Preventing Quotes - Page 2

• Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

  Abraham Maslow

  Communication, Way, Language

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• So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty.

  James Wolfensohn

  Needs, Way, Poverty

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• I believe C++ instills fear in programmers, fear that the interaction of some details causes unpredictable results. Its unmanageable complexity has spawned more fear-preventing tools than any other language, but the solution should have been to create and use a language that does not overload the whole goddamn human brain with irrelevant details.

  Erik Naggum

  Believe, Should Have, Brain

  Re: Checking for Errors Before Run Time (Usenet article), groups.google.com. November 21, 2001.

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• Give the FBI unchecked domestic spying powers and instead of focusing on preventing terrorism, it will revert to doing what it does best - monitoring, harassing, and intimidating political dissidents and thousands of harmless immigrants.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Giving, Political, Doe

  "Ashcroft's Lies". prospect.org. June 27, 2002.

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• Physics admits of a lovely unification, not just at the level of fundamental forces, but when considering its extent and implications. Classifications like "optics" or "thermodynamics" are just straitjackets, preventing physicists from seeing countless intersections.

  Ted Chiang

  Lovely, Fundamentals, Levels

  Ted Chiang (2016). “Arrival (Stories of Your Life MTI)”, p.52, Vintage

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• Preventing people from illegally immigrating to the United States should be the primary purpose of Customs and Border Protection.

  Ted Cruz

  People, Borders, Purpose

  "TED CRUZ TO OBAMA: You Must Help Texas Solve The Border Crisis Now" by Brett LoGiurato, www.businessinsider.com. June 19, 2014.

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• In the wiretapping, despite all the momentum for a more assertive Congress, you're seeing Congress backing down, because there are many Republicans and even Democrats who are afraid of being seen as preventing the president from protecting the nation.

  Bill Vaughan

  President, Momentum, Republican

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• The principal impact of foreign enterprise on the development of the underdeveloped countries lies in hardening and strengthening the sway of merchant capitalism, in slowing down and indeed preventing its transformation into industrial capitalism.

  Paul A. Baran

  Country, Lying, Impact

  Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.194, NYU Press

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• Cancer was the most terrifying, arduous, painful thing, but it was also a profound gift in the sense that I was holding so much in my body for so many years that was dark and terrifying which was preventing my coming back into myself.

  Eve Ensler

  Cancer, Dark, Years

  "Interview with Eve Ensler: In The Body of the World". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 29, 2013.

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• Masturbation never got anybody pregnant, does not make anybody go crazy, and what we're about is preventing HIV in our bright young people.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Sex, Crazy, People

  "Dr. Joycelyn Elders: Marijuana, Masturbation and Medicine". Interview with Laura Flanders, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 20, 2010.

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• I think that if the atomic bomb did nothing more, it scared the people to the point where they realized that either they must do something about preventing war or there is a chance that there might be a morning when we would not wake up.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Morning, War, Thinking

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• Charles Fox said that restorations were the most bloody of all revolutions; and he might have added that reformations are the best mode of preventing the necessity of either.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Restoration, Might, Revolution

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• Midwives and doctors play a crucial role preventing unnecessary maternal deaths. They educate women about nutrition, health and family planning. And they step in when complications arise.

  Liya Kebede

  Doctors, Play, Roles

  "Why Protests Aren’t What we Should Remember About The G8" by Liya Kebede, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 13, 2010.

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• Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  War, Evil, Growth

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.131, Beacon Press

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• One of the most persistent fallacies about the Christian Church is that it kept learning alive during the Dark and Middle Ages. What the Church did was to keep learning alive in the monasteries, while preventing the spread of knowledge outside them... Even as late as the beginning of the nineteenth century, however, nine-tenths of Christian Europe was illiterate.

  Margaret E. Knight

  Christian, Dark, Europe

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• The path the capitalist revolution will take faces in exactly the opposite direction from that taken by the communist revolution. It seeks to diffuse the private ownership of capital instead of abolishing it entirely. It seeks to make all men capitalists instead of preventing anyone from being a capitalist by making the State the only capitalist.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Taken, Men

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• I know deep hurt. But I also know deep hope. Sometimes God's power is shown as much in preventing things as it is in making them happen. We may never know why. But we can always know and trust the Who.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Hurt, May, Sometimes

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Aug 10, 2016

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• Recognizing and preventing men's health problems is not just a man's issue. Because of its impact on wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters, men's health is truly a family issue.

  Bill Richardson

  Mother Daughter, Men, Issues

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• It must be an independent House, having a free action of its own, for it is only valuable as being a regulating body, calmly considering the legislation initiated by the popular branch, and preventing any hasty or ill considered legislation which may come from that body, but it will never set itself in opposition against the deliberate and understood wishes of the people.

  John A. Macdonald

  Independent, People, House

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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