#prevent

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

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Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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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

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

— Aldous Huxley

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We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

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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

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

— Jan Peter Balkenende

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We're told another large-scale terrorist attack is inevitable by those people who have committed so many resources to preventing it. They likely know what they're talking about. ↗

— Greg Bear

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It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning. ↗

— Claude Bernard

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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