To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before. — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abideth in the hard bone. — Hafez Copy Share Image
Can we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avert planetary collapse? — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
Unless we establish some form of world government, it will not be possible for us to avert a World War III in… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Dead, hung up indoors, the kingfisher will not indicate a favoring wind, or avert the thunderbolt. — Charles Olson Copy Share Image
By preventing new conflicts, we avert the causes of radicalization and the risk of terrorist attacks in Europe, including in Germany. — Wolfgang Schauble Copy Share Image
Every once in a while I feel despair over the fate of the planet. If you've been following climate science, you know… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
I have a real problem when people say, "Well I walked by and you should have seen what was on the computer… — Judith Krug Copy Share Image
There was no simple riddance to the power of a dangerous political idea; no assassination possible to avert a disruptive change in… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
The second class of evils comprises such evils as people cause to each other, when, e.g. , some of them use their… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
The window of opportunity to avert famine is rapidly closing and could already have closed. The real issue facing us is not… — Catherine Bertini Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that the time to act is now. It is now that timely action can avert disaster. It is… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Thus far the chief purpose of our military establishment has been to win wars. From now on its chief purpose must be… — Bernard Brodie Copy Share Image
Our courage is greater to dare a visible than an imagined danger. A visible danger rouses our energies to meet or avert… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
We live in a very special time right now. At no other time in history has there been such mass disillusionment in… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
We called the new [fourth] quark the "charmed quark" because we were pleased, and fascinated by the symmetry it brought to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The observance of Lent is the very badge of Christian warfare. By it we prove ourselves not to be enemies of Christ.… — Pope Benedict XIV Copy Share Image
So far as Chairman Mao's own hopes were concerned, he initiated the "Cultural Revolution" in order to avert the restoration of capitalism,… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
All of us in this country give lip service to the ideals set forth in the Bill of Rights and emphasized by… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
What makes a Man love Death, Fanny? Is it because he hopes to avert his own by watchin' the Deaths of others?… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing! I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form… — George Washington Copy Share Image
This is the message of your life and my life - it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
I had recently had the impression they were changing - not so much by becoming less pro-Pakistan as by becoming less anti-India.… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Since love and hate can be fierce partners in crime, it is highly recommended to trace any early indicia of the fault… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
He who loathes war, and will do everything in his power to avert it, but who will, in the last extremity, encounter… — John Stevens Cabot Abbott Copy Share Image
Sex cannot be understood because nature cannot be understood. Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened… — Camille Copy Share Image
I abhor unjust war. I abhor injustice and bullying by the strong at the expense of the weak, whether among nations or… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Lincoln's appeal to 'the better angels of our nature' failed to avert a fratricidal war. But the compassionate wisdom of Lincoln's first… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
To avert the danger [posed by theory] to life, Nietzsche could choose one of two ways: he could insist on the strictly… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
I tried all in my power to avert this war. I saw it coming, for twelve years I worked night and day… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
Harm can come about without will or action. But will and action can avert harm. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
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