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Deprive it of the oxygen it craves and it will slink away.
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Deprive children of choices and alternative perspectives, and you might lull them into compliance.
Todd Kashdan: 3 Ideas to Prevent Killing Creativity, Curiosity, and Critical Thinking in Kids Todd Kashdan 2011
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Rule number three: Deprive them of sleep during the day.
Stephanie Green: Go the F*** to Sleep Author's Bedtime Stories Stephanie Green 2011
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Deprive them, and they're not ready for school, which is proven to lead to increased high school dropout rates, incarceration and unemployment.
Mark Shriver: Waiting for Superbaby Mark Shriver 2010
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Deprive children of choices and alternative perspectives, and you might lull them into compliance.
Todd Kashdan: 3 Ideas to Prevent Killing Creativity, Curiosity, and Critical Thinking in Kids Todd Kashdan 2011
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Rule number three: Deprive them of sleep during the day.
Stephanie Green: Go the F*** to Sleep Author's Bedtime Stories Stephanie Green 2011
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Deprive them of their guns – it is seemingly all that most of their men understand.
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Deprive General Petraeus of the resources and manpower to employ those tactics, or worse, leave Iraq altogether, and our strategy will collapse.
McCain Campaign Gets All Ironic in Obama’s Grill - Swampland - TIME.com 2008
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Deprive General Petraeus of the resources and manpower to employ those tactics, or worse, leave Iraq altogether, and our strategy will collapse.
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Deprive them of football and food and teach them some kind of history lesson?
Strangers at the Feast Jennifer Vanderbes 2010
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