Best Deprives Quotes
59 Deprives quotes by 51 unique authors
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I persist in preferring philosophers to rabbis priests imams ayatollahs and mullahs. Rather than trust their theological hocus-pocus I prefer to draw on alternatives to…
— Michel Onfray
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The interior deprives men of their senses. Here, the eerie stillness of the wilderness and the darkness of night render the men both deaf and…
— Joseph Conrad
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If we do not use great care to mortify our will, there are many things which can deprives us of the holy freedom of spirit…
— Teresa of Avila
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No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half of its citizens.
— Michelle Obama
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We are assailed by the temptation of the love of money. If you wish to acquire riches ? they are the bait of the fishers…
— Pachomius the Great
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There is no worse material poverty, I am keen to stress, than the poverty which prevents people from earning their bread and deprives them of…
— Pope Francis
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Do not procrastinate. Someone has said that procrastination is the thief of time. Actually, procrastination is much more. It is the thief of our self-respect.…
— Thomas S. Monson
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There is no worse material poverty than one that does not allow for earning one’s bread and deprives one of the dignity of work. Youth…
— Pope Francis
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Television deprives children of their imaginations.
— Theodore Isaac Rubin
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Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every…
— Giacomo Leopardi
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Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live.
— Rebecca Solnit
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The fact that there is nothing but a spiritual world deprives us of hope and gives us certainty.
— Franz Kafka
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Find the compensatory blessings in your life when, in the wisdom of the Lord, He deprives you of something you very much want… You will…
— Richard G. Scott
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When one gives up Christian belief one thereby deprives oneself of the right to Christian morality. For the latter is absolutely not self-evident: one must…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, deprives attention of its power, thought of its originality, and sentiment of its depth.
— Madame de Stael
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I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his…
— Thomas Mann
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I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists…
— Paul Ryan
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it is wrong to chide the novel for being fascinated by mysterious coincidences... but it is right to chide man for being blind to such…
— Milan Kundera
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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
— Oscar Wilde
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Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most…
— Ivan Turgenev
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All that produces longing in the heart deprives the heart of freedom.
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it, for the more power he attributes to Destiny, the…
— Giacomo Casanova
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Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away also the desire…
— Giacomo Leopardi
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