Preventing Quotes
214 quotes by 196 authors
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Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater.…
— Albert Camus
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War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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For the first time, preventing nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism is now at the top of America's nuclear agenda.
— Barack Obama
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It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in…
— George Bernard Shaw
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There is nothing preventing the enemy reaching Paris. We were fighting on our last line and it has been breached. I am helpless, I cannot…
— Maxime Weygand
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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellow man, either by a considerable gift or a sum of money or by teaching him a…
— Maimonides
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The efficiency of a truly national leader consists primarily in preventing the division of the attention of a people, and always in concentrating it on…
— Adolf Hitler
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One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the world with this appalling problem. Actually there was…
— Enrico Fermi
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We are the only species on earth capable of preventing our own flowering.
— David Whyte
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Concentration is not thinking of one thing. On the contrary, it is excluding all thoughts, since all thoughts obstruct the sense of one's true being.…
— Ramana Maharshi
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The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The fear of meeting the opposition of envy, or the illiberality of ignorance is, no doubt, the frequent cause of preventing many ingenious men from…
— Robert Fulton
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The steam-engine in its manifold applications, the crime-decreasing gas-lamp, the lightning conductor, the electric telegraph, the law of storms and rules for the mariner's guidance…
— Richard Owen
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As soon as one knows one is going to die, childhood is over.... So one can be grown up at seven. Then, I believe most…
— Eugene Ionesco
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Pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being that suffers is not a member of…
— Peter Singer
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The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it.
— Max Lerner
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The answer lies in preventing failures not in looking for better ways to fix the children who are failing.
— William Glasser
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The chief value of the rule lies in preventing an immediate and obvious but inferior good from replacing a longer-range, less obvious but superior one.
— Ralph Raico
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An infinity of these tiny animals defoliate our plants, our trees, our fruits... they attack our houses, our fabrics, our furniture, our clothing, our furs…
— Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur
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The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be multiplied without preventing…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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