Prevent Quotes

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In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting… — George Washington
By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education.... From television, the child will have learned how to pick… — John F. Kennedy
Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will… — John Henry Newman
Your own self-will and anxiety, your hurry and labor, disturb your peace and prevent Me from working in you. Look at the little flowers, in… — Gerhard Tersteegen
The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder… — Ike Skelton
I came in with a healthy skepticism about these programs. My team evaluated them. We scrubbed them thoroughly. We actually expanded some of the oversight,… — Barack Obama
Just your laughter will be enough to prevent the war. Your celebration, your dance, will be enough to prevent the war. Your ecstasy, your meditation,… — Rajneesh
Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have… — William Penn
The only way I would go back to hosting would be if it were something entirely new. It would prevent me from wanting to host… — Garry Shandling
And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than… — Antonin Artaud
A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will… — Albert Einstein
Restoring nature to its natural state is a cause beyond party and beyond factions. It has become a common cause of all the people of… — Richard M. Nixon
If you believe that man is inherently flawed-what religious people call 'original sin'-it follows that man, if left to his own devices, will tend towards… — Rod Dreher
And just as there are no crimes so detestable that they can prevent the gift of grace, so too there can be no works so… — Prosper of Aquitaine
Isolating mechanisms are biological properties of individuals that prevent the interbreeding of populations that are actually or potentially sympatric. — Ernst Mayr
Power is the great evil with which we are contending. We have divided power between three branches of government and erected checks and balances to… — Patrick Henry
If we do not do something to prevent it, Africa's animals, and the places in which they live, will be lost to our world, and… — Nelson Mandela
What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again — Anne Frank
I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making… — Donald Knuth
It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If in a battle, I seize a bit of debatable land with a handful of soldiers, without having done anything to prevent an enemy bombardment… — Aron Nimzowitsch
To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine. — Isaac Watts
I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals. — Georg Brandes
We hoped against hope that what we had been doing was enough to prevent a riot. It was not enough. — Jerome Cavanagh
I don't need arms, and neither does anyone else... At the very least, a ban would prevent fights from turning deadly. — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

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