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Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty. — William Graham Sumner

Many access roads are too dangerous for relief workers, preventing them from carrying out assessments or reaching people in need. — Jan Egeland

On balance, the use of encryption, just like the use of good locks on doors, has the net effect of preventing a lot more crime than it might assist. — Matt Blaze

Preventing radicalization that leads to violence here in America is part of our larger strategy to decisively defeat al Qaeda. — Denis McDonough

Suffering is nothing. It's all a matter of preventing those you love from suffering. — Alphonse Daudet

Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one. — John W. Vessey Jr.

Planted in apple orchards they are of benefit in preventing apple scab, — Louise Riotte

Preventing liquidation of an unbalanced market will leave you in tears. — Ben Bernanke

Cheat, defeat, repeat. — Elda M. Lopez

Preventing female infanticide is equally important in protection of women's rights. — Nita Ambani

Without love, things disperse around; love holds things tightly! It prevents them to move away and disappear on the horizons! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

True prevention is not waiting for bad things to happen, it's preventing things from happening in the first place. — Don McPherson

But pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being — Peter Singer

Would not a rational society spend more on understanding and preventing, than on preparing for, the next war? — Carl Sagan

Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century. — Elie Wiesel

It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible. — Mark Twain

Exercise is one of the best ways in preventing the rapid growth of obesity in America. — Lee Haney

The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons. — Benjamin Netanyahu

If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts. — Leon Kass

It's usually a spiritual thing that's preventing somebody from having happiness. — Sandra Bernhard

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

Preventing terrorist attacks is of the highest important, but trashing the Constitution is not the right way to do it. — Eliot Engel

Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves. — Naomi Klein

Fiber has a beneficial effect in preventing colon cancer. — David Jenkins

My face filled with the warm glow of embarrassment preventing me from smiling back so I turned and ran away. — Nicci Greene

When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void. — Piers Anthony

So we are fulfilling our task in preventing serious armament stocks in Iraq within our possibilities. — Bulent Ecevit

There is nothing preventing the enemy reaching Paris. We were fighting on our last line and it has been breached. I am helpless, I cannot intervene. — Maxime Weygand

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

Every being is in search of truth, but small fears go on preventing you. — Rajneesh

We are the only species on earth capable of preventing our own flowering. — David Whyte

Preventing the new generation from changing in any deep way is what most societies require of their educators. — George Leonard

I paint a little and keep sketchbooks because it has the effect of preventing me becoming lazy about looking. The subject could be anything. — Richard Billingham

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

If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication. — Richard Rosen

This program has been successful in detecting and preventing attacks inside the United States. — Michael Hayden

If you live your life all out today, not only is it fun, but you are preventing a midlife crisis. — Daphne Oz

We have forgotten that curing cancer starts with preventing cancer in the first place. — David Agus

I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form. — Morarji Desai

For the first time, preventing nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism is now at the top of America's nuclear agenda. — Barack Obama

There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts. — Scilla Elworthy

Prayers should be for preventing war, not fighting it. — @hg47

Solution dreams can help you overcome obstacles that are preventing you from growing into your full potential. — Pamela Cummins

To describe something as an accident is a lazy way of exempting oneself from the obligation of investigating or even preventing it in the first place. — Jo Nelson

A criminal will never forgive you for preventing them from committing the crime that is really in their heart. — Norman Mailer

What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems ... there's no law of physics preventing them. — Michio Kaku

Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves. — Barry Humphries

It turned out keeping reality bound by mathematical laws was a useful hack preventing the Devil from existing. — Scott Alexander

By preventing new conflicts, we avert the causes of radicalization and the risk of terrorist attacks in Europe, including in Germany. — Wolfgang Schauble

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up. — Abraham Lincoln

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

Preventing your heart from forgiving someone you love is actually a hell of a lot harder than simply forgiving them. — Colleen Hoover

Science and Truth are simple phenomenon of nature, but it is the known that is preventing us from mastering the unknown. — Chandrakanth Natekar

Finding out exactly what went wrong is key toward preventing future debacles. — Chuck Grassley

Retailers have an important part to play in preventing knife crime - enforcing age restrictions and displaying knives safely is crucial. — Theresa May

