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Share the costs. There’s no reason why one person has to foot the bill for the entire meal, ask your holiday guests to contribute their favorite dish for your feast. It lightens the financial load. – Baruch Labunski	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If the statement is deliberately made vague, or if it lightens responsibility, it will once again rip open the wounds of China and the other victims, and rub salt in them. – Cheng Yonghua	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks. – James Baldwin	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Friendship throws a greater lustre on prosperity, while it lightens adversity by sharing in its griefs and troubles. – Cicero	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our lives. – Sri Madhava	added by anonymous 13 years ago
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. – Charles Dickens	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him. – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Share the costs. There’s no reason why one person has to foot the bill for the entire meal, ask your holiday guests to contribute their favorite dish for your feast. It lightens the financial load.

– Baruch Labunski

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If the statement is deliberately made vague, or if it lightens responsibility, it will once again rip open the wounds of China and the other victims, and rub salt in them.

– Cheng Yonghua

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

– James Baldwin

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Friendship throws a greater lustre on prosperity, while it lightens adversity by sharing in its griefs and troubles.

– Cicero

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our lives.

– Sri Madhava

added by anonymous
13 years ago

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

– Charles Dickens

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.

– Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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