#deprive

When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don't find any conflict among them. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#any #applicable #basic #basic principles #beings

I grew up in a poverty-stricken neighborhood, but I didn't really know I was a deprived, poverty-stricken child until the media made me aware of it. ↗

— Ving Rhames

#child #deprived #grew #i #know

If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business. ↗

— Lee Kuan Yew

#competitors #deprive #out #outsourcing #putting

No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you have a pre-existing medical condition, you, you can be deprived of coverage. No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you get seriously ill, you can get thrown off your insurance. Seniors don't want to go back to paying more for their prescription drugs. ↗

— David Axelrod

#condition #coverage #deprived #get #go

Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death. ↗

— Michel Aoun

#death #deprived #existence #freedom #kind

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

#become #cannot #carnal #deprived #joy

Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#becomes #below #deprived #experiences #fall

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return? ↗

— Epictetus

#any #case #child #dead #deprived

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. ↗

— Thomas Browne

#away #death #deprive #life #power

I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#condemned #condition #deprived #dispossessed #enjoy