Prevent Quotes
1159 quotes by 860 authors
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Everyone detected with AIDS should be tattooed in the upper forearm, to protect common needle users, and on the buttock, to prevent the victimization of…
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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We are no more responsible for the evil thoughts that pass through our minds than a scarecrow for the birds which fly over the seedplot…
— John Churton Collins
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A French traveler with a sore throat is a wonderful thing to behold, but it takes more than tonsillitis to prevent a Frenchman from boasting.
— Paul Theroux
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The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden.
— Richard Neal
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Society as a whole is better off when information is available to the public. Whether you are talking about how to prevent disease, or about…
— Dave Obey
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I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.
— Barbara Lee
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The importance of heart health became very real for me when my father died of heart disease seven years ago. Having experienced the loss first…
— Monica Potter
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In America, after 9/11, and after the death of bin Laden, and after two wars, one of them fought, a lot of people think, on…
— Gideon Raff
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I strongly support the call to greatly expand our human intelligence capability to penetrate al Qaeda and gather critical intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks on…
— Jim Ramstad
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Many Sunnis, who are still stuck in the Saddam era mindset and believe Iraq belongs to them, are trying to prevent a new country from…
— Brent Scowcroft
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The presidential candidates are offering prescriptions for everything from Iraq to healthcare, but listen closely. Their fixes are situational and incremental. Meanwhile, the underlying structural…
— Larry Sabato
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Removing substantial fuel loads from our forests helps prevent catastrophic fire and better protects species, watersheds and neighboring communities that call them home.
— Greg Walden
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Nonetheless, Article 5 makes clear that if an Iraqi civilian who is not a member of the armed forces, has engaged in attacks on Coalition…
— John Yoo
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Once the attacks occur, as we learned on Sept. 11, it is too late. It makes little sense to deprive ourselves of an important, and…
— John Yoo
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Not only do these abominable weapons lie buried in silence and in their millions waiting to kill or maim innocent women and children; but the…
— Kofi Annan
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I was told to hand over my disposable lighter, to prevent, I suppose, any threat of "Do what I say or I'll light this Marlboro…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Among all the religious persecutions with which almost every page of modern history is stained, no victim ever suffered but for violation of what Government…
— Richard Mentor Johnson
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Every homeless puppy and kitten was born to parents who weren't spayed or neutered. I'm proud to support PETA's work to prevent animal homelessness.
— Kevin Nealon
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Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. The rude shocks and uncomfortably constraining influences of…
— Marquis de Custine
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A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful…
— William Booth
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