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Quotes About Prevention

One second after an EMP attack, it will be too late to ask two simple questions: what should we have done to prevent the attack and why didn't we do it?
~ William R. Forstchen
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
~ William Shakespeare
Molto meglio allontanare i rischi che vivere nell'incubo del rischio.
~ William Shakespeare
My lord, wise men ne'er wail their present woes, But presently prevent the ways to wail.174
~ William Shakespeare
It is my purpose, as one who lived and acted in these days, first to show how easily the tragedy of the Second World War could have been prevented; how the malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous...
~ Winston Churchill
Churchill: The strangling of Bolshevism at its birth would have been an untold blessing to the human race. Mr. Seymour Cocks (Labor Party): If that had happened we should have lost the 1939 -45 war. Churchill: No, it would have prevented that war. [Speech in the House of Commons, May 11,1953]
~ Winston S. Churchill
Sin embargo, una guerra aplazada puede ser una guerra evitada.
~ Winston S. Churchill
A war postponed may be a war prevented. The combinations of States vary as years pass. The Ententes or Alliances of one decade may have lost their savour in the next. Time and peace solve many problems, and men's thoughts move on to new spheres.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Great Britain will certainly do her utmost to organise a coalition resistance to any act of aggression committed by any Power, and it is believed that the United States will co-operate with her, and even possibly take the lead of the world, on account of her numbers and strength, in the good work of preventing such tendencies to aggression before they break into open war.
~ Winston S. Churchill
What advice would I give the average homeowner to protect himself against burglars? Well, the first thing is to keep a light on in the house when you go out. It must be at least a sixty-watt bulb; anything less and the burglar will ransack the house, out of contempt for the wattage.
~ Woody Allen
When soldiers are sick or wounded, doctors can fix them up, but you've got to save them from falling ill in the first place.
~ Xenophon
RUNNERS wearing top-of-the-line shoes are 123 percent more likely to get injured than runners in cheap shoes, according to a study led by Bernard Marti, M.D., a preventative-medicine specialist at Switzerland's University of Bern.
~ Christopher McDougall
Runners in shoes that cost more than $95 were more than twice as likely to get hurt as runners in shoes that cost less than $40.
~ Christopher McDougall
Hoy en día, el doctor Hartmann cree que el mejor consejo para la prevención de lesiones es el que escuchó de boca de un entrenador que recomendaba «correr descalzo sobre césped húmedo tres veces a la semana». No
~ Christopher McDougall
The math is stark: cut the fat, and cut your cancer risk.
~ Christopher McDougall
las células residuales que la cirugía deja atrás al parecer son estimuladas por las proteínas animales. Si retiramos esos alimentos de nuestra dieta, esos tumores probablemente nunca llegarán siquiera a aparecer. Come como un pobre, como le gusta decir al entrenador Joe Vigil, y solo tendrás que ver al médico en un campo de golf. —Todo
~ Christopher McDougall
Risk" isn't quite the right term; it's more like "dead certainty." Every year, anywhere from 65 to 80 percent of all runners suffer an injury. That's nearly every runner, every single year. No matter who you are, no matter how much you run, your odds of getting hurt are the same. It doesn't matter if you're male or female, fast or slow, pudgy or ripped as a racehorse, your feet are still in the danger zone.
~ Christopher McDougall
Meiner Meinung nach ist jeder ein Verräter an der Menschheit, der nicht seine ganze Kraft dem Versuch widmet, weitere Kriege zu verhindern.
~ Christopher Morley
It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death.
~ Christy Turlington
Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker.
~ Christy Turlington
Don't let the same dog bite you twice.
~ Chuck Berry
Democracy is even more important for what it prevents than for what it provides.
~ Clive James
As a player, I was fortunate to work with coaching and medical staffs that underscored the importance of utilizing injury prevention exercises, which contributed to my healthy and long playing career.
~ Cobi Jones
Sir William Osler, the first Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins Medical School and a unique teacher and clinician, said: "One of the first duties of the physician is to educate… [people] not to take medicine." You should not assume a physician is inadequate if he does not give a prescription at the end of your visit.
~ Herbert Benson