Best Deprivation Quotations
133 Deprivation quotes by 117 unique authors
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If you believe you can shed pounds quickly by force of will and deprivation, you will in all likelihood not only regain the ones you…
— Mireille Guiliano
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The global phenomenon of poverty tourism - or 'poorism' - has become increasingly popular during the past few years. Tourists pay to be guided through…
— Leslie Jamison
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Unlike the American President's chronic problem of finding ways to give away the country's permanent economic surplus, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's was the problem of…
— Elie Abel
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Our present stress on growth and productivity is, I believe, intimately related to the decline in rootedness. Faced with loneliness and vulnerability that come with…
— Paul L Wachtel
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Virtues are in the middle, the royal way about which the saintly elder (Saint Basil the Great) said, "Travel on the royal way and count…
— Dorotheus of Gaza
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We're beginning to realize that drowsiness or sleep deprivation, fatigue, is beginning to outstrip alcohol as a cause of accidents in transportation, particularly on the…
— William C. Dement
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The United States remains the last best hope for a mankind plagued by tyranny and deprivation. America is no stronger than its people -- and…
— Ronald Reagan
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Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb
— Robertson Davies
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Self-interest and mutual interest are inextricably linked. National interests can best be advanced through collective action, ... Calculate not just the human misery of the…
— Tony Blair
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In the past we used to think of poverty in absolute terms - meaning straightforward material deprivation... We need to think of poverty in relative…
— David Cameron
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If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life…
— Carrie P. Meek
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Other than his ex-wife and despite appearances with a series of cultivated blondes, Edward de Bono has never publicly aligned himself with a woman. 'I’m…
— Antonella Gambotto-Burke
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Labor produces marvels for the rich but it produces deprivation for the worker. It produces palaces, but hovels for the worker. It produces beauty, but…
— Karl Marx
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Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.
— Philip Larkin
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I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don't want people to think that 'Let's Move' is about complete, utter deprivation.…
— Michelle Obama
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Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is…
— Octavio Paz
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I mean, moderation, not deprivation. That's my new way of living.
— Carnie Wilson
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Childhood depression tends to be more common in inner cities, being most frequently related to serious social deprivation, bullying, domestic violence, wartime experience and famine.…
— Robert Winston
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How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered…
— Orhan Pamuk
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Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so long in human…
— Muhammad Yunus
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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
— Leonard Cohen
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Sullen monosyllabism, a sure sign of sleep deprivation.
— Jim Butcher
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Life would be impossible on such a planet. It wouldn't get enough heat and light, and if it rotated there would be total darkness half…
— Isaac Asimov
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I tell the kids that, even in a childhood marked by despair and deprivation, I knew that no matter what happened, I still had my…
— Bill Bryson
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In a way, it is beautiful to be young and hard up. With the right wife, and I had her, deprivation became a game.
— Wallace Stegner
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