is the one burden human beings can't bear alone.
Love, sought as an escape from the burden of the self, turns rapidly into a captivity.
Come let us mock at the great That had such burdens on the mind And toiled so hard and late To leave some monument behind, Nor thought of the leveling wind.
One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it.
Who can depart from his pain and aloneness without regret? Too many fragments of the spirit have I scattered in these streets, and too many are the children of my longing that walk naked among these hills, and I cannot withdraw from them without a burden and an ache. It is not a garment I cast off this day, bit a skin that I tear with my own hands. . . Yet I cannot tarry longer.
If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
Having lived in Utah all of my life, I can tell that in many ways I know of no place more lonely, no place more unfamiliar. When I talk about how it is both a blessing and a burden to have those kinds of roots, it can be terribly isolating, because when you are so familiar, you know the shadow.
The call of God is what gets you out of bed everyday, not a burden for something.