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Letter "P" » prevent
«The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is to prevent harm to others.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Liberty,
Power,
Prevention
| Keywords:
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«I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have ? life itself.»
Author: Walter Anderson
| Keywords:
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«A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.»
«Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Experience
| Keywords:
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«Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.»
«Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
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«If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
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«I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.»
«A stumble may prevent a fall.»
«He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.»
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