#prevent

If you had asked people in 1929, 'Here is what is about to happen. How much would you pay to avoid the Great Depression from occurring?' The answer is they would have paid a lot. They would have borrowed money if it could be used to prevent the Great Depression. ↗

— Austan Goolsbee

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If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin. ↗

— Katharine Butler Hathaway

#deepest #expedient #fear #following #instinct

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#behaving #beings #belief #death #doomed

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#added #contemplated #contemplation #course #enjoyment

We can prevent Europe from becoming a spiritless machine that, in the end, grinds to a halt. ↗

— Jan Peter Balkenende

#end #europe #grinds #halt #in the end

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#lacks #never #power #prevent #should

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#good #hanging #many #marriage #prevents

If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#badly #cannot #dishonest #doing #done

We incorporated new tastes and flavors into our kids' diets from a very early age, which helped to develop their palates and prevented them from becoming picky eaters. We don't buy junk food and give them options of fresh fruit, yogurt, raw almonds, or dried whole grain cereals for snack time. ↗

— Cat Cora

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