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I like food. I like eating. And I don`t want to deprive myself of good food.

- Sarah Michelle Gellar

The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of a future.

- Thom Yorke

But I won`t deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows.

- Plácido Domingo

Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

- Ken Burns

To stop terrorists before the strike, we must do three things: deny them entry into the country, curtail their freedom of action inside the country, and deprive them of material and moral support from within the country.

- Richard Perle

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.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them.

- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

- Abdur Rahman

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental or spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.

- Adam Clymer

Once the attacks occur, as we learned on Sept. 11, it is too late. It makes little sense to deprive ourselves of an important, and legal, means to detect and prevent terrorist attacks while we are still in the middle of a fight to the death with al Qaeda.

- Allan Kline

So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas.

- Allayne Barrilleaux

The house of Austria has publicly used every effort to deprive the country of its legitimate Independence and Constitution, designing to reduce it to a level with the other provinces long since deprived of all freedom, and to unite all in a common sink of slavery.

- Allison Baker

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

- Allison Johnson

He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil.

- Andrew Nelson

I don`t have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

- Angela O'Byrne

If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution

- Abraham Lincoln

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around (the banks) will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

- Thomas Jefferson