"Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted……" — Tony Benn

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• I love Italian opera - it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and… — D. H. Lawrence
• Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and… — Cameron Diaz
• The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are… — Adolf Hitler
• Absolutely love the new campaign from the Optimum Population Trust: do your bit for addressing climate change by having fewer… — Jonathon Porritt
• It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to… — Elihu Root
• We like democracy because why? The pathologies of the U.S. version are so obvious in the aftermath of the latest… — Noah Feldman
• My life is one long daily, hourly record of answered prayer. For physical health, for mental overstrain, for guidance given… — Mary Slessor
• Catastrophe was only narrowly averted. It was all due to the faith of one man! Yes, you who called us… — Robert Ley
• Stephen Blackpool fall into the loneliest of lives, the life of solitude among a familiar crowd. The stranger in the… — Charles Dickens
• So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned. — Michael Kinsley
• R-4 got stuck on the First Law. "Can anyone really protect a human being from all harm whatever?" it thought.… — John Thomas Sladek
• Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the… — George Eliot

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