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“Would you have a strong and virile nation, keep your homes pure; would you reduce delinquency and crime, lessen the number of broken homes. It is time that civilized peoples realized that prevention is more profitable than punishment, and that the home is the incubator either of children of high character or of criminals. Home building, therefore, should be the paramount purpose of parents and of the nation.”

Should Children Character Home Purpose Strong Nations Parent Numbers Crime Building Broken Pure Criminals Punishment Civilized Profitable Prevention Paramount Delinquency Broken Homes

Author:David O. McKay

“Female friendship was one-tenth prevention and nine-tenths cleanup.”

Female Nine Prevention Female Friendship

Author:Maggie Shipstead

“...The Chinese in the 9th century AD utilized a book entitled The Thousand Golden Prescriptions, which described how rice polish could be used to cure beri~beri, as well as other nutritional approaches to the prevention and treatment of disease. It was not until twelve centuries later that the cure for beri~beri was discovered in the West, and it acknowledged to be a vitamin B-1 deficiency disease.”

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Author:Jeffrey Bland

“If manufacturers are so sure there is nothing wrong with genetically modified foods, pesticides and cloned meats, they should have no problems labeling them as such. After all, cancer will kill one in every two men and one in every three women now alive, reports Samuel Epstein, chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition. Like our ancestors, we act in ways that will bemuse future societies. The military-industrial complex lubricates the mass-agriculture system with fossil fuels. Tons of heavy metals and other hazardous, even radioactive, waste is sprayed on American agricultural soil.”

“We must walk in solidarity with those who are living with HIV/AIDS and with those at risk. As witnesses of Christ, we are called to respect the dignity of each person and to promote healthy living - physically, spiritually, morally and psychologically - through prevention and treatment”

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Author:Theodore Edgar McCarrick

“Prevention is better than cure.”

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Book:The Adages of Erasmus

Source: The Adages of Erasmus

“My central arms control objective has been to reduce substantially and ultimately to eliminate nuclear weapons and rid the world of the nuclear threat. The prevention of the spread of nuclear explosives is to additional countries is an indispensable part of our efforts to meet this objective. I intend to continue my pursuit of this goal with untiring determination and a profound sense of personal commitment.”

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Author:Ronald Reagan

“Punishment is but legalized crime. In a society built on prevention, rather than retaliation, there would be very little crime. The few exceptions will be treated medically, as of unsound mind and body.”

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Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“People aren't afraid of failure, they just don't know how to succeed. We are each responsible for our own success (or failure). Winning at what you do is no exception. To ensure a win, you must take a proactive approach. Prevention of failure is an important part of that process.”

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Author:Jeffrey Gitomer

“Diseases can rarely be eliminated through early diagnosis or good treatment, but prevention can eliminate disease.”

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Author:Denis Parsons Burkitt

“Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it.”

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Author:Bernard Levin

“Since the reduction of risk factors is the scientific basis for primary prevention, the World Health Organization promotes the development of an integrated strategy for prevention of several diseases, rather than focusing on individual ones.”

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Author:Gro Harlem Brundtland

“National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month is celebrated each May, and becomes a chance for our Nation to become more familiar with the effects of this disease, and about the preventable steps that we can take to deal with it.”

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Author:Lois Capps

“It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.”

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Author:Jane Fonda

“If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.”

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Author:Jane Fonda