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• We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief.... In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Communication, Humanity, Understanding

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking”, p.25, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• I often accompanied my father. I really liked riding with him on his bicycle on Saturdays. He was very fond of fishing. I don’t think I liked fishing. I mean, you had to sit quietly and still, but I enjoyed the ride. And it was fun, it was fun. I mean, as I say, you didn’t go around lugging a deep sense of resentment. We knew, yes, we were deprived. It wasn’t the same thing for white kids, but it was as full a life as you could make it. I mean, we made toys for ourselves with wires, making cars, and you really were exploding with joy!

  Desmond Tutu

  Fun, Father, Mean

  "Forging Equality in South Africa". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 12, 2004.

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• Lynching is the method of vulgar men! He who is deprived of compassion is deprived of everything!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Compassion, Men, Lynching

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• Any system that is deprived of its natural volatility, with government up (unintelligible) volatile, any system becomes very fragile.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Government, Natural, Volatility

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Humans became easy prey when they moved from the forest to the savanna, which deprived them of the option of climbing trees to flee predators. This shift made it necessary for the men to actively protect the women and their babies. Only as a result of this protection were women able to give birth in shorter intervals, perhaps once every two or three years. This meant that they could produce offspring about twice as frequently as apes. I would be willing to bet that this rapid reproduction is one of the reasons why we dominate the world today, and not the apes.

  Frans de Waal

  Baby, Men, Climbing

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• I had a deprived childhood, you see. I had lots of other kids to play with and my parents bought me outdoor toys and refused to ill-treat me, so it never occurred to me to seek solitary consolation with a good book.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Kids, Play

  Terry Pratchett (2014). “A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction”, p.68, Random House

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• When I was exposed to the history and the cultural background of why women whose husbands die, why they have to become ascetic or live a life that is completely deprived of emotional or social or cultural sustenance, I was really shocked.

  Deepa Mehta

  Husband, Emotional, Social

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Man is about to be deprived of a great pole - work routine. The nightmare of capitalist society is unemployment; the nightmare of cybernetic society will be employment.

  John Fowles

  Men, Routine, Nightmare

  John Fowles (1970). “The Aristos”, Signet Book

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• Yes, the South-becoming always poorer-and the North-becoming always richer ...Richer, too in the resources of weapons with which the superpowers and blocs can mutually threaten each other. In the light of Christ's words (Mt. 25), this poor South will judge the rich North. And the poor people and poor nations-poor in different ways, not only lacking food, but also deprived of freedom and other human right-will judge those people who take these goods away from them, amassing to themselves the imperialist monopoly and political supremacy at the expense of others.

  Pope John Paul II

  Light, Judging, People

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• Some good qualities are like the senses: Those who are entirely deprived of them can have no notion of them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Quality, Goodness, Notion

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• You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action. A plenary meeting of the Soviet must be called to decide on mass searches in Petrograd and the goods stations. To carry out
  these searches, each factory and company must form contingents, not on a voluntary basis: it must be the duty of everyone to take part in these searches under the threat of being deprived of
  his bread card. We can't expect to get anywhere unless we resort to terrorism: speculators must be shot on the spot. Moreover, bandits must be dealt with just as resolutely: they must be
  shot on the spot.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Cards, Bread, Action

  "Meeting of the Presidium of the Petrograd Soviet With Delegates From the Food Supply Organisations (January 27, 1918)". Krasnaya Letopis No. 1, 1924. Collected Works, Volume 26, p. 501, www.marx2mao.com.

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• The wealthy class often looks down on the poor as "those people." And deprived people view the rich as cold and heartless. The way to break down the barrier between the rich and poor is to asociate with each other and to help one another. Make a connection. If you can break down the barrier, it may pave the way to recovery for some person, a family, maybe an entire community.

  George Foreman

  Recovery, Class, Views

  George Foreman, Ken Abraham (2007). “God In My Corner: A Spiritual Memoir”, p.180, Thomas Nelson

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• Here's the problem, when you're stargazing on a mountain top you are partially oxygen-deprived and you're in command of million dollars worth of hardware. So as much as I would like to sip wine under the stars, it's contraindicated in the instructions on operating telescopes.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Wine, Oxygen

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• I am the son and grandson of Navy admirals, and I was born into America's service. It wasn't until I was deprived of her company that I fell in love with America.

  John McCain

  Son, America, Navy

  John McCain's Announcement Speech in New Hampshire, www.mccain.senate.gov. September 27, 1999.

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• Any man of energy and initiative can get what he wants out of life. But when initiative is crippled by legislation or by a tax system which denies him the right to receive a reasonable share of his earnings, then he will no longer exert himself and the country will be deprived of the energy on which its continued greatness depends.

  Andrew Mellon

  Country, Greatness, Men

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• It is evident that youth is the first victim of the trend toward bureaucratization. The young men are deprived of any opportunity to shape their own fate.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Fate, Opportunity, Men

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Bureaucracy: The Economist”, p.90, VM eBooks

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• A man filled with meat turns his back on the dry bones of political doctrine. Fanatical devotion to the ruling party comes more readily from the materially deprived At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Party, Men, Dry Bones

  1896 A Writer's Notebook (published1949).

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• My theory has always been that everyone in show business is there because they were deprived of some attention as a child.

  Ray Romano

  Children, Attention, Theory

  Ray Romano (1999). “Everything and a Kite”

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• Whenever any great song or album gets lost in the ether, someone is deprived of the joy of hearing it, and the great effort of those who created and recorded the work is damaged.

  Henry Rollins

  Song, Effort, Joy

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• The school is a political prize of the highest importance. It cannot be deprived of its political character as long as it remains a public and compulsory institution.

  Ludwig von Mises

  School, Character, Long

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism”

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• I am asserting that those who love the wilderness should not be wholly deprived of it, that while the reduction of the wilderness has been a good thing, its extermination would be a very bad one, and that the conservation of wilderness is the most urgent and difficult of all the tasks that confront us, because there are no economic laws to help and many to hinder its accomplishment.

  Aldo Leopold

  Law, Accomplishment, Tasks

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• To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Art, Philosophy, Hell

  Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft (1969). “Retrospectives and Conclusions”

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• Let us look at wealth and poverty. The affluent society and the deprived society inter-are. The wealth of one society is made of the poverty of the other. "This is like this, because that is like that." Wealth is made of non-wealth elements, and poverty is made by non-poverty elements. [...] so we must be careful not to imprison ourselves in concepts. The truth is that everything contains everything else. We cannot just be, we can only inter-be. We are responsible fo everything that happens around us.

  Nhat Hanh

  Looks, Elements, Poverty

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• The envious are more likely to be mollified by seeing others deprived of some advantage than by gaining it for themselves. It is not what they lack that chiefly troubles them, but what others have.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Trouble, Envious, Advantage

  Henry Hazlitt, Hans F. Sennholz (1993). “The Wisdom of Henry Hazlitt”, Foundation for Economic Education

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• Of all things that can happen to us, triumph is the most difficult to endure when we are alone. Deprived of witnesses, it shrinks at once.

  Gabrielle Roy

  Triumph, Endure, Difficult

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