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I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me.
by Conrad Veidt (Actor, German , born in 1893) keywords: accidental, incomplete, may, naturally, perhaps, picture, possibility, prevent, someone, superficial, untrue, wish , write 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.
by Vernor Vinge (Writer, American , born in 1944) keywords: above, argued, cannot, coming, competitiveness, consequence, humans, inevitable, inherent, natural, possibilities, prevent, singularity , technology We cannot lightly allow the perpetrator of a serious crime to go free simply because that person believed his actions were reasonable and necessary to prevent some perceived harm.
by Sol Wachtler (Judge , American) keywords: actions, allow, because, believed, cannot, crime, free, go, harm, his, lightly, necessary, perceived, perpetrator, person, prevent, reasonable, serious, simply, some , were Removing substantial fuel loads from our forests helps prevent catastrophic fire and better protects species, watersheds and neighboring communities that call them home.
by Greg Walden (Politician, American , born in 1957) keywords: better, call, catastrophic, communities, fire, forests, fuel, helps, home, loads, neighboring, our, prevent, protects, removing, species, substantial , them 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.
by John Walters (Musician, British , born in 1938) keywords: dramatically, drugs, go, kids, know, later, life, likelihood, prevent, problems, reduce, teenage, their, trying, will , years Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
by George Washington (President, American , born in 1732) keywords: after, dislodge, easier, enemy, experience, got, much, possession, posting, prevent, teaches, than, them, themselves , us It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq.
by Caspar Weinberger (Public Servant, American , born in 1917) keywords: also, america, being, country, demonstrate, did, effect, friend, gulf, iraq, kuwait, major, make, mideast, more, muslim, overrun, prevent, risks, small, stolen, take, than, took, want, war , willing 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.
by Robert Welchkeywords: become, bosses, central, class, entirely, exactly, fathers, founding, government, most, much, our, power, prevent, promote, seen, supported, too, turn, until, wanted , which There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.
by Jessamyn West (Author, American , born in 1902) keywords: aged, alive, barriers, between, communication, elders, fact, first, forgetfulness, ignorance, longer, middle, middle-aged, often, prevent, second, still, their, themselves, two, young , youthful There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
by Elie Wiesel (Novelist, American , born in 1928) keywords: fail, injustice, may, must, never, powerless, prevent, protest, time , times 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.
by Charles E. Wilson (Businessman, American , born in 1886) keywords: concentration, doing, forming, good, keep, person, place, plan, prevent, should, stupid, thing, time , wrong Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.
by Ludwig Wittgenstein (Philosopher, Austrian , born in 1889) keywords: attitude, augustine, being, celebrated, ceremony, church, culture, even, every, everyone, going, happen, knows, marriages, night, our, present, prevent, religion, religious, sex, st , why So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty.
by James Wolfensohn (Businessman, Australian , born in 1933) keywords: best, conflict, dealing, first, need, poverty, prevent, preventing, question, thing , way We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
by Virginia Woolf (Author, British , born in 1970) keywords: best, creating, finding, following, help, methods, new, prevent, repeating, war, words , your You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.
by Chuck Yeager (Aviator, American , born in 1923) keywords: concentrate, done, getting, great, job, necessary, prevent, results, risk, risks , too Nonetheless, Article 5 makes clear that if an Iraqi civilian who is not a member of the armed forces, has engaged in attacks on Coalition forces, the Geneva Convention permits the use of more coercive interrogation approaches to prevent future attacks.
by John Yoo (Educator, American , born in 1967) keywords: approaches, armed, article, attacks, civilian, clear, coalition, coercive, convention, engaged, forces, future, geneva, interrogation, iraqi, makes, member, more, nonetheless, permits, prevent , use Once the attacks occur, as we learned on Sept. 11, it is too late. It makes little sense to deprive ourselves of an important, and legal, means to detect and prevent terrorist attacks while we are still in the middle of a fight to the death with al Qaeda.
by John Yoo (Educator, American , born in 1967) keywords: al, attacks, death, deprive, detect, fight, important, late, learned, legal, little, makes, means, middle, occur, once, ourselves, prevent, qaeda, sense, sept, still, terrorist, too , while
