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“Kafka would surely have been impressed by the twin ambitions of the modern empathetic state: the need to set up hyper-regulatory bodies preventing you from doing anything yourself, while simultaneously endowing lavish pseudo-agencies to hand out leaflets listing a 1-800 number you can dial to order more leaflets.”

Needs Has Beens States Body Hands Order Numbers Modern Ambition Agency Twins Impressed Preventing Hyper Pseudo Empathetic

Author:Mark Steyn

“Love makes the world go 'round, it's true, but lust stops the world in its tracks; love renders bearable the passage of time, lust causes time to stand still, lust kills time, which is not to say that it wastes it or whiles it aimlessly away but rather that it annihilates it, cancels it, extirpates it from continuum; preventing, while lasts, any lapse into the tense and shabby woes of temporal society, lust is the thousand-pound odometer needle on the dashboard of the absolute.”

World Stills Lasts Causes Thousand Waste Absolutes Rounds Track Lust Pounds Passages Woe Tense Needles Preventing Passage Of Time Bearable Continuum Lapses Shabby Dashboards

Author:Tom Robbins

“God decreed to save and damn certain particular persons. This decree has its foundation in the foreknowledge of God, by which he knew from all eternity those individuals who would, through his preventing [going before] grace, believe, and, through his subsequent grace would persevere by which foreknowledge, he likewise knew those who would not believe and persevere.”

Believe Persons God Certain Individual Religious Knowing Grace Particular Eternity Foundation Damn Theologian Persevere Foresight Preventing Decree Foreseeing

Author:Jacobus Arminius

“The law has been perverted, and the powers of the state have become perverted along with it. The law has not only been turned from its proper function, but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose. The law has become a tool for every kind of greed. Instead of preventing crime, the law itself is guilty of the abuses it is supposed to punish. If this is true, it is a serious matter, and moral duty requires me to call the attention of my fellow-citizens to it.”

Ifs Kind Has Beens Made Matter States Law Political Purpose Politics Attention Moral Crime Serious Duty Citizens Tools Abuse Function Fellows Greed Contrary Guilty Preventing Moral Duty

Author:Frederic Bastiat

“I think, sometimes, that I'm going nuts, and that perhaps there is something good about blocking clean water for those who have none, making sure that illiterate children remain so, and preventing the resuscitation of the public health sector in the country most in need of it. Lunacy is what it is.”

Thinking Needs Children Country Sometimes Water Clean Block Nuts Preventing Public Health Illiterate Clean Water Lunacy Resuscitation

Author:Paul Farmer

“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.”

Long Problem Individual Company Leader Endure Mechanism Problem Solving Preventing Great Company

Book:Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time

Source: Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time

“Suffering is nothing. It's all a matter of preventing those you love from suffering.”

Matter Suffering Preventing Those You Love

Author:Alphonse Daudet

“Those who refuse to look at or give expression to the dark side of life are in denial-fear preventing passage through the door of growth, truth and, ultimately, wisdom.”

Giving Looks Sides Growth Dark Doors Expression Refuse Denial Passages Dark Side Preventing

Author:Laurence Overmire

“Your body, the only one you will ever have, is the foundation of your life. And it’s either an anchor limiting your freedom and potential or a source of radiant energy, vitality and joy, elevating your life and the lives of those around you. It’s your choice… will yours be a source of strength, from which you will impact the world, or an obstacle, preventing you from your dreams and desires? … As my friend, NFL Hall of Fame quarterback John Elway is fond of saying,'If you’re going to bother setting a goal, aim high!'… My advice to you, aim high; aim for strength.”

“People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach the technology of writing is preventing thought.”

People Thinking Writing Doe Together Order Teach Technology Educational Sentences Strings Preventing Educational System

Author:Richard Mitchell

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

People Needs Dangerous Workers Access Relief Reaching Preventing Assessment

Author:Jan Egeland

“A moment of patience in a moment of anger prevents a thousand moments of regret.”

