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Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth.

~Alan Ladd

Topics: Being Deprivation Good Host Loneliness Youth

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Tackling deprivation around the world is a moral imperative and firmly in Britain's national interest.

~Andrew Mitchell

Topics: Around Britain Deprivation Firmly Imperative Interest Moral National National Interest Tackling World

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The school in the Yorkshire mining village in which my father grew up in the 1920s and 1930s allowed only a few children to go to high school, and my father was not one of them. He spent much of his time as a young man repairing this deprivation, mostly at night school.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: Allowed Children Deprivation Father Few Go Grew He High High School His Man Mining Mostly Much Night Only School Spent Them Time Up Village Which Yorkshire Young Young Man 1920S 1930S

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The absence of state capacity - that is, of the services and protections that people in rich countries take for granted - is one of the major causes of poverty and deprivation around the world.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: Absence Around Capacity Causes Countries Deprivation Granted Major People Poverty Rich Services State Take Take For Granted World

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Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.

~B. F. Skinner

Topics: Behavior Committed Culture Deprivation Feeding Great Hungry Longer Money New Nor Now Offers Once Our People Reasons Reinforced Used Were Whether Work

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The devadasis have a multilayered story, a story in which poverty, deprivation and injustice against women is central - but what has happened to them is absolutely an outcome of imperialism and the impact of British rule in India.

~Beeban Kidron

Topics: Absolutely Against British Central Deprivation Happened Impact Imperialism India Injustice Outcome Poverty Rule Story Them Which Women

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Gordon Ramsay grew up in a tourist town, Stratford-Upon-Avon, but in a part tourists don't visit - a council estate: a concrete bunker subsidized by the local government, synonymous with deprivation and blight.

~Bill Buford

Topics: Bunker Concrete Council Deprivation Estate Gordon Government Grew Local Local Government Part Synonymous Tourist Tourists Town Up Visit

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When you love food as much as I do, staying healthy is not easy. I mean, moderation, not deprivation. That's my new way of living. I always want more and that's just my life.

~Carnie Wilson

Topics: Always Deprivation Easy Food Healthy Just Life Living Love Mean Moderation More Much My Life New New Way Staying Want Way You

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I mean, moderation, not deprivation. That's my new way of living.

~Carnie Wilson

Topics: Deprivation Living Mean Moderation New New Way Way

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If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.

~Carrie P. Meek

Topics: Children Crime Deprivation Desperation Leave Life Our Really Save Them Tough Try Were

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