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Tag Name "Prevents" (202)

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Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the experiences of other people.
Jane Addams
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Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
Jean Cocteau
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What often prevents our abandoning ourselves to a single vice is, our having more than one.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Identification prevents and perverts the flow of thought-feeling.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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It is not the source but the limitation of power which prevents it from being arbitrary.
Friedrich August von Hayek
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Humor prevents a hardening of the attitudes.
Joel Goodman
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One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind's eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way.
Fritz Kreisler
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Separation prevents the government from determining church policy, whether directly or indirectly.
John M Swomley
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The ego prevents us from helping ourselves by presenting a false notion of what it really means to help ourselves.
Gelek Rimpoche
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Creative work and critical thought, which produces new knowledge, can't be conditioned indeed, conditioning prevents these things from ever happening.
John Taylor Gatto
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The problem with fantasy is the greatest benefit of fantasy: it prevents us from living in the present moment.
Geneen Roth
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Dwelling in the past prevents doing something in the present.
John Wooden
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The pursuit of perfection prevents achievement of the satisfactory.
George Will
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Peace is more than a lofty ideal. It is a practical principle that, with conscious effort, can become a normal part of our lives as we deal with matters both large and small. One habit that prevents inner peace is procrastination. It clutters our minds with unfinished business and makes us uneasy until we finish a task and get it out of the way.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
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A man looking at a hippopotamus may sometimes be tempted to regard a hippopotamus as an enormous mistake but he is also bound to confess that a fortunate inferiority prevents him personally from making such mistakes.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.
Julian Fellowes
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If you want to make a good first impression, smile at people. What does it cost to smile? Nothing. What does it cost not to smile? Everything, if not smiling prevents you from enchanting people.
Guy Kawasaki
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Landmines are among the most barbaric weapons of war, because they continue to kill and maim innocent people long after the war itself has ended. Also, fear of them keeps people off the land, and thus prevents them from growing food.
Kofi Annan
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Compassion can never coexist with judgement because judgement creates the distance, the distinction, which prevents us from really being with the other.
Henri Nouwen
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Not praising the deserving prevents envy.
Laozi
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The artist works with a concentration of his whole personality, and the conscious part of it resolves conflicts, organized memories, and prevents him from trying to walk in two directions at the same time.
Henry Moore
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Communism prevents organizations from developing by stopping the flow of information. The system is based on police and listening devices and triggers the worst characteristics in humans.
Lech Walesa
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What prevents a man's speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
Horace
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