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Letter "P" » prevent
«Love is like seaweed; even if you have pushed it away, you will not prevent it from coming back.»
Author: Nigerian Proverb
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About:
Love,
silly
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Keywords:
away,
back,
backed up,
backing,
back away,
back out,
back to back,
coming,
comings,
coming back,
do away with,
even,
evens,
even out,
even up,
from way back,
have,
ITS,
like,
love,
not,
On Our Backs,
prevent,
pushed,
push away,
push back,
push on,
push up,
seaweed,
take back,
this evening,
will
«I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.»
«One cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war»
«Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.»
«More and more products are coming out in fiercely protective packaging designed to prevent consumers from consuming them. These days you have to open almost every consumer item by gnawing on the packaging.»
Author: Dave Barry
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Humorist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
Coming out,
consumer,
consumers,
consuming,
designed,
fiercely,
gnaw,
gnawed,
gnawing,
gnaws,
gnaw at,
item,
more and more,
out in,
packaged,
packaging,
prevent,
products,
protective,
These Days
«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.»
Author: Maya Angelou
(
Poet)
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About:
Travel
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Keywords:
bigotry,
cry,
demonstrates,
demonstrating,
Die Trying,
eat,
introduce,
introduces,
introducing,
peoples,
prevent,
travel
«One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.»
«Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(
Author,
President)
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Keywords:
armed,
arms,
assailant,
assaulted,
assaults,
attacked,
carrying,
commit,
confidence man,
crimes,
determined,
disarm,
disarmed,
disarming,
disarms,
encourage,
forbid,
homicide,
homicides,
inclined,
inclines,
inclining,
Laws,
prevent,
serve,
unarmed
«I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(
Author,
President)
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About:
America and Americans
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Keywords:
Americans,
American government,
Care of,
labors,
predict,
predicting,
Predicts,
pretense,
pretenses,
prevent,
taking,
the government,
wasting
«Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.»