#deprived

For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of others might be deprived of any realistic hope of gaining the opportunities now enjoyed by the more fortunate. ↗

— Herman Kahn

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We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions. ↗

— Lech Walesa

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It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts. ↗

— Boris Yeltsin

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I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild. ↗

— Tina Weymouth

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In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

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We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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A Christian people who have for two hundred years kept a race in bondage, deprived of the advantages of civilization and religion, owe them a debt of gratitude which it would seem ungenerous to withhold. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

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We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived. ↗

— June Jordan

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Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light. ↗

— John Ruskin

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