Moments Regret Thousand Anger Patience Islamic Be Patient Wise Man Once Said Preventing Anger Management Islamic Wisdom Caliphs

Author:Ali ibn Abi Talib

“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.”

Knows Men Ends Evil Greater Century Tragedy Sake Commit Compelled Twentieth Century Preventing Avert

Author:Emil Fackenheim

“If you are interested in preventing animal suffering, the first thing you should give up is eggs and milk, because the animals who produce those foods lead the most unhappy lives. You would do better to eat meat and stop eating eggs and dairy products.”

Ifs Giving Should Firsts Suffering Animal Produce Products Giving Up Eating Unhappy Meat Eggs Vegan Happy Life Milk Preventing Dairy Animal Suffering Unhappy Life Dairy Products

Author:Cesar Chavez

“You are quite correct in saying that I banned the export of monkeys on a humanitarian basis and not because the number was lessening... I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form.”

Life Believe Form Belief I Believe Numbers Bases I Believe In Humanitarian Cruelty Monkeys Preventing Banned

Author:Morarji Desai

“But, historians, and even common sense, may inform us, that, however specious these ideas of perfect equality may seem, they are really, at bottom, impracticable; and were they not so, would be extremely pernicious to human society. Render possessions ever so equal, men's different degrees of art, care, and industry will immediately break that equality. Or if you check these virtues, you reduce society to the most extreme indigence; and instead of preventing want and beggary in a few, render it unavoidable to the whole community.”

Source: Essays and Treatises on Philosophical Subjects

“The challenge of preventing any further proliferation of nuclear weapons is just such a trial in the quest for world peace, one that cannot be achieved if we are defeated by a sense of helplessness. The crucial element is to ensure that any struggle against evil is rooted firmly in a consciousness of the unity of the human family, something only gained through the mastery of our own inner contradictions.”

“To be able to achieve the laudable goals (of preventing and treating HIV/AIDS), especially for us in sub-Saharan Africa, there is the need for us to invest in improving our weak health systems. The inadequate number of healthcare facilities in many of our countries are major issues of concern.”

Needs Country Able Goal Numbers Issues Achieve Majors Concern Weak Aids Our Country Healthcare Improving Facility Hiv Inadequate Preventing Hiv Aids Health System Sub Saharan Africa

Author:John Dramani Mahama

“The act of writing bears something in common with the act of love. The writer, at his most productive moments, just flows. He gives of that which is uniquely himself. He makes himself naked, recording his nakedness in the written word. Herein lies some of the terror which frequently freezes a writer, preventing him from producing. Herein, too, lies some of the courage that must be entailed in letting others learn how one has experienced or is experiencing the world.”

World Love Giving Writing Moments Lying Common Written Bears Flow Experience Terror Naked Productive Freeze Preventing Written Word Acts Of Love Experiencing The World

Author:Sidney Jourard

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

Humans War Fighting Ability Strength Wise Words Civilization Producers Preventing Screenwriters

Author:Gene Roddenberry

“Short of preventing harm to the child, the standard of 'best interest of the child' is insufficient to serve as a compelling state interest overruling a parent's fundamental rights.... To suggest otherwise would be the logical equivalent to asserting that the state has the authority to break up stable families and redistribute its infant population to provide each child with the 'best family.' It is not within the province of the state to make significant decisions concerning the custody of children merely because it could make a 'better' decision.”

“Contraceptives have a proven track record of enhancing the health of women and children, preventing unintended pregnancy, and reducing the need for abortion.”

Needs Children Records Track Abortion Pregnancy Proven Reducing Preventing Track Record Contraceptives

Author:Louise Slaughter

“Football is being used as a language in that project...The vital message being communicated to the boys and young men is about safe sex, the use of condoms and preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS.”

