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"The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all." »Kingman Brewster, Jr.
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"Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"Just definitions either prevent or put an end to a dispute." »Nathaniel Emmons
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"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war." »Albert Einstein
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"A stumble may prevent a fall." »English Proverb
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"We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them." »Dora Russell
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"You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale." »Brock Chisholm
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"It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them." »Benjamin Franklin
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"He who can suppress a moment's anger may prevent a day of sorrow." »Tryon Edwards
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"Intellectuals solve problems geniuses prevent them." »Albert Einstein
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"No great leader in history fought to prevent change." »John Maxwell, 21 Indispensible Qualities of a Leader
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"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." »Frank Herbert
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"Muddy waters should never prevent proper navigation of the ship or the spirit.
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"Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed." »Epicurus
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"I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came." »Jefferson Davis
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"The factory of the future will have two employees a man and a dog. The man's job will be to feed the dog. The dog's job will be to prevent the man from touching any of the automated equipment." »Warren Bennis
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"I think we, sometimes, try to fill a void with so many other things that we make the wound deeper & prevent it from ever healing properly." »Ingrid Weir
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"So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination." »John Haldane
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"Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent." »Johnson
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"But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way." »Jane Austen
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"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." »Thomas Jefferson
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"We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white." »Eric Hoffer
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"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. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant." »John Stuart Mill
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"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. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant." »John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty", 1859
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"We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and at the 11th hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens." »Brooks Atkinson
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"Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it." »Anne Elizabeth O'Hare McCormick
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"I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French." »Charles De Gaulle
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"Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger." »Francis Quarles
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"Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger." »Francis Quarles
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"That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience or to prevent the people of the United states who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms..." »Samuel Adams
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