#prevention

Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it. ↗

— Bernard Levin

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Safe storage and child access prevention laws are critical steps as we seek to reduce the occurrence of accidental shootings and suicides involving guns. ↗

— Carl Levin

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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

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

— John Ashcroft

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Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. ↗

— John Ruskin

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

— Amartya Sen

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America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention. ↗

— Tom Harkin

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He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#disease #disease-prevention #dr-campbell #healthy #nutrition

We sensible often resist intrusive love and its chaos practically, employing measures to prevent the former for fear of the latter. But for all our wit and work, that desperation for control also prevents the pure, transcendental freedom more often delivered by both. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

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There’s a hurricane coming to Florida, and there will be high winds. I should probably turn off my ceiling fans, to try to mitigate the billions of dollars in damages the storm will incur. 
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— Jarod Kintz

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