Avert Quotes

• The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?

  H. G. Wells

  World Government, Order, Nwo

  H. G. Wells (2007). “The New World Order”, p.46, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• If there had been a Financial Product Safety Commission in place 10 years ago, the current financial crisis would have been averted.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Years, Safety, Financial

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• We cannot avert our eyes without staining our souls.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Eye, Soul

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• I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Effort, Humanity, Would Be

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.129, I.B.Tauris

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• To avert disaster, we have not only to teach men to make things but to teach them to have complete moral control over what they make.

  Prince Charles

  Men, Morality, Disaster

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• When young people grow up....they shine so much that old people want to avert their gaze.

  Tite Kubo

  Growing Up, People, Shining

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• Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

  Horace

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• To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.

  Alvin Toffler

  Individual, Shock, Adaptable

  ALVIN TOFFLER (1970). “FUTURE SHOCK”

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• The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the hardest thing, because we want to flinch. The artist must go into the white hot center of himself, and our impulse when we get there is to look away and avert our eyes.

  Robert Olen Butler

  Mean, Eye, Artist

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• It is not true that fate slips silently into our lives. It steps in through the door that we have opened, and we invite it to enter. No one is strong enough or cunning enough to avert by word or deed the misfortune that is rooted in the iron laws of his character and his life.

  Sándor Márai

  Strong, Character, Fate

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• Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet's climate system into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced - a catastrophe of our own making.

  Al Gore

  Epic, Years, Weather

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• You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.

  Kim Edwards

  Missing, Trying, Rest Of Your Life

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.84, Penguin

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• We live in a very special time right now. At no other time in history has there been such mass disillusionment in terms of reliance on governing functions. Most people don’t want to come to terms with that. It’s been proven over and over again that the emperor isn’t wearing any clothes, but most people don’t like to look at naked emperors. In the process of turning around to avert their eyes, they saw the discotheques and a few other things and latched onto them.

  Frank Zappa

  Eye, Clothes, People

  Oui interview, 1979.

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• With some diseases, like type 2 diabetes, if people get alerted early they can take steps to avert getting sick.

  Elizabeth Holmes

  Type 2 Diabetes, People, Sick

  "This Woman Invented a Way to Run 30 Lab Tests on Only One Drop of Blood". Interview with Caitlin Roper, www.wired.com. February 18, 2014.

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• Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Strong, Causes, Drink

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• The second class of evils comprises such evils as people cause to each other, when, e.g. , some of them use their strength against others. These evils are more numerous than those of the first kind... they likewise originate in ourselves, though the sufferer himself cannot avert them.

  Maimonides

  Class, People, Evil

  Moses Maimonides (2016). “Guide for the perplexed”, p.1036, Moses Maimonides

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• If you think that you can sin, and then by cries avert the consequences of sin, you insult God's character.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Character, Thinking, Hypocrisy

  Frederick William Robertson (1866). “Sermons”, p.189

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• There was no simple riddance to the power of a dangerous political idea; no assassination possible to avert a disruptive change in technology; no natural death to be counted on to stop an economic change that ripped up ancestral estates or stirred up class discontent.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Simple, Technology, Class

  "The Future As History". Book by Robert Heilbroner, Chapter I, Part 6, The Inevitability of Progress, p. 31, 1960.

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• Our courage is greater to dare a visible than an imagined danger. A visible danger rouses our energies to meet or avert it; a fancied peril appalls from its presenting nothing to be resisted. Thus, a panic is, usually, a sudden going over to the enemy of our imagination. All is then lost, for we have not only to fight against that enemy, but our imagination as well.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Fighting, Imagination, Enemy

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• The window of opportunity to avert famine is rapidly closing and could already have closed. The real issue facing us is not whether there will be famine but how many people will actually die.

  Catherine Bertini

  Real, Opportunity, Issues

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• However, in spite of the general perception that monetary policy should be conducted so as to avert deflation, a central bank cannot lower interest rates below the zero lower bound.

  Toshihiko Fukui

  Zero, Perception, Should

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• John F. Kennedy:] Above all, while defending our own vital interests, nuclear powers must avert those confrontations which bring down an adversary to the choice of either a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war.

  Elie Abel

  War, Choices, Nuclear

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• The observance of Lent is the very badge of Christian warfare. By it we prove ourselves not to be enemies of Christ. By it we avert the scourges of divine justice. By it we gain strength against the princes of darkness, for it shields us with heavenly help. Should men grow remiss in their observance of Lent, it would be a detriment to God’s glory, a disgrace to the Catholic religion, and a danger to Christian souls. Neither can it be doubted that such negligence would become the source of misery to the world, of public calamity, and of private woe.

  Pope Benedict XIV

  Christian, Men, Catholic Religion

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• As far as world war goes, there are really only two possibilities: either war provokes revolution, or revolution averts war.

  Mao Zedong

  War, Two, World

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• I have a real problem when people say, "Well I walked by and you should have seen what was on the computer screen." Well, don't look, sweetie. It's none of your business. Avert your eyes.

  Judith Krug

  Real, Eye, Should Have

  "A Library That Would Rather Block Than Offend," by Pamela Mendels, The New York Times, archive.nytimes.com. January 18, 199.

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