#devoid

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#breadth #devoid #down #find #individual

Modern Armenia survived only because it was the single province controlled, and protected, by the Russian Empire. The rest of the territory within its historical borders is almost wholly devoid of ethnic Armenians. ↗

— John Shimkus

#armenia #armenians #because #borders #controlled

Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#devoid #different #differently #economic policy #fundamental

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#devoid #make #mornings #terrifying #up

A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant. ↗

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

#beauty #character #devoid #fragrant #gratitude

The exercises of our meeting are to be simple and devoid of all ceremonial and formalism. ↗

— Felix Adler

#devoid #exercises #meeting #our #simple

The Western stereotype of Africa and its black citizens as devoid of reason and, therefore, subhuman was often shared by white master and black ex-slave alike. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#alike #black #citizens #devoid #master

A journalist is supposed to present an unbiased portrait of an event, a view devoid of intimate emotions. This is impossible, of course. The framing of an image, by its very composition, represents a choice. The photographer chooses what to show and what to exclude. ↗

— Alexandra Kerry

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A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence. ↗

— Kemal Ataturk

#artists #cannot #devoid #existence #full

As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form. ↗

— Avicenna

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