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Indifference is the dead weight of history. -- Antonio Gramsci
Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time. -- William S. Burroughs
Libraries can be of indispensable service in lifting the dead weight of poverty and ignorance. -- Francis Keppel
Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past. -- Michael Simkins
all government, whatever its forms or pretenses, is a dead weight that paralyzes the free spirit and activities of the masses. -- Emma Goldman
I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us. -- Howard Mumford Jones
History is full of the dead weight of things which have escaped the control of the mind, yet drive man on with a blind force. -- F. M. Powicke
If you're unlucky enough not to have alcoholic parents, it takes you a whole lifetime of intoxication to overcome the dead weight of their virtues. -- Emile M. Cioran
When you're dead weight, in the right position, you win. And in reality, you wouldn't see someone my size kicking seven martial arts experts and winning. -- Joan Severance
So now I have sworn to bury All this dead body of hate I feel so free and so clear By the loss of that dead weight -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Women always think you need a man, you need a father, as if they'd be the slightest use. Men are a dead weight, they're clumsy and maladjusted. -- Yasmina Reza
Higher thought forms trump lower ones. In the presence of a high frequency of human consciousness, all lower thought forms ultimately drop of their own dead weight. -- Marianne Williamson
We are failing to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying . . . a dead weight of human waste . . .an ever-increasing spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all -- Margaret Sanger
The welfare state has bred a generation of obnoxious, drug-addled criminals and ne'er-do-wells. It has also, incidentally, burdened what was once the world's biggest, most dynamic economy with the dead weight of an obstructive and vastly expensive state machine. -- Martin Durkin
A 'real' person, profoundly as we may sympathise with him, is in a great measure perceptible only through our senses, that is to say, he remains opaque, offers a dead weight which our sensibilities have not the strength to lift. -- Marcel Proust
The secret of meditation is the art of unlearning. Mind is learning; meditation is unlearning: that is - die constantly to your experience; let it not imprison you; experience becomes a dead weight in the living and flowing, riverlike consciousness. -- Rajneesh
The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the future.Cut loose the past; it is dead weight.Let the Extirpation continue. Let it never end. -- Stephen Baxter
Pedantry and bigotry are millstones, able to sink the best book which carries the least part of their dead weight. The temper of the pedagogue suits not with the age; and the world, however it may be taught, will not be tutored. -- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
The wonder is not that the world is so easily governed, but that so small a number of persons will suffice for the purpose. There are dead weights in political and legislative bodies as in clocks, and hundreds answer as pulleys who would never do for politicians. -- William Gilmore Simms
As long as we're focused on spending, there are only two ways to do that: One is spend less, and Democrats have no solutions for that. Or we have pro-growth policies that make the economy grow so the dead-weight cost of government becomes a smaller percentage of the economy and therefore less expensive. -- Grover Norquist
If watching your child die is a parent's worst nightmare, imagine having to tell your other child that his sister is dead... Although I am certain that he cried, that we all cried, what I remember more is how we collapsed into each other, as if the weight of our loss literally crushed us. -- Ann Hood
The weight of the dead was heavier than the pounds of the body. -- J.R. Ward
Where is the society which does not struggle along under a dead-weight of tradition and law inherited from its grandfather? -- Suzanne La Follette
Every lie a person tells is an emotional dead end road that puts weight on the heart. Satisfaction is always in the truth. -- Ron Baratono
The Atkins' diet is where you eat bacon for six or seven months...and the end result is that you lose weight. Because you're dead. -- Michael Ian Black

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