Prevent Quotes
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How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible. It must be all lies and of no account when the culture of a thousand years could not prevent this stream of blood being poured out, these torture-chambers in their hundreds of thousands. A hospital alone shows what war is.
Erich Maria Remarque
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People accept their limitations so as to prevent themselves from wanting anything they might get.
Celia Green
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What has not yet emerged is easy to prevent.
Lao Tzu
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Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended.... Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored.
Soren Kierkegaard
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If we could cut carbon dioxide emissions by 80 percent over the next 20 years we could perhaps prevent this. If we continue burning fossil fuels as we are today in the very near future (the ice shelf) will slip in (the ocean).
Will Steger
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You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.
George Sand
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One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
Norman R. Augustine
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Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.
Anne O'Hare McCormick
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Defense is on the fly, it's reactive; you have to react to the offense. I have to prevent someone from doing something when they want to do it.
Charles Tillman
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Nothing can prevent your picture from coming into concrete form except the power which gave it birth-yourself.
Genevieve Behrend
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The National Socialist Party will prevent in the future, by force if necessary, all meetings and lectures which are likely to exercise a depressing influence on the German state.
Adolf Hitler
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First law: The pesticide paradox. Every method you use to prevent or find bugs leaves a residue of subtler bugs against which those methods are ineffective.
Boris Beizer
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If we act together on the drug problem, with a comprehensive vision devoid of ideological or political biases, we will be able to prevent much harm and violence!
Juan Manuel Santos
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Just definitions either prevent or put an end to disputes.
Nathanael Emmons
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Live every day as if you've come back in time from a dystopian future to try and prevent everything from breaking.
Charlie Jane Anders
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A thriller needs to hold the interest of the reader from the very beginning. It needs to engage with them, hold them in rapt attention, and prevent them from putting down the book.
Ravi Subramanian
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There is a First Amendment right to speak in a encrypted way.... The right to speak P.G.P. is like the right to speak Navajo. The Government has no particular right to prevent you from speaking in a technical manner even if it is inconvenient for them to understand.
Eben Moglen
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For women who do not love us, as for the "disappeared", knowing that we no longer have any hope does not prevent us form continuing to wait. We live on our guard, on watch; women whose son has gone asea on a dangerous exploration imagine at any minute, although it has long been certain that he has perished, that he will enter, miraculously saved, and healthy.
Marcel Proust
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I would like to manage to prevent people from ever seeing how a picture of mine has been done. What can it possibly matter? What I want is that the only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.
Pablo Picasso
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I think we're going to have to take a hard look about what more we can do to prevent this kind of lone wolf attack.
Hillary Clinton
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Management’s job is not to prevent risk but to build the ability to recover.
Edwin Catmull
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When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order, and morals.
George Bernard Shaw
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Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands, but at leastin our thoughts where we may dispose of them at our whim, which gives us the illusion of power over them.
Marcel Proust
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We must stand our ground to ensure that our laws reduce violence and take a hard look at laws that contribute to more violence than they prevent.
Eric Holder