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Disgust with dirt can be so great that it prevents us from cleaning ourselves - from 'justifying' ourselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery...It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor.

Horace Mann

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

Confucius

These are galvanized, steel poles and they're filled with a solid resin that prevents them from being cut from a cutting torch.

Agent Michael Gramley

This prevents the release of dopamine, a brain chemical that makes people feel rewarded, and as a result they don't want more nicotine.

Serena Tonstad

I sincerely ask the president, have you heard people's view? What is it that prevents you from coming out? ... Don't hide in your house.

Lien Chan

It prevents credit unions from extending their services to small employee groups.

Stephen Brobeck

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.

Russell Green

[The jury awarded plaintiff Carol Ernst $243 million, though Texas law prevents her from collecting damages that high.] When the dust settles there will be $26.3 million at 10 percent interest annually, ... I'm not sure Ms. Ernst will see any of that for the next five years.

Mark Lanier

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.

Eric Hoffer

The coating basically causes water that hits the surfaces to develop a sustained sheeting effect, and that prevents fogging.

Michael Rubner

Mental illness is an equal-opportunity illness. Every one of us is impacted by mental illness. One in five adults are dealing with this illness, and many are not seeking help because the stigma prevents that.

Margaret Larson

That prevents dogs from voting; that prevents dead people from voting.

Sen. Delbert Scott

That pipe prevents debris from the eucalyptus trees from flowing past the culvert and causes the water to back up.

Bill Bookout

Nothing prevents him from being an advocate for the right. Minimally, he could earn a leadership role of advocacy. But that is very different from a position of political power.

Robert Audi

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

Lewis Thomas

I would call the dollar's reaction a little muted. This data is generally volatile anyway, which prevents too much market reaction.

Aaron Simpson

A tide like that prevents the normal drainage from all the creeks and streams that normally drain into the bay. It's like a dam. You combine a 7-foot tide with 15- to 20-foot seas, and you can see why people are worried. Luckily, it's not a commute morning.

Mike Pechner

A child that is free for adoption or may become free for adoption would likely be placed in our home before it would be placed in a home that was not adoption motivated. This prevents the child from being moved from place to place unnecessarily. If a child in our home does become adoptable, we would have the first opportunity at adoption.

Melissa Harwell

The lack of economic access prevents them from educational opportunities. If we work on the poor communities together, we can bring everyone up together.

Rob Howard

On the day she's due to leave there will be a family tragedy that prevents her from coming, and that's the last he ever sees of his 2,000 dollars.

Duncan Forrest

[Poetry] is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

Lord Byron

In women, aspirin prevents strokes and doesn't have any real effect on heart attack, and in men aspirin prevents heart attacks but has no effect on the prevention of strokes. So there appears to be a gender-based difference in the beneficial effect of aspirin.

Dr. David Brown

It's good health policy to have higher cigarette prices. It prevents kids from starting to smoke and it encourages adults to quit.

Marc Manley

I think the shock of the event prevents you from feeling anything. I did not feel any pain at all.

Marc Cohn

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

Andre Gide

The bill may be a little ahead of its time, but I think it prevents some very onerous activity. It is groundbreaking.

Rep. Scott Suder

We care about women getting the health care that they need to get. Women need to take this in a timely way and anything that prevents that will be an obstacle.

Betty Defazio

Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.

Bryant H. Mcgill

HEMP, n. A plant from whose fibrous bark is made an article of neckwear which is frequently put on after public speaking in the open air and prevents the wearer from taking cold.

Ambrose Bierce

The fact that the US has consistently allowed its domestic politics and its ideological prejudice against China... to supersede fairness is what prevents a speedy solution to the trade frictions.

Yuan Peng

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

W. Somerset Maugham

That argument enters into the equation of fiction and prevents the real judgment of character.

Ronald Harwood

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Claude Bernard

The more managers it encompasses, the better, as it gives more people a stake in the performance of the company and prevents just a handful from benefiting.

Carlos Moreno

That seals the cut and prevents the cuttings from getting an embolism, which is an air bubble.

Peter Sorrentino

A snack now prevents your blood sugar dropping.

Ian Marber

In a sense, it is the possibility that the algorithm could run which prevents the algorithm from running. That is at the heart of quantum interrogation schemes, and to my mind, quantum mechanics doesn't get any more mysterious than this.

Paul Kwiat

Aspirin prevents the blood in the body from clotting, and because stroke and heart attack are both caused by the formation of blood clots in the body, anything that prevents blood clotting from forming would be expected to have a beneficial effect in those diseases.

Dr. David Brown

The only thing that prevents it right now isn't distance. It's speed.

Dan Fette

There's no reason that I can't. No judge has issued any kind of injunction that prevents me from doing that, and that's what this whole lawsuit is about.

Daniel Moore

We just can't keep saying here's a little bit more, here's a little bit more. It's a mentality at this point that prevents developers from always being as accurate or frugal as they can be, knowing there's always the fallout of city funds.

Tim Little

We only estimate meters if we can't get to them because they're behind a locked gate or if the weather prevents us from doing that and in this case, yes, the meters were read.

Chris Stanley

Every solution also has drawbacks. Our goal is to work to find the most economic solution that prevents cattle theft and puts those who break the law behind bars.

Brent Bryant

Prevents us from seeing reality.

Pierre Mailloux

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 S. Szasz

Most are extreme optimists, who see opportunity all over, especially in their field. Often, their success prevents them from being conservative and protecting their downside.

Kacy Gott

State law prevents us from auditing the General Assembly.

Robert Teplitz

It prevents ovulation, implantation or fertilization.

Daniel Kessler

I think we should find a solution, and I don't think it would be hard to find a solution that is both tolerant of churchgoers and prevents homeowners from being locked in. This is a cooling-off period. I think it's very unfortunate how heated it has gotten.

Phil Mendelson