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Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Freedom, Human, Person

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
Albert Camus

Rock, Thought, Reason

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
Theodore Roosevelt

Good, Able, Shall

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
Albert Camus

God, Alone, Days

Never order food in excess of your body weight.
Erma Bombeck

Food, Body, Order

Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.
Erma Bombeck

Age, Strength, Him

I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.
Walt Disney

Famous, Around, Throw

Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.
Munshi Premchand

Beauty, Bear, Softness

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

May, Learned, Training

If I am elected President, the Castro regime will have no reason to doubt our unwavering commitment to your cause. The regime will feel the full weight of American resolve.
Mitt Romney

Doubt, Reason, American

I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.
Adele

Music, Someone, Done

From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Free, Earth, Birth

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life, Great, Happy

Often times when you face such an overwhelming challenge as global climate change, it can be somewhat daunting - it's kind of like trying to lose weight, which I know something about.
Hillary Clinton

Change, Trying, Challenge

Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.
Barbara Boxer

Country, Vote, Voting

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.
Sophocles

Life, Love, Pain

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
Thomas Huxley

Patience, Worth, Tenacity

It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
Isaac Newton

Numbers, Regarded

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.
Rudyard Kipling

Fire, Small, Less

The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it.
Edward Koch

Best, Food, Difficult

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.
Miriam Makeba

Nature, Strength, Racism

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
Josh Billings

Him, Same, Training

People are starting to go on about my weight but I'm not going to change my size because they don't like the way I look.
Adele

Change, Starting, Size

Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.
Pope Benedict XVI

War, Death, May

I used to beat myself up about weight and working out, and no matter what I did I never felt good about myself. I decided to accept myself and know that I am good.
Ellen DeGeneres

Good, Working, Matter

The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.
Bernard De Voto

Heart, Bad, Sun

Tears at times have the weight of speech.
Ovid

Times, Speech, Tears

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
Lord Chesterfield

Knowledge, May, Give

There are six components of wellness: proper weight and diet, proper exercise, breaking the smoking habit, control of alcohol, stress management and periodic exams.
Kenneth H. Cooper

Diet, Stress, Control

Statistically, if you have ever dieted you are extremely likely not only to regain any weight you lose, but to go on to gain even more. Dieting makes you fat.
Arabella Weir

Lose, Makes, Fat

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