{"quotes":[{"text":"Employment deprives you of innovations.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["blessing","deprivation","employment","finance","innovation","job","jobless","joblessness","life","money","purpose","time","work"],"id":15153,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"High altitude astronomy is a strange world of oxygen starvation, sleep deprivation and radiation sickness.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["altitude","astronomy","deprivation","oxygen","radiation","sickness","sleep","starvation","strange","world"],"id":24116,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while their fellow human beings remain paralyzed by real poverty. We drown in the thick sweetness of our sensual excess, and our shameless opulence, while our discontent souls suffocate in the arid wasteland of spiritual deprivation.","author":"Anthon St. Maarten","tags":["buying","consumer-culture","consumerism","consumption","deprivation","desert","despair","emptiness","excess","happiness","happiness-fulfillment-desire","material-possessions","material-world","materialism","materialism-versus-spiritualism","materialistic","materialistic-society","meaning-of-life","meaning-of-things","meaninglessness","modern-life","modern-society","money-happiness","money-not-happiness","nausea","nihilism","nihilistic","opulence","poverty","pursuit-of-happiness","self-inflicted-pain","soul-searching","soulless","spending","spiritual-development","spiritual-growth","spiritual-life","spiritual-wisdom","spirituality","suffocate","wastefulness","wasteland","wealth","wealth-and-virtues","wealth-of-soul"],"id":31931,"author_id":"Anthon+St.+Maarten"},{"text":"How agonized we are by how people die. How unconcerned we are by how they live.","author":"P. Sainath","tags":["death","deprivation","human-rights","life","poverty"],"id":40488,"author_id":"P.+Sainath"},{"text":"We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adversity","affliction","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","austerity","be-determined","be-persistent","be-tenacious","carry-on","challenge","challenges","continue","deprivation","destitution","determination","difficult","difficulties","dire-straits","distress","doggedness","dream","dreamer","dreamers","endurance","entrepreneur","entrepreneurs","firmness","follow-through","funny","give-up","go-on","go-the-distance","hammer-away","hang-in-there","hang-on","hardship","hardships","hilarious","hold-on","humor","humorous","humour","impecuniousness","indefatigability","inspiration","inspire","intransigence","joke","jokes","keep-at-it","keep-going","keep-on","leave-no-stone-unturned","mental-strength","mentally-strong","misery","misfortune","motivate","motivation","need","neediness","never-give-up","not-take-no-for-an-answer","obduracy","obstinacy","pain","patience","penury","perseverance","persevere","persist","persistence","pertinacity","plod-on","plug-away","poverty","press-ahead","press-on","privation","problem","problems","purposefulness","quotations","quotes","resoluteness","resolution","resolve","satire","soldier-on","stamina","stand-fast","stand-firm","startup","startups","staunchness","stay-the-course","staying-power","steadfastness","stick-it-out","stoic","stoicism","stoics","stop-at-nothing","strength","strength-of-purpose","strong","struggle-on","stubbornness","suffer","suffering","tenacity","tirelessness","travails","trial","trials","trials-and-tribulations","tribulation","tribulations","trouble","venture-capitalist","venture-capitalists","want","wretchedness"],"id":63742,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Employment deprives you of purpose.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["blessing","deprivation","employment","finance","job","jobless","joblessness","life","money","purpose","time","work"],"id":65028,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"We don't have to always win,Sometimes we need to be deprived by others to improve ourselves.","author":"Grace","tags":["deprivation","failure","lost","success"],"id":78955,"author_id":"Grace"},{"text":"Do not deprive the world the gift of your products.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["calling","conversion","convert","deprivation","gift","gifts","great","greatness","humanity","life","poverty","produce","product","productivity","purpose","time","value","waste","wealth","work","world"],"id":79958,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"This is one of the great human mysteries: why do works of art about bad things such as loss and deprivation make us feel good?","author":"Robert Pinsky","tags":["deprivation","heartbreak","loss"],"id":82147,"author_id":"Robert+Pinsky"},{"text":"Conservatism -- hard work -- saving one's money -- looking neat and gentlemanly. It was such an Eveless paradise, that.","author":"Theodore Dreiser","tags":["deprivation","eve","fun","hard-work","paradise","thrift","tidiness"],"id":87161,"author_id":"Theodore+Dreiser"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":25,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}