Quotes and Sayings About Prevention
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The work on [polio] prevention was long delayed by... misleading experimental models of the disease in monkeys
-- Albert Sabin -
From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.
-- Amartya Sen -
One of the best aspects of health care reform is it starts to emphasize prevention.
-- Anne Wojcicki -
You have so much power to bring awareness, prevention and change.
-- Ashley Judd -
The conduct of war was so much more interesting than its prevention.
-- Barbara Tuchman -
Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.
-- Barry Commoner -
Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it.
-- Bernard Levin -
One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction...
-- Clay Shirky -
We may never understand illnesses such as cancer. In fact, we may never cure it. But an ounce of prevention is worth more than a million pounds of cure.
-- David Agus -
Diseases can rarely be eliminated through early diagnosis or good treatment, but prevention can eliminate disease.
-- Denis Parsons Burkitt -
Prevention is a very important part of solving the problem of cancer.
-- Eva Vertes -
We've gone from a preponderance of acute and infectious disease as a source of premature death to chronic diseases, which are the preponderance of the burden of illness in most of the world. That puts a much higher premium on the prevention of chronic disease than ever in history.
-- Harvey V. Fineberg -
regulation is useful and proper, when aimed at the prevention of fraud or contrivance, manifestly injurious to other kinds of production, or to the public safety, and not at prescribing the nature of the products and the methods of fabrication.
-- Jean-Baptiste Say -
The death penalty serves no one. It doesn't serve the victims. It doesn't serve prevention. It's truly all about retribution....There comes a time when you have to ask if a penalty that is so permanent can be available in such an imperfect system. The only guarantee against executing the innocent is to do away with the death penalty.
-- Jeanne Woodford -
There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism
-- John Ashcroft -
A milligram of prevention is worth a kilogram of cure.
-- John Robert Colombo -
Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services.
-- Julie Bishop -
Not only is yoga excellent for flexibility, but it is also a great tool for longevity and injury prevention, as it allows for internal body awareness.
-- Kyle Shewfelt -
National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month is celebrated each May, and becomes a chance for our Nation to become more familiar with the effects of this disease, and about the preventable steps that we can take to deal with it.
-- Lois Capps -
Female friendship was one-tenth prevention and nine-tenths cleanup.
-- Maggie Shipstead -
Eugenics, which had started long before my time, had once been defined as including free love and prevention of conception... Recently it had cropped up again in the form of selective breeding.
-- Margaret Sanger -
The nature of the criminal justice system has changed. It is no longer primarily concerned with the prevention and punishment of crime, but rather with the management and control of the dispossessed.
-- Michelle Alexander -
I can only encourage everyone to take a close look at their practices. Prevention is always better than cure.
-- Neelie Kroes -
We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination.
-- Olympia Snowe -
An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure.
-- Osama bin Laden -
The ABA works tirelessly in its efforts involving the first line of defense: the prevention of burn injuries.
-- Richard Neal -
A well-chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.
-- Robert Graves -
My own field, the prevention of genetic disorders in babies, has been possible only because of humane work on animals.
-- Robert Winston -
Nowhere is it more true that "prevention is better than cure," than in the case of Parasitic Diseases.
-- Rudolf Leuckart -
I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention program to provide surveillance, research and preventive services aimed at reducing the rate of birth defects.
-- Solomon Ortiz
