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It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
Benjamin Franklin
Easier
Bad
Bad Habits
Prevent
Habits
Than
Break
Them
My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.
Stephen Hawking
You
People
Regret
Advice
Other
Would
Would-Be
Spirit
Prevent
Physically
Disability
Disabled
Concentrate
Well
Doing
Interferes
Your
Things
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
Elie Wiesel
Time
Injustice
Must
Prevent
Never
Fail
Powerless
Protest
Times
May
The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.
Wayne Dyer
Life
You
Ego
Illusion
Backwards
Become
Living
Way
Only
Prevent
Self
True
Idea
Knowing
Identity
True Self
False
Very
Influential
Your
Letting
Believing
Living Life
The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
Samuel Adams
Constitution
People
Own
States
Citizens
Prevent
Shall
Never
Arms
Who
Peaceable
United
United States
Keeping
It's very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Art
Creative
Problems
Focus
Resting
Important
Chronic
Our
Minds
Worrying
Relaxing
Solutions
Find
Only
Prevent
Through
Develop
Clear
Tension
Does
Very
Us
Help
Many
Illnesses
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.
George Washington
Experience
Enemy
Easier
Possession
Posting
Prevent
Got
Than
After
Them
Themselves
Us
Much
Teaches
My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.
Jesus Christ
Fight
World
Jews
Would
Kingdom
Prevent
Another
Arrest
Were
Place
Now
Servants
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Eleanor Roosevelt
Will
Our
Rather
Prevent
Tender
Misery
Than
Human
Avenge
Act
Grow
But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.
Lysander Spooner
Government
Constitution
Has-Been
One Thing
Case
Prevent
Had
Powerless
Another
Been
Exist
Authorized
Unfit
Whether
Either
Much
Really
Certain
Thing
Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.
John Wooden
Life
You
Money
Living
Prevent
Making
Making A Living
There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.
Jan Schakowsky
Conflict
World
Control
Sick
Earthquakes
We Cannot
Hungry
Prevent
Droughts
Know
Around
Exist
Lot
Stop
Where
Cannot
Happens
Then
Help
Homeless
Freedom of speech means freedom for those who you despise, and freedom to express the most despicable views. It also means that the government cannot pick and choose which expressions to authorize and which to prevent.
Alan Dershowitz
Government
Freedom
You
Freedom Of Speech
Despicable
Despise
Those
Prevent
Pick
Pick And Choose
Most
Also
Cannot
Which
Means
Choose
Views
Who
Express
Expressions
Speech
I can understand the Chinese Wall: it was built as a defense against marauders. But a wall such as that in Berlin, built to prevent people from seeking freedom, is almost beyond comprehension.
Robert Kennedy
Freedom
People
Defense
Berlin
Seeking
Comprehension
Prevent
Almost
Beyond
Understand
Built
Wall
Against
Chinese
I may be what my enemies desire me to be, yet never an accusation are they able to hurl against me which makes me blush or lower my forehead; and I hope that God will be merciful enough with me, to prevent me from committing one of those faults which would involve my family.
Jose Rizal
Hope
God
Family
Me
Enemies
Will
Enough
Faults
Those
Would
Hurl
Able
Prevent
Never
Merciful
Involve
Makes
Forehead
Accusation
May
Committing
Blush
Which
Against
Lower
Desire
We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.
Robert E. Lee
Wisdom
Our
Must
Prevent
Disasters
Call
Greater
Falling
Expect
Prudence
Energies
Sent
Forth
Us
Teach
Even
Defeats
If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.
Thomas Jefferson
Government
Happy
People
Care
Become
Must
Pretence
Prevent
Taking
Labours
Them
Wasting
Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn't planned or counted on.
Henri Nouwen
Life
Spiritual
You
Discipline
Space
Somewhere
Everything
Something
Spiritual Life
Prevent
Counted
Occupied
Up
Being
Happen
Which
Create
Means
Planned
Your
Certainly
Preoccupied
Filled
I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.
Jefferson Davis
War
Day
Mad
Ourselves
Would
Prevent
Could
Blind
Govern
Came
Years
North
Us
Worked
Twelve
Let Us
Night
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
Maya Angelou
Travel
People
Try
Become
Other
Worry
Laugh
Introduce
Eat
Prevent
Idea
Perhaps
Cry
Understand
Demonstrating
Friends
Die
May
Cannot
Even
Each
The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.
Gene Roddenberry
Strength
Fight
Ability
Rather
Prevent
Civilization
Them
Measured
Wars
The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.
James Monroe
Government
Best
Evil
Sum
Prevent
Most
Likely
Greatest
Form
Which
Just as we teach our children how to ride a bike, we need to teach them how to navigate social media and make the right moves that will help them. The physical world is similar to the virtual world in many cases. It's about being aware. We can prevent many debacles if we're educated.
Amy Jo Martin
Ride
World
Social Media
Will
Virtual
Our
Physical
About
Cases
Similar
Physical World
Prevent
Make
How
Educated
Just
Being
Children
Moves
Social
Them
Bike
Teach
Help
Navigate
Many
Media
Aware
Right
Need
A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.
Elie Wiesel
Man
Destruction
Only
Prevent
Annihilation
Provoke
The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.
George C. Marshall
War
Win
Way
Only
Prevent
Human
Human Beings
Beings
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
John Stuart Mill
Good
Will
Power
Own
Community
Others
Rightfully
Member
Moral
Physical
Only
Prevent
Purpose
Civilized
Over
His
Any
Either
Which
Against
Warrant
Sufficient
Harm
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