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Preventive Quotes (page 11)

Joseph Joubert quote: "The great inconvenience of new books is that they prevent us..."
The great inconvenience of new books is that they prevent us from reading old books. Joseph Joubert
Thomas Fuller quote: "A stumble may prevent a fall."
A stumble may prevent a fall. Thomas Fuller
Isaac Asimov quote: "Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is..."
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right. Isaac Asimov
He looked down at the glass again. ‘I care that these things happen, that we poison ourselves and our progeny, that we knowingly destroy our future, but I do not believe that there is anything - and I repeat, anything - that can be done to prevent it. We are a nation of egoists. It is our glory, but it will be our destruction, for none of us can be made to concern ourselves about something as abstract as “the common good”. The best of us can rise to feeling concern for our families, but as a... Donna Leon
Jodi Picoult quote: "The best way to prevent a heartache was to cushion the coming..."
The best way to prevent a heartache was to cushion the coming blow. Jodi Picoult
And Anne could have said much, and did long to say a little in defence of her friend's not very dissimilar claims to theirs, but her sense of personal respect to her father prevented her. She made no reply. She left it to himself to recollect, that Mrs Smith was not the only widow in Bath between thirty and forty, with little to live on, and no surname of dignity. Jane Austen
It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires, and who can doubt that the interest we have in admitting or denying the reality of the Judgement to come determines the faith of most men in accordance with their hopes and fears. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Charles Sanders Peirce quote: "There is a kink in my damned brain that prevents me from..."
There is a kink in my damned brain that prevents me from thinking as other people think. Charles Sanders Peirce
They were so absorbed in their plotting that they did not hear Boule de Suif return. But the Comte's whispered 'shh!' made them all look up. There she was. A sudden silence fell, and at first a feeling of embarrassment prevented them from speaking to her. At last, however, the Comtesse, more of an adept than the rest in social duplicity, asked her: 'Did you enjoy the christening? Guy de Maupassant
I cannot sleep in your presence. In your absence, tears prevent meyou watch me my belovedon each sleepiness night and. Only you see the difference Rumi
To be angry once in a while is really good fun, because it makes others so miserable. But to be angry morning, noon and night, as I am, grows monotonous and prevents my gaining any other pleasure in life. L. Frank Baum
Most problems of teaching are not problems of growth but helping cultivate growth. As far as I know, and this is only from personal experience in teaching, I think about ninety percent of the problem in teaching, or maybe ninety-eight percent, is just to help the students get interested. Or what it usually amounts to is to not prevent them from being interested. Typically they come in interested, and the process of education is a way of driving that defect out of their minds. But if... Noam Chomsky
War, it will be seen, is now a purely internal affair. In the past, the ruling groups of all countries, although they might recognize their common interest and therefore limit the destructiveness of war, did fight against one another, and the victor always plundered the vanquished. In our own day they are not fighting against one another at all. The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to... George Orwell
Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do. Stephen Sondheim
I have read a great deal of economic theory for over 50 years now, but have found only one economic "law" to which I can find NO exceptions: Where the State prevents a free market, by banning any form of goods or services, consumer demand will create a black market for those goods or services, at vastly higher prices. Can YOU think of a single exception to this law? Robert Anton Wilson

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