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True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness. ↗

— Andre Gide

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But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid. ↗

— Stephen Hopkins

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Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want. ↗

— Doug Coupland

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A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished scheme for the benefit of the human race. ↗

— James Payn

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Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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A controlled carbohydrate lifestyle really prevents risk factors for heart disease. ↗

— Robert Atkins

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The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

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Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

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