quotes 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 -
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The conduct of war was so much more interesting than its prevention.
-- Barbara TuchmanSource : Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series”, p.335, Random House
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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 ShirkySource : Clay Shirky (2008). “Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations”, p.186, Penguin
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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 -
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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 -
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Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services.
-- Julie BishopSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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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 -
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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 AlexanderSource : Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.188, The New Press
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I can only encourage everyone to take a close look at their practices. Prevention is always better than cure.
-- Neelie KroesSource : "Britons face £3bn jump in gas bills" by Mark Milner, Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2006.
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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 -
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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 -
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Nowhere is it more true that "prevention is better than cure," than in the case of Parasitic Diseases.
-- Rudolf LeuckartSource : Rudolf Leuckart (1886). “The Parasites of Man, and the Diseases which Proceed from Them: A Textbook for Students and Practitioners”
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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 -
If crime is going down, you shouldn't be increasing resources for crime prevention. Or you should be taking note of what has worked and concentrate the crime-prevention methods on policies that have a track record of success.
-- Steven Pinker -
Peace, prosperity, and democracy cannot endure if imposed from the outside. We should cease to make false distinctions between peacekeeping and prevention; they are in fact inextricably linked.
-- Susan Rice -
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America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.
-- Tom HarkinSource : "Confucius (and Mark Twain) Say: Boycott 'Health Care' and 'Health Care System' Unless That’s What We Mean" by John Weeks, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2016.
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There is no society for the prevention of cruelty to women.
-- Voltairine de CleyreSource : Voltairine de Cleyre (2012). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.233, SUNY Press
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The pain of depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne. The prevention of many suicides will continue to be hindered until there is a general awareness of the nature of this pain.
-- William StyronSource : William Styron (1990). “Darkness visible: a memoir of madness”, Random House Incorporated
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It can't only be men who are the focus of assault prevention. Women should be too. To say that that puts the blame on victims to have to prevent their own assault is crap and has to be treated as crap.
-- Laura KipnisSource : Source: www.motherjones.com
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Individuals will achieve healthier lifestyles when prevention and wellness programs are accessible and available in their workplace, through their health provider, and in their communities.
-- Rob Wittman -
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.
-- Willie Parker -
True prevention is not waiting for bad things to happen, it's preventing things from happening in the first place.
-- Don McPherson -
Sometimes bullies are your friends and very rarely do bullying prevention tips acknowledge this fact or what to do about it.
-- Rosalind WisemanSource : "School Bullying: What You Haven’t Heard" by Rosalind Wiseman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2011.
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One of the problems of our society is that we spend too much time thinking about punishment and not enough about prevention.
-- Roy HattersleySource : Roy Hattersley's remarks at the House of Commons debate, www.publications.parliament.uk. December 17, 1990.
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Greater public recognition will also be critical in encouraging prevention and early intervention, and more generally in building public support to meet the challenges of dementia.
-- Julie BishopSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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The wellness and prevention market will outgrow the health care market.
-- Leroy Hood