Quotes About Prevention

Seven hundred thousand people in our society (and their families) who will experience stroke this year. (p.xiv)

Learn from the mistakes of others you won't have time to make them all your self

150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine.

Wise parents take simple actions early on so they can avoid having to take very painful ones later.

epitomized in the jingle that calls fluoride 'nature's way to prevent tooth decay.

in September 2014, the European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC) revealed that the pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline had released more than eleven gallons of concentrated live polio virus into rivers near Rixen, Belgium. The release, termed accidental, if in fact purposeful, would demonstrate a reliable way to ensure that the polio vaccine continues to be in high demand.

Guantanamo allows us to secure dangerous detainees without the risk of escape, while at the same time providing us with valuable intelligence information on how best to proceed in the war against terror and prevent future attacks.

The only thing to really be afraid of is if you don't go get your mammograms, because there's some part of you that doesn't want to know . . . that's the thing that's going to trip you up. That's the thing that's going to have a really bad endgame. CYNTHIA NIXON

My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.

Osteoporosis isn't a problem that gets a lot of attention, but it is deadly in older women. The weakening of their bones doesn't only result in cosmetic changes. The fragility means that a fall can be life-threatening.

I can't change what happened to you in the past, but together we may be able to use your experience to help protect other people.

cycling is a nonstop exercise in crash prevention,

Don't deceive yourself. Everyone is guilty of something, and even the innocent can be a threat. Perhaps it takes small crimes to prevent bigger ones, Colonel West, but it's up to bigger men than us to decide.

He wanted to know where the ice was weakest beneath their feet so he could keep them from falling through.

Now I understood why I had to prevent the day world from getting real. I saw that my instinct about this was a true one. As my eyes grew more discerning, I recognized my enemy's face and I was afraid, seeing there was a danger that one day might destroy me. Because of my fear that the daytime world would become real, I had to establish reality in another place.

I should meet many people who do not know anyone personally who has been raped or molested as a child. But I can't remember seeing a newspaper without a rape or molestation charge in it somewhere, and when I ask groups how many people know someone personally with a history of molestation, almost always, every hand in the room goes up.

In the first place, I don't believe you,' answered I;: 'in the second, if you will be such a fool, I can't hinder it.

Because wars you can do, and famines you can do and floods are relatively easy, but no one survives when the cook scratches his arse and then decides not to bother washing his hands.

Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good. I know better. The things I worry about don't happen.

Horlicks guards against night starvation.

I'd like to professionally... continue my education and hopefully become an attorney. I think that's the best way to stop the miscarriage of justice that happened to me from happening to somebody else. I don't think it should ever happen to anyone ever again - not one person.

The first step is really getting our generation to talk to our parents about cancer. Because our research has shown that parents are much more likely to get that diagnostic test or stay on top of their risk profile if it comes from a child.

You pass a program and get people dependent on it, making it brutal to get rid of. The key is not letting it get started.

This program has been successful in detecting and preventing attacks inside the United States.