Intervention Quotes

• A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis.

  Temple Grandin

  Children, Educational, Doe

  Interview with Dr. Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 1, 1996.

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• Global overcapacity in steel production can no longer be ignored. Foreign governments' intervention in steel markets has had a devastating impact on the U.S. industry.

  Max Baucus

  Impact, Government, Steel

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• If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Military, Past, Simple

  "The Libyan Conundrum". content.time.com. March 10, 2011.

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• Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.

  Benjamin Franklin

  4th Of July, Noses, Wipe

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Thinking, Blessing, Democratic Socialism

  "'Everybody in the World Except US Citizens Should Be Allowed to Vote and Elect the American Government' - Leading Intellectual Slavoj Žižek". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. March 11, 2008.

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• However, lifestyle intervention requires discipline with a tangible end result that is within reach. It requires personal resolve, a lifelong commitment.

  Tim Holden

  Commitment, Discipline, Tangible

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• Iraq now says that it will, after all, destroy its missiles. President Bush said, 'Please, I used to pull the same trick. There'd be an intervention, I'd make a big show of pouring out the liquor and then there was a case under the floorboards.'

  Bill Maher

  Iraq, President, Pouring

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• This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be a currency for peace and international cooperation.

  Bill Frist

  Water, Borders, Needs

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• If you accept that security is a process, and if you can eliminate the human interaction or intervention in that process by automating more, that is a good thing.

  John W. Thompson

  Good Things, Accepting, Process

  "Interview: Symantec's John Thompson talks about big picture security". Interview with Ed Scannell, www.infoworld.com. June 16, 2004.

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• I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.

  Benjamin Spock

  War, Korea, Vietnam

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• We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revolution in the Western Hemisphere, free from American intervention

  Lee Harvey Oswald

  Independent, Men, Ideas

  Diane Holloway, Lee Harvey Oswald (2000). “The Mind of Oswald”, p.164, Trafford on Demand Pub

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• There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit.

  Pat Summerall

  Mother, Daughter, Couple

  "Pat Summerall: Gridiron, God, and Graham". Interview With Andrew Knox, www.cbn.com.

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• We've been blessed with four beautiful children. Michael, he doesn't have much of a problem anymore. He is high functional, probably because of early intervention.

  Dan Marino

  Beautiful, Sports, Children

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• Everything intercepts us from ourselves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Alienation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.85, Harvard University Press

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• Since the intervention in Afghanistan, we suddenly began to notice when, in political discussions, we found ourselves only among Europeans or Israelis.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Political, Found, Afghanistan

  "Philosophy in a Time of Terror". Book by By Giovanna Borradori. Chapter 1, 2003.

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• I am a big believer in early intervention.

  Temple Grandin

  Bigs, Believer

  Interview with Dr. Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 1, 1996.

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• Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Respect, Mean, Desire

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• Judges must be free from political intervention or intimidation.

  Stockwell Day

  Judging, Political, Intimidation

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• Tony Blair faced a massive defection from his own party ranks during voting around the intervention in Iraq. For our present purpose, the point is not that he survived the defection, but that he had to face it.

  Stockwell Day

  Party, Iraq, Voting

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• Newborn screening is a public health intervention that involves a simple blood test used to identify many life-threatening genetic illnesses before any symptoms begin.

  Lucille Roybal-Allard

  Simple, Blood, Tests

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• What I object to the current government intervention in so-called 'solving the crisis', they haven't solved anything. They've just postponed it.

  Marc Faber

  Government, Currents, Crisis

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• The problem for Rome, then, is how and when the intervention should be done with a sense of the possibility of going too far in limiting the freedom of theologians. This is not an easy time - neither for Rome nor for the theologians.

  Godfried Danneels

  Rome, Done, Problem

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• Well, you know, certain - for one reason, I think that the intervention process is a good process for most people, but for me, it just looked like a bunch of my friends trying to get back at me and sit around taking jabs at me, you know, when I couldn't defend myself.

  Tanya Tucker

  Friends, Thinking, People

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• When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of the alphabet according to that tradition, then that makes certain expressions of modernity, even of interventions on the textual level, possible.

  Alexander Kluge

  Thinking, Expression, People

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• Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Educational, Media, Osteoporosis

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