Men Use Young Used Language Sex Boys Football Safe Projects Messages Spread Aids Young Man Hiv Preventing Condom Hiv Aids

Author:Roger Moore

“In the 1990s, we introduced Boston's community policing strategy. We reversed the tide of violent crime that threatened our city, and we established a national model for preventing and fighting crime.”

Fighting Community Cities Crime Models Strategy Violent Tides Threatened Boston Preventing Tidy Violent Crimes Fighting Crime

Author:Thomas Menino

“Our immediate striving must be aimed at preventing what, in the present situation, is the greatest threat to the very survival of mankind, the nuclear threat.”

Situation Mankind Survival Threat Strive Nuclear Preventing Present Situation

Author:Alva Myrdal

“Unless some effective world supergovernment for the purpose of preventing war can be set up ... the prospects for peace and human progress are dark ....If .... it is found possible to build a world organization of irresistible force and inviolable authority for the purpose of securing peace, there are no limits to the blessings which all men enjoy and share.”

“From this vision of the role of the United Nations in the next century flow three key priorities for the future: eradicating poverty, preventing conflict and promoting democracy.”

Three Next Nations United Vision Poverty Roles Democracy Century Keys Conflict Flow Priorities United Nations Promoting Preventing Unesco

Author:Kofi Annan

“Then just live in coexistence. Live the way all poor husbands are living. Show to the world that your wife is so surrendered to you...who is preventing? You just have to tell a lie and there is no mess - and surrender to the powerful and beautiful woman. But remember, the moment a man surrenders to a woman he loses dignity in her eyes. She starts looking here and there for someone who has the guts not to surrender.”

“If the spirit of their intercourse were still the same after their coming together as it had been when they were living apart,' Aristotle writes, their association can't really be considered a polis, or political community. 'A polis is not an association for residence on a common site, or for the sake of preventing mutual injustice and easing exchange.' While these conditions are necessary to a polis, they are not sufficient. 'The end and purpose of a polis is the good life, and the institutions of social life are means to that end.”

“During my tenure at the Endowment, I often found that those who did us the most damage did so under the justification of helping us by 'preventing worse language.' In the military it would be called friendly fire. One ends up just as dead.”

Ends Helping Would Be Found Language Fire Military Damage Friendly Justification Preventing Endowment Tenure

Book:Leaving Town Alive: Confessions of an Arts Warrior

Source: Leaving Town Alive: Confessions of an Arts Warrior

“Have you ever wondered, perhaps, why opinions which the majority of people quite naturally hold are, if anyone dares express them publicly, denounced as 'controversial, 'extremist', 'explosive', 'disgraceful', and overwhelmed with a violence and venom quite unknown to debate on mere political issues? It is because the whole power of the aggressor depends upon preventing people from seeing what is happening and from saying what they see.”

“Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean.”

People Writing Mean Reading Half Expected Other Half Preventing

Author:James Richardson

“We need to get the government out of the way. Inflation hits the middle class and the poor the most. Those are the people who are losing it. We don't have enough competition. There's a doctor monopoly out there. We need alternative health care freely available to the people. They ought to be able to make their own choices and not controlled by the FDA preventing them to use some of the medications.”

“A [desire] to abolish slavery prevails in North America, many of the Pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty, and [Virginia legislators] have petitioned the King for permission to make a law for preventing the importation of more [slaves] into that colony. This request, however, will probably not be granted, as their former laws of that kind have always been repealed.”

Kind America Law Desire Liberty Kings Slavery Slave Former Granted Permission Request Virginia Preventing Abolish Colony Legislators North America Importation

Author:Benjamin Franklin

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

Thinking President Members Bills Congress Illegal President Obama Trading Preventing Insiders Insider Trading

Author:Jay Leno

“Cadavers and spirits are human refuse, and they are absurdly difficult to dispose of properly. When someone dies, a small gang of specialists is required to remove and inter the body in such a way that it can always be located precisely at any time while preventing it from ever appearing again.”

