Quotes About Intervention

It is not just bailouts: government interference in general tends to remove skin in the game.

o acesso a dados aumenta a intervenção, fazendo com que nos comportemos como o sujeito neurótico.

Indeed we rarely look at religion's benefits in limiting the intervention bias and its iatrogenics: in a large set of circumstances (marginal disease), anything that takes you away from the doctor and allows you to do nothing (hence gives nature a chance to do its work) will be beneficial. So

Alas, it has been hard for me to fit these ideas about fragility and antifragility within the current U.S. political discourse—that beastly two-fossil system. Most of the time, the Democratic side of the U.S. spectrum favors hyper-intervention, unconditional regulation, and large government, while the Republican side loves large corporations, unconditional deregulation, and militarism—both are the same to me here.

In this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody is always at the drowning-point.

The all-seeing government can be very nearsighted when it comes to scrutinizing the actions of its own appendages.

Lev bends down and takes the tranq gun away from the cop Connor has just rendered unconscious. I came to save you. That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard!

I will do everything in my power to save them from themselves, but if I am unsuccessful, at least I can take some comfort in the fact that I would then be free.

And, like the Thunderhead, we love humanity. But we know not to coddle it. Humanity must accept the consequences of its own actions. We cannot - should not - protect it from itself.

We've just inserted catheters into your carotid artery and jugular vein," says the nurse. "Right now your blood is being replaced with a synthetic oxygen-rich solution.

This won't do," said Scythe Curie, and took Citra up into her arms, carrying her.

Ich werde es nicht zulassen, dass du dir das Leben nimmst! Es gehört dir nicht!

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Se empieza a salvar el mundo salvando a un hombre por vez; todo lo demás es romanticismo grandioso o política

The natural world is incomplete without the human touch.

When God's in it, the job gets done.

That was when the sprint on vampirism had been proposed and unanimously actioned as an emergency spike.)

To understand the true impact of a treatment, we need to know the "counterfactual," which is what would have happened in the absence of that treatment or intervention.

The purpose of any program evaluation is to provide some kind of counterfactual against which a treatment or intervention can be measured.

I had to sit down and explain to [her friend] that AA was for quitters

It was quite obvious that without severe behavior modification, this boy would grow up to be a serial killer.

If we put ourselves between the god and his victim we may receive blows intended for the offender. When a man blasphemes, what do we do? Do we go and stop his mouth? No. We put our fingers into our ears to stop us hearing. That is a wise action.

God, I wrote, I don't know if you care about my heart or my life, but if you do, I desperately need you. Or maybe you're already doing something and I'm oblivious. I don't know how this works. I'm at the end. Break through. I don't want to hurt my kids. I don't want to hurt my husband. I don't want to hurt the church. And I don't want to hurt you. Please help me.

Lord, You know that Tony is not the man I want him to be. He's not the man You want him to be. So I'm putting him right at the top here.