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Governments must nurture freedom as a garden, tending to it vigilantly to prevent its withering under the shadow of authority. – Aloo Denish Obiero	added by Aloo-Denish 5 months ago
The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. Even when the revolutionist might himself repent of his revolution, the traditionalist is already defending it as part of his tradition. Thus we have two great types -- the advanced person who rushes us into ruin, and the retrospective person who admires the ruins. He admires them especially by moonlight, not to say moonshine. Each new blunder of the progressive or prig becomes instantly a legend of immemorial antiquity for the snob. This is called the balance, or mutual check, in our Constitution. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton	added by Normando 5 months ago
To prevent jealousy: Distribute the praise justly. – Ryan Pack	added by littleking 9 months ago
The safety of our aviators is our top priority, and this stand down is an important step to make certain we are doing everything possible to prevent accidents and protect our personnel. – Staff James McConville	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We’re much better when we detect things before there’s an emergency, we can prevent major emergencies from happening. – Anne Schuchat	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We want the bank and appraisal company to be held responsible for what they did and to prevent this from happening to other people of color. – Erica Parker	Found on CNN 1 year ago
As Secretary of Defense, I will also not hesitate to take any additional measures necessary to safeguard our nation’s secrets, accordingly, I am directing the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security to conduct a review of our intelligence access, accountability and control procedures within the Department to inform our efforts to prevent this kind of incident from happening again. – Lloyd Austin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The most important thing to remember is that congenital syphilis is 100% preventable, in many ways, it is the result of our failure to prevent syphilis among women of reproductive age and their partners. – Leandro Mena	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s also a painful moment of recognition that our legislators and people like (Speaker of the House) Cameron Sexton and the Republican party in Tennessee and across the South in this country are not doing nearly enough to prevent guns from getting in the hands of people and doing all of the holistic work of gun prevention that is necessary in places across our communities. – Justin Pearson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
And any reference to the Capitol riot will only unfairly prejudice the jury against Fox, inflame passions, prevent a fair trial, and taint any resulting verdict. – Fox News	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There are quite a number of marine organisms that have not yet been identified and are only present at the Verde Island Passage … and that’s something that we should protect. And hopefully, we do everything that we can to prevent the oil from causing damage in that area. – Irene Rodriguez	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Let me assure you that we are indeed trying to prevent unlawful entries at our southern border. – Alejandro Mayorkas	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We are probably not going to be able to do anything to stop, slow down, disrupt, interdict, or destroy the Chinese nuclear development program that they have projected out over the next 10 to 20 years, they’re going to do that in accordance with their own plan. And there’s very little leverage, I think, that we can do externally to prevent that from happening. – Mark Milley	Found on CNN 1 year ago
In America, workers have the constitutional right to organize unions and engage in collective bargaining for higher wages and better working conditions, unfortunately Starbucks, under Mr. Schultz’s leadership, has done everything possible to prevent that from happening. – Bernie Sanders	Found on CNN 1 year ago
As Secretary Yellen has said, we have used important tools to act quickly to prevent contagion. And they are tools we would use again if warranted to ensure that Americans’ deposits are safe. – Domestic Finance Liang	Found on CNN 1 year ago
He made this with personal funds to prevent something from coming out, false, that is embarrassing to himself, his family, his young son. – Joe Tacopina	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Fasting is not compulsory if you’re feeling not well. So in that regard — anything that can jeopardize the mission or maybe put the crew member at risk — we’re actually allowed to to eat sufficient food to prevent any escalation of lack of food or nutrition or hydration. – Sultan Alneyadi	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Essentially, what that means is, we don’t let any blood go through the heart and the lungs and bypass all of that, that allows us to then stop the blood flow to the lungs, which will prevent any cancer cells from going from the lung into the bloodstream. – Ankit Bharat	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The optics around hiking rates at the same time are clearly not good, but these things are not mutually exclusive, as the central bank addresses a modest financial panic and prevent further bank runs from beginning. – Joe Brusuelas	Found on CNN 1 year ago
He made this with personal funds to prevent something from coming out, false, that is embarrassing to himself, his family, his young son. That is not a campaign finance violation by any stretch. – Joe Tacopina	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Wearing sandals while swimming, snorkeling and boogie-boarding, is essential in many San Diego and Los Angeles spots to prevent cuts and injuries, i also love to hike in various types of terrain, so finding a durable pair that can withstand slippery conditions is essential. I’ve owned the brand’s Hurricane sandals for over a year now, and I wear them non-stop during the spring and summer. When I visit Austin( my second home), I love to wear them swimming at the Barton Springs pool( a non-chlorinated natural spring water pool), which is dangerously slippery thanks to the overgrowth of algae. – Mia Maguire	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Our goal at the NTSB is to find the probable cause and to improve aviation safety, we will try to prevent this accident from happening again in this area. – Lynn Spencer	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The bill would prevent a large group of extremely vulnerable refugees from relying on human rights protections, by leaving it up to the Home Secretary to decide who should be protected and who should be deported – and excluding the courts almost entirely, for example, victims of modern slavery will not be able to use laws designed to protect them. This attacks the core idea of human rights that everyone is protected, and that states must, under the ECHR, give people access to an effective remedy. – Adam Wagner	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This will help us address the threats we face today, and also prevent such risks from arising in the future. – Jake Sullivan	Found on CNN 1 year ago

Governments must nurture freedom as a garden, tending to it vigilantly to prevent its withering under the shadow of authority.

