Preventing Quotes

• El que cura una enfermedad puede ser el más hábil, pero el que la previene es el médico más seguro.

  Thomas Fuller

  Fitness, Salud, Medicina

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• Más vale prevenir que curar.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Vida, 4 th Of July, Seguridad

  sir John Barnard, Benjamin Franklin (1848). "Regalo para un aprendiz [por sir J. Barnard]. Al que se añade, Franklin's Way to wealth. [Ed.] por un ciudadano de Londres [T. Tegg]", p.288

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• Only the power of unbounded love practiced in regard to all human beings can defeat the forces of interhuman strife, and can prevent the pending extermination of man by man on this planet. Without love, no armament, no war, no diplomatic machinations, no coercive police force, no school education, no economic or political measures, not even hydrogen bombs can prevent the pending catastrophe.

  Pitirim Sorokin

  Love, Education, War

  Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin (2002). “The Ways and Power of Love: Types, Factors, and Techniques of Moral Transformation”, p.12, Templeton Foundation Press

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• The proper role of government is exactly what John Stuart Mill said in the middle of the 19th century in "On Liberty." The proper role of government is to prevent other people from harming an individual. Government, he said, never has any right to interfere with an individual for that individual's own good.

  Milton Friedman

  Gobierno, Personas, Política

  "Friedman y Szasz sobre la libertad y las drogas". Entrevista con Randy Paige en "America's Drug Forum", www.druglibrary.org. 1991.

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• Un momento de paciencia en un momento de ira evita mil momentos de arrepentimiento.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Paciencia, arrepentimiento, ira

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• If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them.

  Benjamin Rush

  Bible, Christian, Education

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• The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Strength, War, Fighting

  "Earth: Final Conflict". Tv series. Season 3, Episode 14: "Scorched Earth", February 07, 2000.

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• The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance, much less advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity; but ... to prevent any national ecclesiastical establishment which should give to a hierarchy the exclusive patronage of the national government.

  Historia de Joseph

  Real, Government, Giving

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• Women need to become literary "criminals," break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality of their lives.

  Kathy Acker

  Women, Writing, Reality

  "Bodies of Work". Book by Kathy Acker, 1996.

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• ¿Son las crisis psiquiátricas tan abrumadoras para la mente que inhiben la presencia de la ética? ¿Es la depresión en el fondo un fenómeno amoral, su concentración en el yo impide que cualquier otro cuente realmente? Tal vez. A veces. A veces, incluso cuando somos dos, en realidad sólo somos uno; no podemos sentir nada más que nuestros propios huesos, nuestras propias respiraciones difíciles.

  Lauren Slater

  Depresión, Yo, Dos

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• Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

  Progress, Action, Welfare

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• Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable. The obstacles preventing the realization of both these extreme states are of the same nature: they derive from our human condition which is opposed to everything infinite.

  Primo Levi

  Later In Life, Perfect, Joy

  Primo Levi (1996). “Survival In Auschwitz”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• We need new medical approaches to preventing and/or curing disease. We need new scientific approaches to generating, storing, and being more efficient with energy. Maybe we need more space exploration. Maybe we need more undersea exploration.

  Fred Wilson

  Space, Disease, Energy

  "Can the Crowd Be More Patient" by Fred Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2012.

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• Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.

  Naomi Klein

  Way, Violence, Interest

  "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism". Book by Naomi Klein, 2007.

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• ...There's a lot of money in the Western diet. The more you process any food, the more profitable it becomes. The healthcare industry makes more money treating chronic diseases (which account for three quarters of the $2 trillion plus we spend each year on health care in this country) than preventing them.

  Michael Pollan

  Country, Years, Three

  Michael Pollan (2009). “Food Rules: An Eater's Manual”, p.11, Penguin

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• We got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel. So I've told people that if you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from have the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon.

  George W. Bush

  War, Israel, Iran

  "Sen. Lieberman Backs U.S. Action Against Iran". Interview with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. November 2, 2007.

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• La paz es el deseo de los franceses, de Italia, de España, de Alemania y de todo el mundo, y Gran Bretaña la única causa de impedir su realización, y esto no por ningún punto de honor o incluso de interés, sino simplemente para que no haya un ejemplo en el mundo moderno de una gran República poderosa.

  Charles James Fox

  Powerful, Accomplishment, Wish

  Charles James Fox (1970). “Memorials and correspondence”

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• La máxima cardinal es que cualquier ayuda a un banco malo actual es el modo más seguro de impedir el establecimiento de un banco bueno en el futuro.

  Walter Bagehot

  Investing, Aids, Cardinals

  Walter Bagehot (2007). “Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market”, p.106, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There is, moreover, very little sense in preventing young people from giving expression to their ideas on the pretext that they have less experience than have older persons. There are many who may live a thousand years without encountering experience of any value. It could only be in a society of persons equally gifted that such an idea could have any meaning.

  Otto Weininger

  Expression, Years, Ideas

  Otto Weininger (1906). “Sex & Character”, p.121, Рипол Классик

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• Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.

  André Gide

  Clever, Men, Able

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• We need a new kind of politics. Not the politics of governance, but the politics of resistance. The politics of opposition. The politics of joining hands across the world and preventing certain destruction.

  Arundhati Roy

  Joining Hands, Needs, World

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The Algebra of Infinite Justice”, p.215, Penguin Books India

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• I work closely with a number of charities from food pantries to drug rehabilitation to natural disaster relief to preventing sexual exploitation of young girls. It is one of the most rewarding things I do.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Girl, Numbers, Drug

  "Exclusive: Beyoncé Discusses New H&M Campaign". Interview with Lisa Dougan, www.elle.com. April 15, 2013.

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• The Framers of the First Amendment were not concerned with preventing government from abridging their freedom to speak about crops and cockfighting, or with protecting the expressive activity of topless dancers, which of late has found some shelter under the First Amendment. Rather, the Framers cherished unabridged freedom of political communication.

  George Will

  Communication, Government, Dancer

  George F. Will (2003). “With a Happy Eye, But...: America and the World, 1997--2002”, p.278, Simon and Schuster

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• Evitar que el calentamiento global se convierta en una catástrofe planetaria puede requerir algo aún más drástico que las energías renovables, el diseño urbano supereficiente y los impuestos globales sobre el carbono.

  Jamais Cascio

  Diseño, Energía, Mayo

  Jamais Cascio "Hackear la Tierra", Lulu.com

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• Cuando se trata de impedir que Irán obtenga un arma nuclear, no descartaré ninguna opción. ... Eso incluye todos los elementos del poder estadounidense: un esfuerzo político dirigido a aislar a Irán, un esfuerzo diplomático para sostener nuestra coalición y garantizar que se supervise el programa iraní, un esfuerzo económico que imponga sanciones paralizantes y, sí, un esfuerzo militar para estar preparados para cualquier contingencia.

  Barack Obama

  Militar, Irán, Política

  "Debate: Ataque a Irán, AIPAC, Israel-Palestina y Obama con Rashid Khalidi y Jonathan Tobin", www.democracynow.org. 5 de marzo de 2012.

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