Prevent Quotes
1159 quotes by 860 authors
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Once and for all, people must understand that addiction is a disease. It’s critical if we’re going to effectively prevent and treat addiction. Accepting that…
— David Sheff
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The writer's function is to prevent myths turning into allegories.
— Michel Tournier
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The only legitimate use for a glove is to cover an injury... A desire to prevent callus formation (possibly so as to not snag one's…
— Mark Rippetoe
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At the enterprise level, businesses have the talent and budget to create and enforce policies that prevent staffers from installing things themselves.
— Jeff Duntemann
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Unchecked pride evolves into swagger, a hypnotizing mask of insecurity that can and does compromise our ability to make progress and attain power. Pride stands…
— Jason Whitlock
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The greatest threat of childhood diseases lies in the dangerous and ineffectual efforts made to prevent them through mass immunisation.....There is no convincing scientific evidence…
— Robert S. Mendelsohn
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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…
— Boris Beizer
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If a government resorts to inflation, that is, creates money in order to cover its budget deficits or expands credit in order to stimulate business,…
— Henry Hazlitt
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Affection is important because it counters anger, hatred and suspicion that can prevent our minds from functioning clearly.
— Dalai Lama
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I'd rather learn how to prevent failure than how to gain success, because for what is success other than a state of mind?
— Og Mandino
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I cannot prevent anyone from getting angry, or mad, or frustrated. I can only hope that they'll turn that anger and frustration and madness into…
— Harvey Milk
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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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We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide. Most of all we love and want to be loved. We…
— James Kavanaugh
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Was I being groomed for some special mission? What possible purpose could an existence like mine serve? When I wasn’t drinking in crappy bars, I…
— Heather King
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But to paraphrase Henry Drummond in Inherit the Wind, ignorance and mediocrity are forever busy, and the forces of mediocrity aren't content with being mediocre;…
— Rafe Esquith
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Truth has to appear only once, in one single mind, for it to be impossible for anything ever to prevent it from spreading universally and…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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The argument that making contraceptives available to young people would prevent teen pregnancies is ridiculous. That's like offering a cookbook as a cure to people…
— Jerry Falwell
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Love someone too much to help them prevent making a mistake.
— Kathie Lee Gifford
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Six months have passed since that horrible, horrible event of terrorism in the twin towers and Washington. I hope people all over the world recognize…
— Hamid Karzai
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The capitalist class shoots down mothers and children. It stops at nothing, no matter how monstrous, to prevent the organization of the workers.
— Ella Reeve Bloor
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