The answer lies in preventing failures not in looking for better ways to fix the children who are failing. — William Glasser

Our idea of happiness may be the very thing that's preventing us from being happy. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Reason! how many eyes hast thou to see evils, and how dim, nay, blind, thou art in preventing them. — Philip Sidney

A heavily armed citizenry is not about overthrowing the government; it is about preventing the government from overthrowing liberty. — Lawrence Hunter

President Obama signed a bill preventing members of Congress from profiting from insider trading. Didn't you think that was already illegal? — Jay Leno

The headmaster's tie turns into a noose again, preventing blood from getting to his face — Neal Shusterman

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. — Paul Valery

Preventing war is much better than protesting against the war. Protesting the war is too late. — Thich Nhat Hanh

The questioning is a stupid formality aimed exclusively at preventing us from speaking at the demonstration. — Alexei Navalny

I tried to think of what my father would tell me. 'Don't let any boy give you shit.' But he'd never said how we should go about preventing this. — Joyce Maynard

There are too many things around us, preventing us from thinking well! To think well, sometimes we need a heavy fog! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There is no 'grand conspiracy' preventing your from accomplishing what you need to do. — David Cottrell

One way of preventing disease is worth fifty ways of curing it. — Trevor Howard

If they are opposed to abortion, they should be for preventing unintended pregnancies. — Louise Slaughter

Government owes its birth to the necessity of preventing and repressing the injuries which the associated individuals had to fear from one another. — Guillaume-Thomas Francois Raynal

Life is an illusion which wisely prevents you from seeing yourself fully. — Bryant McGill

Tragedy takes us to the very state of consciousness which, were we to hold to it, would go far toward preventing further tragedies. — Marianne Williamson

Sometimes good is preventing us for being better.
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Here in California, we passed a law against texting while driving. But there's no law preventing you from writing a letter while driving. — Craig Ferguson

The devil may not be interested in preventing you from knowing the undone job. What he may do is to make you think it's somebody's job and not yours. — Israelmore Ayivor

To be an enduring, great company, you have to build a mechanism for preventing or solving problems that will long outlast any one individual leader. — Howard Schultz

Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean. — James Richardson

Your suspicion alone is more than enough justification for preventing time alone with your child. You — Gavin De Becker

Since 9/11, the U.S.A. Patriot Act has torn down the invisible wall that was perceived as preventing the FBI and CIA from sharing information. — Ronald Kessler

I think the American people believe in stopping and preventing terrorism pretty much at any cost. — Monica Crowley

Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war. — Raul Castro

Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists. — Maria Montessori

I was regarded as sort of cool; preventing the destruction of your school and capturing the agent responsible does great things for your social life. — Stuart Gibbs

Solving a problem is intelligence. Preventing a problem is wisdom. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Sins are like chains and locks preventing their perpetrator from roaming the vast garden of Tawheed and reaping the fruits of righteous actions. — Ibn Taymiyyah

War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it. — Max Lerner

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty. — Maimonides

It was, however, time to accept fear for what it was, an emotion that was preventing them from being who they needed to be. — Stephen Reid Andrews

Is neither a cure for AIDS nor a way of preventing infection with HIV. — John Mills

One of those people with invisible thorns, preventing others from getting too close. — Sarah Addison Allen

Preventing the conflicts of tomorrow means changing the mind-set of youth today. — Graca Machel

The injury which may possibly be done by defeating a few good laws, will be amply compensated by the advantage of preventing a number of bad ones. — Alexander Hamilton

(not a shadow thereof, but a real degree, by the preventing grace of God,) — John Wesley

Judging is preventing us from understanding a new truth. Free yourself from the rules of old judgments and create the space for new understanding. — Steve Maraboli

Step one to preventing PPD is to find time to sleep after giving birth, no matter how euphoric you feel. — Ina May Gaskin

The long-term solution in preventing another famine in Somalia is to promote self-reliance. — Hawa Abdi

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality. — Joyce Carol Oates

Enoki mushrooms, a tasty variety commonly sold in grocery stores, were one of the first mushrooms studied for preventing cancer. — Paul Stamets

I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship. — Bill Gates