#privation

Why has pachinko swept Japan? It can hardly be the excitement of gambling, since the risks and rewards are so small. During the hours spent in front of a pachinko machine, there is an almost total lack of stimulation other than the occasional rush of ball bearings. There is no thought, no movement; you have no control over the flow of balls, apart from holding a little lever which shoots them up to the top of the machine; you sit there enveloped in a cloud of heavy cigarette smoke, semi-dazed by the racket of millions of ball bearings falling through machines around you. Pachinko verges on sensory deprivation. It is the ultimate mental numbing, the final victory of the educational system." - Lost Japan, Eng. vers., 1996 ↗

— Alex Kerr

#education #educational-system #japan #pachinko #sensory-deprivation

I'm always without sleep. I've got two kids. I understand sleep deprivation on a profound level. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#deprivation #got #i #kids #level

I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse. ↗

— Tatum O'Neal

#abuse #deprivation #i #neglect #overcome

I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don't want people to think that 'Let's Move' is about complete, utter deprivation. It's about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families. ↗

— Michelle Obama

#because #changes #complete #deprivation #families

What government has been doing, we've got major programmes now, of billions of pounds, which are directed by central government into these areas of deprivation. ↗

— John Prescott

#been #billions #central #central government #deprivation

We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving peace. ↗

— Thomas R. Kelly

#economic #god #loving #mistaken #nature

I had an out-of-body experience so strange that it felt normal. You see, my soul, or essence, had left my body and went and inhabited the body of my clone. So I wasn’t in my body, and yet I was. Or maybe none of that happened, and I was just in a delirious, sleep-deprived state.
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— Jarod Kintz

#delirious #normal #sleep-deprivation #soul #experience

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#character #conspicuously #poor #privation #turn

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth. ↗

— Philip Larkin

#me #were #wordsworth