Prevent Quotes
1159 quotes by 860 authors
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The intention behind the protective use of force is to prevent injury, never to punish or to cause individuals to suffer, repent or change.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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In accordance with the prarabdha of each, the One whose function it is to ordain makes each to act. What will not happen will never…
— Ramana Maharshi
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The proper role of government is exactly what John Stuart Mill said in the middle of the nineteenth century in On Liberty. The proper role…
— Milton Friedman
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A right to jury trial is granted to criminal defendants in order to prevent oppression by the Government.
— Byron White
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You have to have as many defences in place as you possibly can. But even then of course - and it's important to stress this…
— William Hague
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The World Wide Web was precisely what we were trying to PREVENT— ever-breaking links, links going outward only, quotes you can't follow to their origins,…
— Ted Nelson
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Business leaders must not cling to old ways of doing business, or allow inertia or complacency to prevent them from making the decisions that they…
— Patricia Hewitt
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However, the eleventh-hour nature of these changes left us frustrated and angry — because they prevent us from telling the best stories we can. So,…
— Unknown Author
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I believe that the basic nature of human beings is gentle and compassionate. It is therefore in our own interest to encourage that nature, to…
— Dalai Lama
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That day the U.S. announced that the dollar would be devalued by 10 percent. By switching the yen to a floating exchange rate, the Japanese…
— Paul Volcker
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My efforts to prevent closing of the gold window-working through Connally, Volcker, and Shultz-do not seem to have succeeded. The gold window may have to…
— Arthur F. Burns
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Major international interventions are doomed unless the US is directly or indirectly involved. But if American politicians, officials and servicemen are to be put at…
— Margaret Thatcher
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Individualism has come in for an enormous amount of criticism over the years. It still does. It is widely assumed to be synonymous with selfishness...But…
— Margaret Thatcher
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It is perfectly obvious that the whole world is going to hell. The only possible chance that it might not is that we do not…
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
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The way the terrorist is trained to operate, especially the suicide terrorists, makes punishment and the threat of punishment far less valuable to those who…
— John Ashcroft
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The launch of the report coincides with the initiation by WHO of the global strategy for the prevention and control of osteoporosis, and I think…
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
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There is a very close connection between being a doctor and a politician. The doctor tries to prevent illness, then tries to treat it if…
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
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People are fed up with the career politicians who created this mess or failed to prevent it and neither was acceptable, and the only way…
— Ted Yoho
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We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and at the…
— Brooks Atkinson
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What sort of a brain-dead idiot does it take to actually believe that gun laws will prevent criminals from obtaining and carrying guns?
— Neal Boortz
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