Prevent Quotes

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Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life. — John Wooden
We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new… — Virginia Woolf
You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done. — Chuck Yeager
After World War II it was decided that, in order to prevent the Germans and the French from having another war, it would be better… — Frans de Waal
Winning the Pritzker assures a flood of work in one's seventies and eighties, jobs necessarily carried out by assistants as the demands of modern-day cultural… — Martin Filler
One argument against open systems is that they become open to everything, good and bad. Like a Richard Meier skyscraper, the anal retentive, Bauhaus elegance… — Douglas Rushkoff
Death never mattered at those times - in the early days I even used to pray for it: the shattering annihilation that would prevent for… — Graham Greene
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is… — Epicurus
Mother always said she was a size 7 woman she kept wrapped in fat to prevent bruising. — Haven Kimmel
It is above all in the present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur must remain constantly vigilant and ready to… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended.... Idleness as such is by no… — Soren Kierkegaard
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting… — George Bernard Shaw
I have never yet found that the advice of a Sister could prevent a young Man's being in love if he chose it. — Jane Austen
There are times when American politics seems like little more than two groups in a fever to prevent each other from trespassing upon their respective… — Matt Taibbi
If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing. — Coco Chanel
When you go to church you are really listening-in to the secret wireless from out friends: that is why the enemy is so anxious to… — C.S. Lewis
Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past cant prevent you from being present now,… — Eckhart Tolle
As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake. — Hannah Arendt
When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid; it can't last long." But though a war may well be "too stupid," that doesn't… — Albert Camus
But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to… — Jane Austen
She had just realized there were two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made… — Paulo Coelho
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars. — Rabindranath Tagore
Electronic books are a bad thing because they cannot be accumulated on shelves to remind you of your past, to impress your neighbors and colleagues,… — J P Donleavy
In an ideal world the scientist should find a method to prevent the most severe forms of autism but allow the milder forms to survive.… — Temple Grandin

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