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Lies were lethal, however honourable the intentions of the liar. They deprived people of the opportunity to know the basic facts of their own lives.

Sophie Hannah

Liars, Lying, Opportunity

Sophie Hannah (2009). “Little Face: Culver Valley Crime”, p.105, Hachette UK

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If a man loses a dear friend, he looks around and sees many friends come to console and comfort him. If a man loses his wealth, after a little thought he will realize that the delight that came from wealth will be restored by finding more. Thus he forgets his loss and is consoled. But if a man's heart is deprived of peace, where will he find it again, how will he replace it?

Khalil Gibran

Heart, Loss, Men

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Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.

Hannah Arendt

Action, Isolation, Capacity

Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.188, University of Chicago Press

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If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly in a large part of mankind; indeed, this seems actually to be a psychological and sociological law: the power of some needs the folly of others. It is not that certain human capacities, intellectual capacities for instance, become stunted of destroyed, but rather that the upsurge of power makes such an overwhelming impression that men are deprived of their independent judgment, and...give up trying to assess the new state of affairs for themselves.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Religious, Giving Up, Independent

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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...the reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single performance of a Beethoven symphony, never hears it again.

Anne Fadiman

Book, Symphony, Shelves

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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity. They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.

W. Somerset Maugham

Beautiful, Dog, Names

W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.264, The Floating Press

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No one can lose either the past or the future - how could anyone be deprived of what he does not possess? ... It is only the present moment of which either stands to be deprived: and if this is all he has, he cannot lose what he does not have.

Marcus Aurelius

Past, Doe, Moments

Marcus Aurelius (2006). “Meditations”, p.53, Penguin UK

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To protest about bullfighting in Spain, the eating of dogs in South Korea, or the slaughter of baby seals in Canada, while continuing to eat eggs from hens who have spent their lives crammed into cages, or veal from calves who have been deprived of their mothers, their proper diet, and the freedom to lie down with their legs extended, is like denouncing apertheid in South Africa while asking your neighbors not to sell their houses to blacks.

Peter Singer

Mother, Dog, Baby

"Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals". Book by Peter Singer, 1975.

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To be a woman condemned to a wretched and disgraceful punishment is no impediment to beauty, but it is an insurmountable obstacle to power. Like all persons of real genius, her ladyship well knew what accorded with her nature and her means. Poverty disgusted her -subjection deprived her of two-thirds of her greatness. Her ladyship was only a queen amongst queens: the enjoyment of satisfied pride was essential to her sway. To command beings of an inferior nature, was, to her, rather a humiliation than a pleasure.

Alexandre Dumas

Queens, Real, Mean

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An unauthentic word, one which is unable to transform reality, results when dichotomy is imposed upon its constitutive elements. When a word is deprived of its dimension of action, reflection automatically suffers as well; and the word is changed into idle chatter, into verbalism, into an alienated and alienating “blah.” It becomes an empty word, one which cannot denounce the world, for denunciation is impossible without a commitment to transform, and there is no transformation without action.

Paulo Freire

Commitment, Reality, Reflection

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Only the subject's individual consciousness can testify for the unwitnessed acts, and there is no act more deprived of external testimony than the act of knowing.

Olavo de Carvalho

Knowing, Consciousness, Individual

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Because men have a history, it is difficult for them to imagine what it is like to grow up without one, or the sense of personal expansion that comes from discovering that we women have a worthy heritage. Along with pride often comes rage – rage that one has been deprived of such a significant knowledge.

Judy Chicago

Growing Up, Pride, Men

Judy Chicago (2007). “The Dinner Party: From Creation to Preservation”, Merrell Pub Limited

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Because we are denied knowledge of our history, we are deprived of standing upon each other's shoulders and building upon each other's hard earned accomplishments. Instead we are condemned to repeat what others have done before us and thus we continually reinvent the wheel. The goal of The Dinner Party is to break this cycle.

Judy Chicago

Party, Accomplishment, Goal

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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Once people who have been deprived of basic freedom taste a little of it, they want all of it.

Ronald Reagan

Freedom, People, Liberty

Ronald Reagan (1998). “A Shining City: The Legacy of Ronald Reagan”

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Unskilled and inexperienced workers are the ones most often deprived of employment opportunities by increases in the minimum wage.

Ron Paul

Opportunity, Employment, Minimum Wage

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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

Seneca the Younger

Happiness, Failure, Adversity

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No society has fulfilled its democratic promise if people go hungry... If some go without food they have surely been deprived of all power. The existence of hunger belies the existence of democracy.

Frances Moore Lappé

People, Promise, Democracy

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Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.

Francis Quarles

Worry, Literature, May

Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.87

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Our greatest fear is that we will lose the love in our life... that we will be abandoned, left alone, bereaved, misunderstood, deprived, hated and rejected....but we can never be OUT OF LOVE. We are love and if our minds separate ourselves from who we really are it is a painful delusion. Ego personalities, including our own, might separate ourselves from love but love never dies because it is what we are made of.

Susan Mitchell

Yoga, Greatest Fear, Personality

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When you become a mom you just learn how to function sleep deprived and you do get used to it. I came back to work when Finley was three months old and the first few months were rough. Then somehow you learn to exist on no sleep and now when he does upon occasion sleep through the night, which is like a full six hours, you're pretty sure he's suffocating. So you don't sleep anyway.

Holly Marie Combs

Mom, Sleep, Night

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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I hope I shall never see the day
when the Force of Right
is deprived of the Right of Force.

Winston Churchill

Force

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Traveling provides occasions for shaking oneself up but not, as people believe, freedom. Indeed it involves a kind of reduction: deprived of one’s usual setting, the customary routine stripped away like so much wrapping paper, the traveller finds himself reduced to more modest proportions - but also more open to curiosity, to intuition, to love at first sight.

Nicolas Bouvier

Believe, Sight, People

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If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.

Gloria Swanson

Failure, Years, Ifs

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I believe that I was lucky to have suffered.
Some people don't realize that in suffering there is great potential, because if you are deprived for any reason.
Politically, financially, socially or otherwise and if you set your mind in the right direction, you will find that the only way to survive is for you to excel, by being better so you can be treated better.

Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

Inspirational, Pain, Business

"The Grass is Greener ... On Both Sides". Jordan Business magazine, December 2006.

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We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness. The supreme happiness in life is the assurance of being loved; of being loved for oneself, even in spite of oneself; and this assurance the blind man possesses. In his affliction, to be served is to be caressed. Does he lack anything? no. Possessing love he is not deprived of light. A love, moreover, that is wholly pure. There can be no blindness where there is this certainty.

Victor Hugo

Life, Men, Light

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