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The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself. -- Seneca the Younger
Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty. -- John Selden
Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden. -- Amy Tan
It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task. -- Roald Dahl
For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture. -- Khaled Hosseini
Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life. -- Victoria Woodhull
Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art. -- Harold Prince
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Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all. -- Anton Chekhov
We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey. -- Ronald Reagan
Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. -- Susan Sontag
Without true medical liability reform, our doctors will continue to leave, and young doctors coming out of medical school $100,000 to $200,000 in debt will not be able to afford such onerous costs. -- Jim Gerlach
Cooking can be rewarding when it is a choice and no longer the onerous duty of the housewife, and when a dishwasher can lighten the load at the other end of the process. -- Julian Baggini
The crowning insult [of abortion] is that this ordeal is represented to her as some kind of a privilege.Her sad and onerous duty is garbed in the rhetoric of a civil right. -- Germaine Greer
The federal government needs to get off the backs of small businesses and let the private sector grow and create jobs instead of harnessing it with onerous regulations and a repressive tax code. -- Matt Salmon
Taxation according to income is the most effective instrument yet devised to obtain just contribution from those best able to bear it and to avoid placing onerous burdens upon the mass of our people. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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