Prevent Quotes

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...I have had such a sickening of men in masses, and of causes, that I would not cross this room to reform parliament or prevent… — Patrick O'Brian
I believed the reason there was a God was to prevent such atrocities from happening to the same person twice. But nothing prepared me for… — Jodi Picoult
Anger is the right response to something that is so wrong. But don't let the anger and pain and loss you feel prevent you from… — William P. Young
No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills; likewise, no amount of psychotherapy alone can prevent my manias… — Kay Redfield Jamison
I believe the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but rather have us wasting time. This… — Donald Miller
In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality from… — Fernando Pessoa
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . .… — Thomas Jefferson
Join with those who sing, tell stories, talk pleasure in life, and have joy in their eyes, because joy is contagious, and can prevent others… — Paulo Coelho
We must nurture and love, if life is to have any real meaning. But First we must find a way to survive against the things… — Terry Brooks
The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them. — Francis Bacon
If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are merely committing suicide and trying to… — Jim Butcher
Enter my first neighbor - a woman who spoke in complete, coherent sentences, who ate with a knife and fork and who only cried at… — Erma Bombeck
As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend… — Charles Darwin
The positive emotions that arise in...unpromising circumstances demonstrate that social ties and meaningful work are deeply desired, readily improvised, and intensely rewarding. The very structure… — Rebecca Solnit
It doesnt always help us to love the world,but it does prevent us from hating the world. — Gregory David Roberts
Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Because civilization isn't a thing that you build and then there it is, you have it forever. It needs to be built constantly, recreated daily.… — Steven Galloway
Is he a dread genetic determinist, or a dread environmental determinist? He is neither, of course, for both these species of bogeyman are as mythical… — Daniel Dennett
The mist starts to form as we stand close to one another. It is a distant fog that rises from the horizon, and I find… — Nicholas Sparks
It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you… — Ernest Hemingway

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