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• Society's double behavioral standard for women and for men is, in fact, a more effective deterrent than economic discrimination because it is more insidious, less tangible. Economic disadvantages involve ascertainable amounts, but the very nature of societal value judgments makes them harder to define, their effects harder to relate.

  Anne Wilkes Tucker

  Sex, Men, Tangible

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• Even an inaccurate missile is quite a deterrent.

  Caspar Weinberger

  Missiles

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• In the name of compassion, Obama advocates seemingly endless extensions of unemployment benefits because his economic theology holds that by paying people not to work, you will create jobs. It not only fails to factor in the obvious deterrent that extended benefits have on their recipients but also falsely assumes that transferring money from one pocket to the next generates more spending - by some mythical multiple factor, no less. Back on planet Earth, studies reveal that extending unemployment benefits results in more unemployment.

  David Limbaugh

  Jobs, Compassion, Names

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• Iran has been calling for it for years, and the Arab countries support it. Everyone except the United States and Israel support it. The U.S. won't allow it because it means inspecting Israel's nuclear weapons. The U.S. has continued to block it, and in fact blocked it again just a couple of days ago; it just wasn't widely reported. Iran's nuclear program, as U.S. intelligence points out, is deterrent, and the bottom line is that the U.S. and Israel don't want Iran to have a deterrent.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Couple, Block

  "Noam Chomsky on the 2016 Republicans: "I Have Never Seen Such Lunatics in the Political System". Interview with Simone Chun, www.alternet.org. March 11, 2016.

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• If you live in a material universe where acquiring things is very important to you, then family is an absolute deterrent to maintaining that sort of a world, because family involves values like affection, and sympathy, and passion, and types of pleasure that lead nowhere in a material sense.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Passion, Important, Acquiring Things

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• My main contribution was to demolish the myths that India couldn't economically afford nuclear weapons. Of course I made these political arguments too, but the main contribution I made was a study of the cost of acquiring a credible deterrent, and show that it was within the budget of India, and it would not be an unbearable burden.

  Subramanian Swamy

  Political, Cost, Weapons

  "India’s Nuclear Option". Interview in New Delhi, India, lsopenvault01.wgbh.org. February 12, 1987.

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• Family prayer is the greatest deterrent to sin, and hence the most beneficent provider of joy and happiness. The old saying is yet true: 'The family that prays together stays together.'

  Thomas S. Monson

  Family, Happiness, Happy

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• Gun-free zones don't deter criminals-they help them by providing a guarantee that they will not face any armed resistance. But they do deter the law-abiding. A faculty member with a concealed-handgun permit who breaks the campus gun ban would be fired and likely find it impossible to get admitted to another school. Bringing a firearm into a gun-free zone can have serious adverse consequences for law-abiding people. But for someone like the Virginia Tech killer, the threat of expulsion is no deterrent at all.

  Glenn Beck

  School, Gun, Virginia

  Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe, Hannah Beck (2013). “Control: Exposing the Truth About Guns”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• Mutually Assured Destruction, MAD, works only as long as it works; it does not know what to do if deterrence fails, for it envisions no defensive capabilities. A deterrent works until it is needed; then one needs defenses.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Peace, War, Long

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• Clouds are no deterrent. Clouds intensify the drama, trap and shape the light.

  Don DeLillo

  Drama, Clouds, Light

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.358, Pan Macmillan

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• I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves." Another "I was raised to believe that excellence is the deterrent to racism and sexism. And that's how I operate my life." And another "It does not matter who you are or where you came from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Gossip, Praying

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• One theory is that we will make war look so attractive that we undermine the deterrent. That's Never Never Land. What we have now would have been enough to deter Hitler. But we are talking in a different order of reality.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  War, Reality, Order

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• The larger the percentage of the national income taken by taxes the greater the deterrent to private production and employment. When the total tax burden grows beyond a bearable size, the problem of devising taxes that will not discourage and disrupt production becomes insoluble.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Taken, Political, Income

  Henry Hazlitt (2010). “Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics”, p.35, Crown Business

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• One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action.

  Robert McNamara

  Fashion, Action, Incredibles

  Robert S. McNamara (1968). “The essence of security: reflections in office”

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• A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.

  Warren E. Burger

  Judgement, Trials, Poverty

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• Sometimes the greatest deterrent to a great marriage is believing you have a perfect marriage.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Believe, Perfect, Sometimes

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• If North Korea doesn't have a deterrent, they will be wiped out.

  Noam Chomsky

  Korea, North Korea, Ifs

  "Noam Chomsky on the 2016 Republicans: "I Have Never Seen Such Lunatics in the Political System". Interview with Simone Chun, www.alternet.org. March 11, 2016.

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• But, if recent history has taught us anything, it’s that self-regulation doesn’t work in finance, and that worries about reputation are a weak deterrent to corporate malfeasance.

  James Surowiecki

  Taught Us, Self, Worry

  "Bankers Gone Wild" by James Surowiecki, www.newyorker.com. July 30, 2012.

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• It is not the real punishment. The only effectual one, the only deterrent and softening one, lies in the recognition of sin by conscience.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lying, Real, Punishment

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.145, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• A dancer must have tremendous personality. A God like Christ and even a godman like Rajneesh had some personality. Combination of talent, dedication, creativity and being emotive is imperative. A coupling of these four qualities with technique is essential. Monotony is deterrent as it regards your style and I notice today, that new dancers perform in a startlingly similar fashion.

  Yamini Krishnamurthy

  Fashion, Creativity, Dedication

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• I have inquired for most of my adult life, about studies that might show that the death penalty is a deterrent, and I have not seen any research that would substantiate that point.

  Janet Reno

  Adults, Research, Might

  Janet Reno during weekly Press Conference, www.justice.gov. January 20, 2000.

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• Fraud will always exist. Enforcement of anti-fraud laws is a useful deterrent, but in the end there's no substitute for investor vigilance. Government regulations provide a false sense of security - and that's worth less than no sense of security at all.

  John Stossel

  Government, Law, Regulation

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• The effort to make financial or political profit out of the destruction of character can only result in public calamity. Gross and reckless assaults on character, whether on the stump or in newspaper, magazine, or book, create a morbid and vicious public sentiment, and at the same time act as a profound deterrent to able men of normal sensitiveness and tend to prevent them from entering the public service at any price.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Book, Character, Men

  The Man with the Muck-rake, delivered 14 April 1906

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• People who leave their cars on the street with tape covering their broken windows are obviously too trusting. I mean, when your car did have glass for a window, someone broke into it. How is tape any more of a deterrent? What are the thieves going to say? Ooh, that like looks like duct tape, we can't beat that. Let's look for one with scotch or masking.

  Aaron Karo

  Mean, Scotch, Glasses

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