Depriving Quotes

• When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition.

  Dexter Gordon

  Music, Tunes, Jazz

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• Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Spiritual, Men, Addiction

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• It is said slavery is all we are fighting for, and if we give it up we give up all. Even if this were true, which we deny, slavery is not all our enemies are fighting for. It is merely the pretense to establish sectional superiority and a more centralized form of government, and to deprive us of our rights and liberties.

  Patrick Cleburne

  Giving Up, War, Military

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• My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.

  Edward Brooke

  Race, Parent, Mind

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• What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.

  Neil Postman

  Truth, Fear, Book

  "Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business". Book by Neil Postman, 1985.

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• Any nation or government that deprives an individual of freedom is in that moment committing an act of moral and spiritual murder. Any individual who is not concerned about his freedom commits an act of moral and spiritual suicide.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Suicide, Spiritual, Government

  Address at the Fiftieth Annual NAACP Convention, July 17, 1959.

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• The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy.

  Frank Herbert

  Men, Differences, Violence

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.148, Penguin

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• ...self-important western journalists who'd given up their sacred trust to become cheerleaders for trendy causes, the way communist journalists had once been cheerleaders for the government...They were depriving the free world of its most valuable weapon in condemning and exposing the worst human scourge since Nazism: the targeting and murder of civilians to achieve political and religious ends.

  Naomi Ragen

  Religious, Government, Self

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• Critics of the global warming agenda are motivated... by a love of freedom and civil liberties. They want a discussion based on logic and facts that will address any problems without depriving us of liberty and personal choice. They do not want to sacrifice our way of life based on fears of an unproven theory. After all, the loss of liberty is a greater cause of alarm than global warming.

  Deneen Borelli

  Loss, Sacrifice, Choices

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• Today in America, unions have a secure place in our industrial life. Only a handful of reactionaries harbor the ugly thought of breaking unions and depriving working men and women of the right to join the union of their choice. I have no use for those - regardless of their political party - who hold some vain and foolish dream of spinning the clock back to days when organized labor was huddled, almost as a hapless mass. Only a fool would try to deprive working men and women of the right to join the union of their choice.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Dream, Party, Men

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• We are undermining a generation's happiness by depriving them of national identity, religious identity, and gender identity

  Dennis Prager

  Religious, Identity, Generations

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• I feel sexy when I'm taking care of myself and not depriving myself.

  Julianne Hough

  Sexy, Care, Feels

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• I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet.

  Joely Fisher

  Believe, Don't Believe, Diets

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Netherlands have great strikers... but they are only playing one. They are depriving themselves of their best qualities and shooting themselves in the foot.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Feet, Quality, Netherlands

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• Empress of the Universe would be way too much work. I'd have to wear fancy clothes, probably including lady shoes with pointed toes, and could no longer slouch into the study in PJs and slippers. Someone would (avert!) straighten my desk. Someone would reorganize my yarn stash...in fact, they'd assign someone else to knit my socks, thus depriving me of an excuse to rest my brain while pretending to accomplish something useful.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Yarn, Clothes, Pjs

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• Could it be that by protecting our kids from unhappiness as children, we’re depriving them of happiness as adults?

  Lori Gottlieb

  Children, Kids, Adults

  "How to Land Your Kid in Therapy" by Lori Gottlieb, www.theatlantic.com. July 2011.

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• The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.

  Richard Stallman

  Creativity, Desire, Doe

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.31, Lulu.com

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• There are some disabling myths about what art is, how to do it, what is good art, and what art is for, that have gagged generations, depriving them of significant and natural means of expression. This is a terrible loss and an unnecessary one.

  Peter London

  Wise, Art, Mean

  Peter London (1989). “No More Secondhand Art”, p.11, Shambhala Publications

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• Watch yourself with all diligence, lest the enemy steals near and robs you, depriving you of this great treasure, which is inner peace and stillness of soul. The enemy strives to destroy the peace of the soul, because he knows that when the soul is in turmoil it is more easily led to evil. But you must guard your peace.

  Lorenzo Scupoli

  Christian, Evil, Inner Peace

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• For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so nothing is taught but what is expedient to know. Therefore we must guard against depriving believers of anything disclosed about predestination in Scripture, lest we seem either wickedly to defraud them of the blessing of their God or to accuse and scoff at the Holy Spirit for having published what it is in any way profitable to suppress.

  John Calvin

  School, Blessing, Way

  John Calvin “Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion”, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Through the practice of yoga, you come to feel confident and develop a feeling of wholeness and completeness; you are not likely to feel deprived or 'less than.' People steal because they feel deprived. They try to make up for their deficits by depriving others.

  Sharon Gannon

  Yoga, Practice, People

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• It's funny: By putting up walls, you think you're protecting yourself, but you get to live less. You're depriving yourself of so much if you're trying to be too aware of what you're putting out there. If you feel someone breaking those walls down, let them. Those are the people that you need to find in life, rather than people that you're just comfortable with.

  Kristen Stewart

  Wall, Thinking, People

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• When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition. If you don't understand what it's about, you're depriving yourself of being really able to communicate this poem.

  Dexter Gordon

  Being Real, Tunes, Able

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• The proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which, in common with his fellow citizens, he has a natural right.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Office, Atheism

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• Mixed dinner parties of ladies and gentlemenare very rare, which is a great defect in the society; not only as depriving themof the most social and hospitable manner of meeting, but as leading to frequent dinner parties of gentlemen without ladies, which certainly does not conduce to refinement.

  Frances Trollope

  Party, Gentleman, Doe

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