Prevent Quotes

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Prayer can solve more problems, alleviate more suffering, prevent more transgression, and bring about greater peace and contentment in the human soul than can be… — Thomas S. Monson
As a woman you are better off in life earning your own money. You couldn't prevent your husband from leaving you or taking another wife,… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
For the best part of 40 years she had genuinely believed that not doing things would somehow prevent regret, when, of course, the exact opposite… — Nick Hornby
Let me have my tax money go for my protection and not for my prosecution. Let my tax money go for the protection of me.… — Harvey Milk
If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of… — Samuel Adams
Our lives are about development, mutation and the possibility of change; that is almost a definition of what life is: change... If you disable change,… — Iain Banks
It seems to me them that sees an evil thing unfold and don't do nothin' to prevent it, are just as bad as them that… — Kate Constable
As sure as this Earth is turnin, souls burnin / In search of higher learnin, turnin in every direction seeking direction / My moms cryin… — Jay-Z
A stumble may prevent a fall. — Thomas Fuller
It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility,… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
We're so arrogant, aren't we? So afraid of age, we do everything we can to prevent it. We don't realize what a privilege it is… — Cecelia Ahern
â€ŽWhat is to prevent, say, an uprising? — Suzanne Collins
We all play chess with Fate as partner. He makes a move, we make a move. He tries to checkmate us in three moves, we… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
â€ŽWe must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat… — Thomas Jefferson
The real unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, without anger,… — Lois McMaster Bujold
Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the… — Rachel Carson
We know, at least, that this decision (ending factory farming) will help prevent deforestation, curb global warming, reduce pollution, save oil reserves, lessen the burden… — Jonathan Safran Foer
The flock gets sight of a spot of blood on some chicken and they all go to peckin' at it, see, till they rip the… — Ken Kesey
The key to a successful relationship isnâ€™t just in the words, itâ€™s in the choice of punctuation. When youâ€™re in love with someone, a well-placed… — David Levithan

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