Way Humans Body Spirit Dies Difficult Refuse Remove Gang Appearing Preventing Specialists Cadavers When Someone Dies

Author:Michael Cisco

“Every belief that you hold manifests itself in some manner by either causing you to take some form of action or by preventing you from taking action. If you don't believe something is possible, you won't even attempt it.”

Ifs Believe Action Form Belief Don't Believe Taking Action Preventing

Book:Zen and the Art of Happiness

Source: Zen and the Art of Happiness

“I have seen business moguls achieve their ultimate goals but still live in frustration, worry, and fear. What's preventing these successful people for being happy? The answer is they have focused only on achievement and not fulfillment. Extraordinary accomplishment does not guarantee extraordinary joy, happiness, love, and a sense of meaning. These two skill sets feed off each other, and make me believe that success without fulfillment is failure.”

“I saw a study the other day showing that some atypical anti-psychotic was at least as good as mood stabilizers in preventing suicide. It's a very good thing to decrease suicide but we should care at least a little if I'm not killing myself because I feel better or if I just can't remember where I put the damn gun.”

Ifs Feels Should Littles Care Remember Study Saws Gun Suicide Good Things Killing Very Good Mood Damn Feel Better Preventing Decrease Psychotic Killing Myself

Author:Mark Vonnegut

“There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.”

Way Country Would Be Political Certain Nations Rooms Possibility Immigration Ruins Permit Continuing Nationality Preventing American Citizens Americanism

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“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.”

“Spending our tax dollars on actually preventing crimes, instead of pursuing death sentences after they've already been committed, will assure us we will have fewer victims.”

Crime Taxes Victim Dollars Committed Sentences Spending Fewer Law Enforcement Preventing Death Sentence Tax Dollars

Author:Gil Garcetti

“There is no 'grand conspiracy' preventing your from accomplishing what you need to do.”

Needs Leadership Morning Conspiracy Monday Preventing Monday Morning

Author:David Cottrell

“All that this world needs is a good cleansing of the heart of all the inhibitions of the past. And laughter and tears can do both. Tears will take out all the agony that is hidden inside you and laughter will take all that is preventing your ecstasy. Once you have learned the art you will be immensely surprised.”

World Needs Heart Art Past Can Do This World Tears Laughter Ecstasy Agony Preventing Cleansing Inhibitions

Author:Rajneesh

“Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.”

Way Care Heaven Prayer Half Heard Praying Mets Angel Praise Take Care Grants Vow Preventing

Book:The Poetical Works of John Dryden

Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden

“One of the weapons Marvel used in its climb to comic-book dominance was a willingness to invent new characters at a dizzying speed. There are so many Marvel universes, indeed, that some superheroes do not even exist in one another's worlds, preventing gridlock.”

World Book Character Used Universe Weapons Speed Comic Climbs Willingness Comic Book Superhero Preventing Dominance Gridlock

Book:Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition

Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition

“Perfectionism is a twenty-ton shield that we lug around thinking it will protect us when, in fact, it's the thing that's really preventing us from taking flight.”

Thinking Facts Protect Twenties Flight Shields Perfectionism Preventing

Author:Brené Brown

“The murder of a dozen innocent people is unquestionably a human tragedy. But that is no excuse for reacting blindly by preventing hundreds of thousands of other people from defending themselves against meeting the same fate.”

People Humans Fate Tragedy Murder Meetings Excuse Innocent Dozen Preventing No Excuses Reacting

Author:Thomas Sowell

“A heavily armed citizenry is not about overthrowing the government; it is about preventing the government from overthrowing liberty.”

Government Liberty Preventing Citizenry

Author:Lawrence Hunter

“I know deep hurt. But I also know deep hope. Sometimes God's power is shown as much in preventing things as it is in making them happen. We may never know why. But we can always know and trust the Who.”

Knows May Sometimes Happens Hurt Trust Deep Trust In God Preventing Hope And Faith

Author:Lysa TerKeurst

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