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We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly patina which masks the living soul. And I would ask, who were you? Where was your home? Who is mourning for you now? ↗

— Ernst Toller

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I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

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Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn't steal from each other. ↗

— Barry McGuire

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We have women working in the foundries, stripped to the waist, if you please, because of the heat. ↗

— Rose Schneiderman

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We have seen... that, although England is by far the richest nation of Europe, we have already outstripped her in the race after wealth, and we have only begun the development of our vast resources. ↗

— Josiah Strong

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We were so fundamental that almost everything had been stripped away from the place of worship. Think of the role words can play, when all other enticements and sensual attractions are gone. ↗

— James D. Houston

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