#prevent

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#help #language #only #poetry #prevent

I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#argued #cannot #coming #competitiveness #consequence

And here a most heinous charge is made, that the nation has been burdened with unnecessary expenses for the sole purpose of preventing the discharge of our debts and the abolition of taxes. ↗

— Robert Walpole

#been #burdened #charge #debts #discharge

We know that if we can prevent kids from trying drugs in their teenage years, we dramatically reduce the likelihood that they will go on to have problems later in life. ↗

— John Walters

#go #kids #know #later #life

I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#desperately #handing #i #me #out

We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it has become entirely too much a government of and for one class, which is exactly what our Founding Fathers wanted most to prevent. ↗

— Robert Welch

#bosses #central #central government #class #entirely

No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#doing #forming #good #good plan #keep

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#conscience #coward #enough #faults #justice

You have to have as many defences in place as you possibly can. But even then of course - and it's important to stress this - you cannot guarantee being able to prevent every attack or every kind of attack. ↗

— William Hague

#attack #being #cannot #course #even

Before the operation on my left hand I wasn't able to stretch my fingers open all the way. I've never had very big hands, but I could do the splits with them. Eventually I couldn't any more. I had a twisted tendon in my little finger that prevented me from being able to stretch. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#any #before #being #big #could