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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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Judges must be free from political intervention or intimidation.

  Stockwell Day

  Judging, Political, Intimidation

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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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• If ever there was a time this country needed the intervention of God, it is now.

  Billy Graham

  Country, Needed, Ifs

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• Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

  Nelson Mandela

  Peace, War, People

  Nelson Mandela (1998). “In the Words of Nelson Mandela”, Birch Lane Press

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• In all the more advanced communities the great majority of things are worse done by the intervention of government than the individuals most interested in the matter would do them, or cause them to be done, if left to themselves.

  John Stuart Mill

  Government, Community, Majority

  John Stuart Mill (1866). “Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy”, p.571

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• If we keep our little flame alive, our first feeling of enthusiasm of who we are, without the influence or intervention of others, we will prevail.

  Patti Smith

  Flames, Feelings, Alive

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• Whenever there is some trouble in any area of the economy, the simplest solution to many people is "Let the government fix it." Yet ... every time the government uses its money or its power to favor this group or that ... the net result is such a web of supports, subsidies, interventions and controls that it is almost impossible for a nation to find its way back into a dynamic system of really free enterprise.

  Lawrence Fertig

  Government, People, Support

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• This attempt to ban smoking is an example of social engineering on a vast scale. Such massive intervention in the private lives and choices of one quarter of our adult population recalls the extremism of Prohibition, the last national crusade against a supposed social evil.

  Charles Orville Whitley

  Engineering, Evil, Choices

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• It drove home, personally, the value of early detection and education and intervention.

  Janet Napolitano

  Cancer, Home, Detection

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• There is still a tendency to regard any existing government intervention as desirable, to attribute all evils to the market, and to evaluate new proposals for government control in their ideal form, as they might work if run by able, disinterested men free from the pressure of special interest groups.

  Milton Friedman

  Running, Men, Evil

  Milton Friedman (2009). “Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition”, p.197, University of Chicago Press

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• Hitherto, no rival hypothesis has been proposed as a substitute for the doctrine of transmutation; for 'independent creation,' as it is often termed, or the direct intervention of the Supreme Cause, must simply be considered as an avowal that we deem the question to lie beyond the domain of science.

  Charles Lyell

  Lying, Independent, Science

  Charles Lyell (1863). “The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man with Remarks on Theories of the Origin of Species by Variation by Charles Lyell”, p.421

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• If someone had asked who could stage the best intervention with a crazy woman who had formerly been an undead monster, Sydney Sage would have been my last guess.

  Richelle Mead

  Crazy, Sage, Lasts

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.180, Penguin

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