#prevention

It is not certain whether the effects of totalitarianism upon verse need be so deadly as its effects on prose. There is a whole series of converging reasons why it is somewhat easier for a poet than a prose writer to feel at home in an authoritarian society.[...]what the poet is saying- that is, what his poem "means" if translated into prose- is relatively unimportant, even to himself. The thought contained in a poem is always simple, and is no more the primary purpose of the poem than the anecdote is the primary purpose of the picture. A poem is an arrangement of sounds and associations, as a painting is an arrangement of brushmarks. For short snatches, indeed, as in the refrain of a song, poetry can even dispense with meaning altogether. ↗

— George Orwell

#literature #orwell #poet #poetry #prose

Money spent on carbon cuts is money we can't use for effective investments in food aid, micronutrients, HIV/AIDS prevention, health and education infrastructure, and clean water and sanitation. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#aids #carbon #clean #clean water #cuts

Not only is yoga excellent for flexibility, but it is also a great tool for longevity and injury prevention, as it allows for internal body awareness. ↗

— Kyle Shewfelt

#also #awareness #body #excellent #flexibility

We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination. ↗

— Olympia Snowe

#basis #breathtaking #constitute #discrimination #disease

Neither of us asked to be born descendants, yet I’d be rewarded with his death, and we couldn’t prevent that. No one could. (Eric) ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#choice #death #destiny #fate #fiction

All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#either #inherent #means #pain #pleasure

It's clear that prevention will never be sufficient. That's why we need a vaccine that will be safe. ↗

— Luc Montagnier

#need #never #prevention #safe #sufficient

The Iraq war took priority over domestic disaster prevention. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#domestic #iraq #iraq war #over #prevention

There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism. ↗

— John Ashcroft

#prevention #priority #terrorism #than

From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines. ↗