Prevention Quotes - Page 6

• The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.

  Thomas Friedman

  Country, War, Fighting

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• I can't talk about - as eloquently as everyone else about a prevention or medicine or, you know, funding, but I can talk about the human element, which is the main part of AIDS, because it comes to the human being and how they are being treated, what medicines they are on and what medicines they are not on.

  Elton John

  Medicine, Elements, Aids

  "Elton John on AIDS: Compassion is Part of the Cure". Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. July 24, 2012.

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• A cancer is not simply a lung cancer. It doesn't simply have a certain kind of appearance under the microscope or a certain behavior, but it also has a set of changes in the genes or in the molecules that modify gene behavior that allows us to categorize cancers in ways that is very useful in thinking about new ways to control cancer by prevention and treatment.

  Harold E. Varmus

  Cancer, Thinking, Way

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Drug programs began to turn their attention and money away from prevention and into maintenance. Methadone was cheaper than social workers, I suppose.

  John Dufresne

  Drug, Attention, Maintenance

  Source: therumpus.net

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• So welcome 'Damsels in Distress,' an exhilarating gift of a comedy about college, the female intellect, the limitless male ego, inventing a new dance, and suicide prevention... This is the world as Stillman sees it, and to luxuriate for two hours in that retro bubble of sparkling wit is a pleasure not to be missed.

  Peter Travers

  Suicide, College, Two

  "Damsels in Distress" by Peter Travers, www.rollingstone.com. April 5, 2012.

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• Punishment is but legalized crime. In a society built on prevention, rather than retaliation, there would be very little crime. The few exceptions will be treated medically, as of unsound mind and body.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Punishment, Mind, Would Be

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• If you're making abortion illegal and undermining the various things that will allow the prevention of that need, it can only be a situation that goes from bad to worse.

  Willie Parker

  Abortion, Needs, Illegal

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• The worst thing we can do is to assume that the Electoral College [voting] resulting in the election of Donald Trump represents a mandate. It does not. He did not get the majority of the popular vote; that went to Hillary Clinton. That means those votes represent the consciousness of the nation, which is that abortion should be legal, that contraception and family planning are health issues and prevention, that a woman's right to reproductive privacy is the law of the land and should remain such.

  Willie Parker

  Mean, College, Law

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• On the most recent battles on health insurance reform, the women led the battle to end gender discrimination by the insurance companies [where] women paid more and got less of a benefit, and also the whole issue of prevention.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Issues, Battle, Reform

  Interview with Brien Williams, digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu. May 4, 2010.

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• The Second Amendment's language and historical and philosophical background demonstrated that it was designed to guarantee individuals the possession of certain kinds of arms for three purposes: (1) crime prevention or what we would today describe as self-defense; (2) national defense; and (3) preservation of individual liberty.

  Don Kates

  Philosophical, Gun, Self

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• Marijuana legalization's income may help fund education, prevention and treatment programs for harder drugs. What's clear is that the four-decade-old U.S.-backed war on drugs is not working, and that it's producing tens of thousands of dead across the hemisphere, without significant gains in reducing consumption. Experimenting with new weapons to weaken the cartels may be better than doing nothing.

  Andres Oppenheimer

  War, Marijuana, Drug

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• The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

  Horace Mann

  Punishment, Evil, Made

  "Lectures and Annual Reports on Education".

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• Anyone desperate enough for suicide... should be desperate enough to go to creative extremes to solve problems: elope at midnight, stow away on the boat to New Zealand and start over, do what they always wanted to do but were afraid to try.

  Richard Bach

  Suicide, Suicidal, Starting Over

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• What we need to do is increase the totality of money that is given to the poorest areas and then we can do more on prevention but we have crucial needs at the moment just to get people out of poverty and to get the eight hundred million people that go to bed at night hungry, give them some food and some hope.

  James Wolfensohn

  Night, Eight, People

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• My own field, the prevention of genetic disorders in babies, has been possible only because of humane work on animals.

  Robert Winston

  Baby, Animal, Fields

  "The shame of our silence" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2006.

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• The Commission endorses prevention as the principal strategy to use in deterring illegal entries. We applaud the efforts of innovative Border Patrol leaders such as Silvestre Reyes with Operation Hold the Line in El Paso. Operation Hold the Line demonstrated that a strategic use of personnel and technology can combine at our land border, as it has for many years at our airports, to reduce unauthorized crossings.

  Barbara Jordan

  Technology, Airports, Years

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• When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sand paper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end, you end up polished and they end up useless.

  Chris Colfer

  Inspirational, Bullying, Hurt

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• Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.

  Andrew Vachss

  Bullying, Would Be, Life Is

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• If crime is going down, you shouldn't be increasing resources for crime prevention. Or you should be taking note of what has worked and concentrate the crime-prevention methods on policies that have a track record of success.

  Steven Pinker

  Track, Records, Crime

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• The Iraq war took priority over domestic disaster prevention.

  Charles Rangel

  War, Iraq, Priorities

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• Sergeant Colon of the Ankh-Morpork City Guard was on duty. He was guarding the Brass Bridge, the main link between Ankh and Morpork. From theft. When it came to crime prevention, Sergeant Colon found it safest to think big.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, Bridges, Cities

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Reaper Man: (Discworld Novel 11)”, p.52, Random House

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• The death penalty serves no one. It doesn't serve the victims. It doesn't serve prevention. It's truly all about retribution....There comes a time when you have to ask if a penalty that is so permanent can be available in such an imperfect system. The only guarantee against executing the innocent is to do away with the death penalty.

  Jeanne Woodford

  Guarantees, Death Penalty, Imperfect

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• After I suffered a labral tear in my hip while playing soccer, I realized that many sports-related injuries can be prevented and I dedicated myself to helping young athletes learn more about injury prevention.

  Cobi Jones

  Soccer, Sports, Athlete

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• In recent years, research into the prevention and treatment of arthritis has led to measures that successfully reduce pain and improve the quality of life for millions.

  Charles W. Pickering

  Love, Pain, Healing

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• The people have a vital interest in the conservation of their natural resources; in the prevention of wasteful practices.

  Herbert Hoover

  Practice, People, Conservative

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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