Preventing Quotes - Page 7

• For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations, on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring analysis is out of date.

  Laurent Fabius

  Technology, Long, Would Be

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• The long-term solution in preventing another famine in Somalia is to promote self-reliance.

  Hawa Abdi

  Self, Long, Somalia

  "The doctor undaunted by Somalia's insurgents" by Laila Ali, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2011.

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• An industry devoted to serving the public's right to know gives twisted and evil men the means of becoming known. This problem is not obviously amenable to a solution, and it certainly is not amenable to a legal one. A regime of media regulation that would be both effective at preventing mass shootings and consistent with the American Constitution is no easier to imagine than a regime of gun regulation that would meet the same criteria.

  James Taranto

  Mean, Gun, Men

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• There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force, but the destructive power of modern weapons eliminates even the possibility that war may serve as a negative good.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  War, Evil, Growth

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.109, Beacon Press

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• A little criticism makes me angry, and a little rejection makes me depressed. A little praise raises my spirits, and a little success excites me. It takes very little to raise me up or thrust me down. Often I am like a small boat on the ocean, completely at the mercy of its waves. All the time and energy I spend in keeping some kind of balance and preventing myself from being tipped over and drowning shows my life is mostly a struggle for survival: not a holy struggle, but an anxious struggle resulting from the mistaken idea that it is the world that defines me.

  Henri Nouwen

  Ocean, Struggle, Self

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming”, p.42, Image

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• Learning is to discover that something is possible. We are using most of our energies for self-destructiv e games, self-preventing games. We prevent ourselves from growing the very moment something unpleasant, something painful comes up. At that moment we become phobic, we run away, we desensitize ourselves. Neurotic suffering is suffering in imagination, suffering in fantasy.

  Frederick Salomon Perls

  Running, Self, Games

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• We scientists, whose tragic destination has been to help in making the methods of annihilation more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Purpose, Weapons

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• A [Jewish] woman could not divorce her husband, but she could petition for divorce, and the religious courts could force him to grant the divorce on grounds of impotence, denial of conjugal rights, or unreasonable restriction of her freedom-for example, preventing her from attending funerals or wedding parties.

  Israel Shenker

  Religious, Husband, Party

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• I hold my face in my two hands. No, I am not crying. I hold my face in my two hands to keep the loneliness warm - two hands protecting, two hands nourishing, two hands preventing my soul from leaving me in anger.

  Nhat Hanh

  Loneliness, Self, Hands

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2013). “Call Me by My True Names: The Collected Poems”, p.15, Parallax Press

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• Many priests and employees at temples work for pay. No one should judge religion on the basis of the shortcomings of such workers. We should frame suitable rules and regulations for preventing them from falling prey to material temptations. The true guiding spirits of religion are those who engage in selfless service while dedicating their entire lives to attaining the vision of God.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Fall, Judging

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• Preventing radicalization that leads to violence here in America is part of our larger strategy to decisively defeat al Qaeda.

  Denis McDonough

  America, Als, Violence

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• The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.

  Denis McDonough

  United States, Lines, Problem

  "Special Report's Contrasting Previews Of The King And Durbin Hearings On American Muslims" by Brian Powell, www.mediamatters.org. March 29, 2011.

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• Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war.

  Raul Castro

  War, Winning

  "Mountain of Snakes (Part II)" by Sean Penn, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 30, 2008.

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• We have forgotten that curing cancer starts with preventing cancer in the first place.

  David Agus

  Cancer, Firsts, Forgotten

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• Finding out exactly what went wrong is key toward preventing future debacles.

  Chuck Grassley

  Keys, Debacles, Findings

  "Grassley lifts hold on the FCC" by Eliza Krigman, www.politico.com. April 27, 2012.

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• Could we have prevented in 100% certainty? I don't think anything is that certain. However, we would have had a very, very good chance for preventing it.

  Sibel Edmonds

  Thinking, Chance, Certain

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• If we are really serious about preventing another crisis like the 2008 meltdown we should simply ban complex financial instruments, unless they can be unambiguously shown to benefit society in the long run. This is what we do all the time with other products-drugs, cars, electrical products and many others.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Running, Business, Long

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• We are constantly emphasizing to people that they need to address anything that affects flight safety or mission success, many pathways to do that, and we need to understand better what might be preventing people from using those pathways.

  Ellen Ochoa

  People, Safety, Pathways

  "NASA Press Conference Regarding Findings of Astronaut Health Reviews". Ellen Ochoa's comments during NASA press conference at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., www.spaceref.com. July 27, 2007.

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• Preventing the conflicts of tomorrow means changing the mind-set of youth today.

  Graca Machel

  Mean, Mind, Today

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• When our intellect has shaken off its many opinions about created things, then the inner principle of truth appears clearly to it, providing it with a foundation of real knowledge and removing its former preconceptions as though removing scales from eyes, as happened in the case of St. Paul (cf. Acts 9:18). For an understanding of Scripture that does not go beyond the literal meaning, and a view of the sensible world that relies exclusively on sense perception, are indeed scales, blinding the soul's visionary faculty and preventing access to the pure Logos of truth.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Real, Eye

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• Here is a principle to use in all aspects of economics and policy. When you find a good or service that is in huge demand but the supply is so limited to the point that the price goes up and up, look for the regulation that is causing it. This applies regardless of the sector, whether transportation, gas, education, food, beer, or daycare. There is something in the way that is preventing the market from working as it should. If you look carefully enough, you will find the hand of the state making the mess in question.

  Jeffrey Tucker

  Beer, Hands, Daycare

  FaceBook post by Jeffrey A. Tucker from Jan 24, 2015

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• If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication.

  Richard Rosen

  Communication, America, Seventies

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• There'll be some savings from preventing double dipping by public servants which are currently able to access not one but two fully tax payer funded schemes and of course there will be out paid parental leave levy. So all up not only is this an important economic reform, an important reform to have to grow our economy more strongly, it also will leave the budget better off which will help us fix the mess that Labor has created with the budget.

  Tony Abbott

  Two, Important, Get Better

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Access to the outside world is preventing more censorship. I do think information flow is happening in China. .. There's no doubt in my mind that it's been a huge plus.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, Information Flow, Mind

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• I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, Political, Chinese

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