#burden

Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#becomes #burden #century #creative #creative process

We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it. ↗

— John Newton

#again #appointed #bear #before #burden

I saw him... at peace in my armchair. I remember wishing he could stay in peace like that forever. I had a feeling of easing his burden with my strength. ↗

— Dennis Nilsen

#burden #could #easing #feeling #forever

The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind. ↗

— Max Nordau

#burden #dances #feeling #his #idea

Near-term deficits are temporary and manageable if - and only if - we keep spending in check, the tax burden low and the economy growing. ↗

— Jim Nussle

#check #deficits #economy #growing #keep

If NASA is to reach beyond the Moon and someday reach Mars, it must be relieved of the burden of launching people and cargo to low earth orbit. To do that, we must invest more in commercial spaceflight. ↗

— Bill Nye

#burden #cargo #commercial #earth #invest

Why isn't it natural for people who have lived and worked at something to want to use the knowledge and capacity in a new way, free from the burden of making a living? ↗

— James Rouse

#capacity #free #knowledge #lived #living

An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch. ↗

— Patti Smith

#artists #burdens #citizen #even #know

Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. ↗

— M. Kathleen Casey

#burden #camel #free #freeing #him

I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#armaments #burdensome #came #enormous #governments