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• Either the future is subject to chance--in which case nobody, not even a god, can affect it one way or the other--or it is predestined, in which case foreknowledge cannot avert it.

  Quinto Tulio Cicerón

  Way, Chance, Cases

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• Si hay tiempo para exponer a través de la discusión la falsedad y las falacias, para evitar el mal mediante los procesos de la educación, el remedio que debe aplicarse es más discurso, no el silencio forzado.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Education, Time, Evil

  Whitney v. California (concurring opinion) (1927) See OliverWendell Holmes, Jr. 29

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• If, as a culture, we don’t bear witness to grief, the burden of loss is placed entirely upon the bereaved, while the rest of us avert our eyes and wait for those in mourning to stop being sad, to let go, to move on, to cheer up. And if they don’t — if they have loved too deeply, if they do wake each morning thinking, I cannot continue to live — well, then we pathologize their pain; we call their suffering a disease. We do not help them: we tell them that they need to get help.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Letting Go, Morning, Cheer

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• Lincoln's appeal to "the better angels of our nature" failed to avert a fratricidal war. But the compassionate wisdom of Lincoln's first and second inaugurals bequeathed to the Union, cemented with blood, a moral heritage which, when drawn upon in times of stress and strife, is sure to find specific ways and means to surmount difficulties that may appear to be insurmountable.

  Felix Frankfurter

  War, Stress, Mean

  Concurring, Cooper v. Aaron, 358 U.S. 1, 1958.

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• Para sobrevivir, para evitar lo que hemos denominado el choque del futuro, el individuo debe ser infinitamente más adaptable y capaz que nunca. Debemos buscar formas totalmente nuevas de anclarnos, pues todas las viejas raíces - religión, nación, comunidad, familia o profesión - tiemblan ahora bajo el impacto huracanado del empuje acelerador. Ya no son los recursos los que limitan las decisiones, es la decisión la que hace los recursos.

  Alvin Toffler

  Impact, Anchors, Roots

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• To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Arte, Medio, Ojo

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• La mayoría de nuestros ciudadanos disparan menos a medida que pasa el tiempo. Deberíamos fomentar la práctica del rifle entre los escolares, y de hecho entre todas las clases, así como en los servicios militares por todos los medios a nuestro alcance. Así, y no de otro modo, podremos ayudar a preservar la paz en el mundo... El primer paso - en la dirección de la preparación para evitar la guerra si es posible, y para estar preparados para la guerra si llegara - ¡es enseñar a los hombres a disparar!

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Militar, Guerra, Media

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• It's not white versus black any more, it's haves versus have-nots. Unless the black middle-classes unite to promote the interests of the black underclass, tension between them is inevitable. What we, the black middle class have to do, is think of a strategy to avert that.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Pensamiento, Clase, Blanco

  "El hermano mayor". Entrevista con Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. 20 th Of July de 2003.

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• True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions... It is a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to attempt to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely.

  Marco Tulio Cicerón

  Agreement, Law, Trying

  "De Re Publica" by Marcus Tullius Cicero, translated by Clinton W. Keyes, Book III, Section (22), 1928.

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• Al doblar la esquina, vio a dos docenas de hombres, desnudos hasta la cintura, cavando un hoyo de treinta metros cuadrados a un lado del camino. Por un momento se sintió desconcertado. No parecía tener fines agrícolas; ya no había que plantar ni arar. Entonces se dio cuenta de lo que era. Estaban cavando una fosa común. Pensó en gritar una orden para que dieran media vuelta o al menos apartaran la vista, pero ya estaban casi en ello y algunos de ellos ya habían visto su lugar de enterramiento. Las canciones murieron en sus labios y el aire fue reclamado por los pájaros.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Canción, Ojo, Hombres

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• In the twentieth century, men -- all of us -- find themselves compelled to commit or condone evil for the sake of preventing an evil believed to be greater. And the tragedy is that we do not know whether the evil we condone will not in the end be greater than the evil we seek to avert-- or be identified with.

  Emil Fackenheim

  Men, Evil, Tragedy

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• The ever-present expectancy of death is never far removed from any of us - whether we realize it or not. None of us can avoid it. It comes alike to the great and to the unknown; to the righteous and to the unrighteous. Wherein we differ is not in our ability to avert it, but in the preparedness with which we meet it. At such times some question the judgments of God. Some find bitterness because of the circumstances and because of the seeming untimeliness of death.

  Richard L. Evans

  Bitterness, Realizing, Judgment

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• A menos que establezcamos alguna forma de gobierno mundial, no nos será posible evitar una Tercera Guerra Mundial en el futuro.

  Winston Churchill

  Guerra, Gobierno Mundial, Derecho

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• There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone.

  Andrew Jackson

  Views, Ideas, Liberty

  "Citas personales/ Biografía". www.imdb.com.

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• ¿Podemos alcanzar la conciencia de la biosfera y la empatía global a tiempo para evitar el colapso planetario?

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Empathy, Consciousness, Biosphere

  Jeremy Rifkin (2010). “The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis”, p.616, Polity

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• Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to any other standard but pleasure and pain when you call them good?

  Plato

  Pain, Reason, Pleasure

  Catholic Way Publishing, Aristotle, Plato (2015). “The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]”, p.6136, Catholic Way Publishing

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• May I examine my mind in all actions and as soon as a negative state occurs, since it endangers myself and others, may I firmly face and avert it.

  Dalai Lama

  Mind, Negative, May

  Dalai Lama (2001). “The Compassionate Life”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• Sex cannot be understood because nature cannot be understood. Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality of nature's forces, and their frequent predictability. But science is always playing catch-up ball. Nature breaks its own rules whenever it wants. Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt. Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night can be pushed back and defeated.

  Camille

  Sex, Night, Light

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• In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abideth in the hard bone.

  Hafez

  Hopeful, Faces, Bones

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• The city of Copenhagen is a climate crime scene tonight, with the guilty men and women fleeing to the airport in shame. World leaders had a once in a generation chance to change the world for good, to avert catastrophic climate change. In the end they produced a poor deal full of loopholes big enough to fly Air Force One through.

  Kumi Naidoo

  Men, Airports, Cities

  "Meaningful Agreement: Obama Says ‘A First Step’ Climate Deal Has Been Reached In Copenhagen" by Craig Kanalley, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.

  David Chalmers

  Eye, People, Hoping For The Best

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• ...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all spontaneity of feeling, and seemed to herself to be passively awaiting a fate she could not avert.

  Edith Wharton

  Fate, Feelings, Spontaneity

  Edith Wharton (2001). “Summer”, p.138, Electric Book Company

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• By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving home the message that social programmes should promote family stability and avert breakdown.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Niños, Hogar, Padres

  "Iain Duncan Smith outlines yardsticks for success of social justice policy" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2012.

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• Maxilan, darling." Locke raised one eyebrow and smiled. "I knew you were driven, but I had no idea you could smoulder. Come, take me now! Jean won't mind; he'll avert his eyes like a gentleman.

  Scott Lynch

  Eye, Ideas, Gentleman

  Scott Lynch (2007). “Red Seas Under Red Skies”, p.181, Del Rey

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• We called the new [fourth] quark the "charmed quark" because we were pleased, and fascinated by the symmetry it brought to the subnuclear world. "Charm" also means a "a magical device to avert evil," and in 1970 it was realized that the old three quark theory ran into very serious problems. ... As if by magic the existence of the charmed quark would [solve those problems].

  Sheldon Lee Glashow

  Mean, Science, Evil

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