“ I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it. ”
- Dobie Gillis- Copy
- 72
“ It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it. ”
- George Washington- Copy
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“ To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul the dweller in the body. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being. - Ken Burns. ”
- Ken Burns- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
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“ Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure. ”
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death. ”
- Sir Thomas Browne- Copy
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“ Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 366
“ The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Success, the mark no mortal wit, Or surest hand, can always hit: For whatsoe'er we perpetrate, We do but row, we're steer'd by Fate, Which in success oft disinherits, For spurious causes, noblest merits. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
- 3.1K
“ O superstition! Your inflexible rigours deprive humanity of the most sensitive hearts. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
- 988
“ Only a fool would try to deprive working men and working women of their right to join the union of their choice. ”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower- Copy
- 2.5K
“ But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
- 965
“ Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich. ”
- C. Northcote Parkinson- Copy
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“ The coquets of both sexes are self-lovers, and that is a love no other whatever can dispossess. ”
- John Gay- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours. ”
- Doug Larson- Copy
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“ Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
- 782
“ Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves — and the only way they could do this is by not voting. ”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society. ”
- Emma Goldman- Copy
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“ But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows. ”
- Placido Domingo- Copy
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“ So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas. ”
- Josiah Royce- Copy
- 359
“ Deprive the average human being of his life-lie, and you rob him of his happiness. ”
- Henry Jacobsen- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness. ”
- John Milton- Copy
- 442
“ Non violent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest himself of passivity with arraying himself in vindictive force. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Men now monopolize the upper levels depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence. ”
- Laurence J. Peter- Copy
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“ To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest. ”
- Wallace Stevens- Copy
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