Preventing Quotes - Page 2

• We must kill the false woman who is preventing the live one from breathing.

  Helene Cixous

  Breathing

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• There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts.

  Scilla Elworthy

  Peace, Understanding, Stories

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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 past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sports, Sarcastic, Past

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• The basic prescription for preventing deflation is therefore straightforward, at least in principle: Use monetary and fiscal policy as needed to support aggregate spending, in a manner as nearly consistent as possible with full utilization of economic resources and low and stable inflation. In other words, the best way to get out of trouble is not to get into it in the first place.

  Ben Bernanke

  Business, Support, Principles

  "Deflation: Making Sure "It" Doesn't Happen Here". Ben Bernanke's Remarks Before the National Economists Club in Washington, D.C., www.federalreserve.gov. November 21, 2002.

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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

  Nuclear Terrorism, America, Nuclear Proliferation

  "AP Exclusive: Chile gives US weapons-grade uranium", www.foxnews.com. April 8, 2010.

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• Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Cutting, Thinking, Mind

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.83, New World Library

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• We all get lost once in a while, sometimes by choice, sometimes due to forces beyond our control. When we learn what it is our soul needs to learn, the path presents itself. Sometimes we see the way out but wander further and deeper despite ourselves; the fear, the anger or the sadness preventing us returning. Sometimes we prefer to be lost and wandering, sometimes it's easier. Sometimes we find our own way out. But regardless, always, we are found.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Believe, Sadness, Choices

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• Some argue that now isn't the time to push the green agenda - that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is a false choice. It fails to recognise that climate change and our carbon reliance is part of problem - high fuel prices and food shortages due to poor crop yields compound today's financial difficulties.

  Lucy Powell

  Yield, Fuel Prices, Effort

  "Saving the economy or saving the planet is not an either-or" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2008.

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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 no choice. Once basic knowledge is acquired, any attempt at preventing its fruition would be as futile as hoping to stop the earth from revolving around the sun.

  Enrico Fermi

  Choices, Might, Sun

  Enrico Fermi (1965). “Note e memorie (Collected papers)”

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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 a single enemy.

  Adolf Hitler

  Power, People, Leader

  Adolf Hitler (1939). “Mein Kampf: Complete and Unabridged, Fully Annotated”

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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 trade or by putting him in the way of business so that he may earn an honest livelihood and not be forced to the dreadful alternative of holding out his hand for charity. This is the highest step and summit of charity's golden ladder.

  Maimonides

  Teaching, Men, Compassion

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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. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.

  Albert Camus

  World, Reform, Tasks

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts.

  Leon Kass

  Cloning, Process, Reproductive Health

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• What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems... there's no law of physics preventing them.

  Michio Kaku

  Engineering, Law, Impossible

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• Preventing terrorist attacks is of the highest important, but trashing the Constitution is not the right way to do it.

  Eliot Engel

  Important, Way, Constitution

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• Many of my students assume that government protection is the only thing ensuring decent wages for most American workers. But basic economics shows that competition between employers for workers can be very effective at preventing businesses from misbehaving.

  Christina Romer

  Government, Competition, Wages

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• If they are opposed to abortion, they should be for preventing unintended pregnancies.

  Louise Slaughter

  Pregnancy, Abortion, Should

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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 ushering opinions into the world which deviate from common practice. Hence for want of energy, the young idea is shackled with timidity and a useful thought is buried in the impenetrable gloom of eternal oblivion.

  Robert Fulton

  Ignorance, Science, Men

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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 large, and more especially to give them knowledge of those facts which history exhibits, that possessed thereby of the experience of other ages and countries, they may be enabled to know ambition under all its shapes, and prompt to exert their natural powers to defeat its purposes.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Ambition, Mean

  Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). “The Real Thomas Jefferson”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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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. All efforts are to be directed simply to removing the veil of ignorance. Concentrating the mind solely on the Self will lead to happiness or bliss. Drawing in the thoughts, restraining them and preventing them from straying outwards is called detachment (vairagya). Fixing them in the Self is spiritual practice (sadhana). Concentrating on the heart is the same as concentrating on the Self. Heart is another name for Self.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Spiritual, Heart, Ignorance

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• Enoki mushrooms, a tasty variety commonly sold in grocery stores, were one of the first mushrooms studied for preventing cancer.

  Paul Stamets

  Cancer, Mushrooms, Firsts

  "Can Eating Enoki Mushrooms Lower Your Cancer Risk?" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 18, 2013.

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• Bonobo studies started in the '70s and came to fruition in the '80s. Then in the '90s, all of a sudden, boom, they ended because of the warfare in the Congo. It was really bad for the bonobo and ironic that people with their warfare were preventing us from studying the hippies of the primate world.

  Frans de Waal

  Hippie, People, Ironic

  "The Bonobo in All of Us". Interview with Sue Western, www.pbs.org. September 29, 2005.

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• We are the only species on earth capable of preventing our own flowering.

  David Whyte

  Earth, Flowering, Species

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• Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one.

  John W. Vessey, Jr.

  Strength, War, Self

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• Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

  Paul Valery

  Art, Business, People

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