#prevent

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#hearing #me #myself #prevents #static

We sensible often resist intrusive love and its chaos practically, employing measures to prevent the former for fear of the latter. But for all our wit and work, that desperation for control also prevents the pure, transcendental freedom more often delivered by both. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#control #desperation #freedom #love #lover

I believe we should use all means necessary to prevent the acquisition or fabrication of nuclear weapons by countries or groups hostile to the U. S. We should act in concert with our allies who are similarly working to protect their countries. ↗

— Sandy Adams

#act #allies #believe #concert #countries

I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart. ↗

— Elizabeth Blackwell

#fill #heart #i #life #must

And we think that our citizens and yours would be very angry if they thought that we hadn't taken every possible step for prevention and then for joint action in the likelihood of those who threaten our lives and our well- being, taking action at the same time. ↗

— David Blunkett

#angry #being #citizens #every #hadn

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#attraction #better #concern #forced #gaining

Given that you'll never be able to prevent copying, the question is, what can you do to minimize it? What can you do to make consumers happy enough with legitimate use of the system that they'll be willing to pay for it? ↗

— Edward Felten

#consumers #copying #enough #given #happy

The severity of the laws prevents their execution. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#laws #prevents #severity #their

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form. ↗

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

#beauty #coercion #even #form #freedom

In the Atlantean period there were many energies being used and information and knowledge being used which were, for particular reasons of safety, withdrawn, shall we say, to prevent complete catastrophe, to prevent total destruction of your planet. ↗

— David Icke

#being used #catastrophe #complete #destruction #energies