– Aloo Denish Obiero

added by Aloo-Denish
5 months ago

The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. Even when the revolutionist might himself repent of his revolution, the traditionalist is already defending it as part of his tradition. Thus we have two great types -- the advanced person who rushes us into ruin, and the retrospective person who admires the ruins. He admires them especially by moonlight, not to say moonshine. Each new blunder of the progressive or prig becomes instantly a legend of immemorial antiquity for the snob. This is called the balance, or mutual check, in our Constitution.

– Gilbert Keith Chesterton

added by Normando
5 months ago

To prevent jealousy: Distribute the praise justly.

– Ryan Pack

added by littleking
9 months ago

The safety of our aviators is our top priority, and this stand down is an important step to make certain we are doing everything possible to prevent accidents and protect our personnel.

– Staff James McConville

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re much better when we detect things before there’s an emergency, we can prevent major emergencies from happening.

– Anne Schuchat

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We want the bank and appraisal company to be held responsible for what they did and to prevent this from happening to other people of color.

– Erica Parker

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As Secretary of Defense, I will also not hesitate to take any additional measures necessary to safeguard our nation’s secrets, accordingly, I am directing the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security to conduct a review of our intelligence access, accountability and control procedures within the Department to inform our efforts to prevent this kind of incident from happening again.

– Lloyd Austin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The most important thing to remember is that congenital syphilis is 100% preventable, in many ways, it is the result of our failure to prevent syphilis among women of reproductive age and their partners.

– Leandro Mena

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s also a painful moment of recognition that our legislators and people like (Speaker of the House) Cameron Sexton and the Republican party in Tennessee and across the South in this country are not doing nearly enough to prevent guns from getting in the hands of people and doing all of the holistic work of gun prevention that is necessary in places across our communities.

– Justin Pearson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

And any reference to the Capitol riot will only unfairly prejudice the jury against Fox, inflame passions, prevent a fair trial, and taint any resulting verdict.

– Fox News

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There are quite a number of marine organisms that have not yet been identified and are only present at the Verde Island Passage … and that’s something that we should protect. And hopefully, we do everything that we can to prevent the oil from causing damage in that area.

– Irene Rodriguez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Let me assure you that we are indeed trying to prevent unlawful entries at our southern border.

– Alejandro Mayorkas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are probably not going to be able to do anything to stop, slow down, disrupt, interdict, or destroy the Chinese nuclear development program that they have projected out over the next 10 to 20 years, they’re going to do that in accordance with their own plan. And there’s very little leverage, I think, that we can do externally to prevent that from happening.

– Mark Milley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In America, workers have the constitutional right to organize unions and engage in collective bargaining for higher wages and better working conditions, unfortunately Starbucks, under Mr. Schultz’s leadership, has done everything possible to prevent that from happening.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As Secretary Yellen has said, we have used important tools to act quickly to prevent contagion. And they are tools we would use again if warranted to ensure that Americans’ deposits are safe.

– Domestic Finance Liang

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He made this with personal funds to prevent something from coming out, false, that is embarrassing to himself, his family, his young son.

– Joe Tacopina

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Fasting is not compulsory if you’re feeling not well. So in that regard — anything that can jeopardize the mission or maybe put the crew member at risk — we’re actually allowed to to eat sufficient food to prevent any escalation of lack of food or nutrition or hydration.

– Sultan Alneyadi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Essentially, what that means is, we don’t let any blood go through the heart and the lungs and bypass all of that, that allows us to then stop the blood flow to the lungs, which will prevent any cancer cells from going from the lung into the bloodstream.

– Ankit Bharat

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The optics around hiking rates at the same time are clearly not good, but these things are not mutually exclusive, as the central bank addresses a modest financial panic and prevent further bank runs from beginning.

– Joe Brusuelas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He made this with personal funds to prevent something from coming out, false, that is embarrassing to himself, his family, his young son. That is not a campaign finance violation by any stretch.

– Joe Tacopina

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Wearing sandals while swimming, snorkeling and boogie-boarding, is essential in many San Diego and Los Angeles spots to prevent cuts and injuries, i also love to hike in various types of terrain, so finding a durable pair that can withstand slippery conditions is essential. I’ve owned the brand’s Hurricane sandals for over a year now, and I wear them non-stop during the spring and summer. When I visit Austin( my second home), I love to wear them swimming at the Barton Springs pool( a non-chlorinated natural spring water pool), which is dangerously slippery thanks to the overgrowth of algae.

– Mia Maguire

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our goal at the NTSB is to find the probable cause and to improve aviation safety, we will try to prevent this accident from happening again in this area.

– Lynn Spencer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The bill would prevent a large group of extremely vulnerable refugees from relying on human rights protections, by leaving it up to the Home Secretary to decide who should be protected and who should be deported – and excluding the courts almost entirely, for example, victims of modern slavery will not be able to use laws designed to protect them. This attacks the core idea of human rights that everyone is protected, and that states must, under the ECHR, give people access to an effective remedy.

– Adam Wagner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This will help us address the threats we face today, and also prevent such risks from arising in the future.

– Jake Sullivan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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