Groucho Marx
Actor, Comedian, Writer
"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of bandages and adhesive tape."
Prevention quotes
Prevention
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Thomas Adams
Author, Historian
"Prevention is so much better than healing because it saves the labor of being sick."
Ernest Hemingway
Novelist
"The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over."
Bill Gates
Business Magnate, Philanthropist
"Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable."
Laozi
Philosopher
"Moderation means prevention. Prevention means achieving much virtue."
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"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure understated."
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"Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime."
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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."
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"From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines."
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"The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good."
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"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. The very prevention of war requires more faith, courage and resolution than are needed to prepare for war. We must all do our share, that we may be equal to the task of peace."
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"We need to cooperate globally on epidemic preparedness and prevention in the same way we are cooperating globally to stop people from getting nuclear weapons."
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"If you're making abortion illegal and undermining the various things that will allow the prevention of that need, it can only be a situation that goes from bad to worse."
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"My own field, the prevention of genetic disorders in babies, has been possible only because of humane work on animals."
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