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Prevention is better than cure. -- Desiderius Erasmus
Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder. -- Tertullian
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. -- Benjamin Franklin
The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain. -- Thomas Friedman
Prevention is the daughter of intelligence. -- Walter Raleigh
The EPA is now the Employment Prevention Agency. -- Bob McDonnell
Moderation means prevention. Prevention means achieving much virtue. -- Laozi
Prevention of disease must become the goal of every physician. -- Henry E. Sigerist
Prevention is a very important part of solving the problem of cancer. -- Eva Vertes
Prevention is so much better than healing because it saves the labor of being sick. -- Thomas Adams
America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention. -- Tom Harkin
I don't get no respect. I called Suicide Prevention. They tried to talk me into it. -- Rodney Dangerfield
The best way to resist temptation is to avoid it. Prevention is far, far better than repentance. -- Spencer W. Kimball
Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services. -- Julie Bishop
I can only encourage everyone to take a close look at their practices. Prevention is always better than cure. -- Neelie Kroes
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. -- John Ruskin
Sometimes bullies are your friends and very rarely do bullying prevention tips acknowledge this fact or what to do about it. -- Rosalind Wiseman
Destruction is a man's will,Nevertheless Prevention is also a man's will,Its a man's choice to choose between Destruction and Prevention. :) -- Babu Rajan
Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur. -- Michael J. Fox
The establishment of a National Methamphetamine Prevention Week will significantly increase awareness of meth and educate the public on effective ways to help prevent its use. -- Ron Lewis
Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth. -- Tertullian
Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. -- Alcee Hastings
... if this world were anything near what it should be there would be no more need of a Book Week than there would be a of a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. -- Dorothy Parker
National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month is celebrated each May, and becomes a chance for our Nation to become more familiar with the effects of this disease, and about the preventable steps that we can take to deal with it. -- Lois Capps
Today the real test of America's power and wisdom is not our capacity to make war but our capacity to prevent it. Prevention must be our overriding objective. It can be done. Surrendering to the inevitability of combat only paves the way for its occurring. -- Dale E. Turner
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has established highly specific criteria for the diagnosis of Lyme disease: an acknowledged tick bite, the appearance of a bull's-eye rash, and, for those who don't live in a region where Lyme is common, laboratory evidence of infection. -- Michael Specter
Medication, surgery, and medical tests are all focused on disease, not on health. Prevention is the act of moving away from the disease. Proactivity in health is seeking a high level of wellness and acting in a way that will create that reality in your life. -- Rand Olson
A milligram of prevention is worth a kilogram of cure. -- John Robert Colombo
There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism -- John Ashcroft
You have so much power to bring awareness, prevention and change. -- Ashley Judd
Nowhere is it more true that "prevention is better than cure," than in the case of Parasitic Diseases. -- Rudolf Leuckart
Education, awareness and prevention are the key, but stigmatisation and exclusion from family is what makes people suffer most -- Ralph Fiennes
Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being. -- Lord Acton
A well-chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure. -- Robert Graves
If we truly want to end youth homelessness... then we have to invest in prevention and support communities as they work to implement these life-changing efforts. -- Cyndi Lauper
There are two reasons for drinking wine...when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it... prevention is better than cure. -- Thomas Love Peacock
The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~ -- Thomas A. Edison
Abstinence, being faithful and correct and consistent condom use are the only ways to successfully reach everyone when discussing HIV prevention. I believe that the abstinence message alone does not solve the AIDS epidemic. -- Ashley Judd
A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange. . . .Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not mere companionship. -- Aristotle
The pain of depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne. The prevention of many suicides will continue to be hindered until there is a general awareness of the nature of this pain. -- William Styron
If cancer specialists were to admit publicly that chemotherapy is of limited usefulness and is often dangerous, the public might demand a radical change in direction-possibly toward unorthodox and nontoxic methods, and toward cancer prevention. ...The use of chemotherapy is even advocated by those members of the establishment who realize how ineffective and dangerous it can be. -- Ralph W. Moss
Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable. -- Bill Gates
Pragmatism is good prevention for problems. -- Amit Kalantri
You can't prevent what you can't predict. -- K.M. Mac Aulay
And Ana remembered her father's words, "Say no! Run! Tell me! -- Carolyn Byers Ruch
One of the best aspects of health care reform is it starts to emphasize prevention. -- Anne Wojcicki
Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it. -- Bernard Levin
EBOLA VIRUS put humanity at a great risk. We must act now and together to prevent further crisis. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Imagine, pretend, and play so you can become anyone you want to be. You don't need to be afraid. -- Carolyn Byers Ruch
There is only one ultimate and effectual preventative for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death. -- Harvey Williams Cushing
A fine single malt whisky, of course, is purely medicinal - it cures all manner of ailments one may care to imagine. -- Alex Morritt
Protecting our kids from sexual abuse is not accomplished in a single conversation, but in ongoing conversations grounded in honesty and trust. -- Carolyn Byers Ruch
If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education. -- Jane Fonda
We can have a large impact on the prevention and amelioration of abuse, drug problems, violence, mental health problems, and dysfunction in families. -- Steven C. Hayes
Individuals will achieve healthier lifestyles when prevention and wellness programs are accessible and available in their workplace, through their health provider, and in their communities. -- Rob Wittman
Build a bridge over shame by teaching kids about sexual abuse. Give them a chance to run to us should they encounter it. Be their hero. -- Carolyn Byers Ruch
A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure. -- Robert Graves
Given that the biggest rise in childhood obesity rates are occurring in children ages 3 to 5 years, we must modify our efforts to place an emphasis on prevention versus intervention. -- Darell Hammond
You can do everything you can to try to stop bad things from happening to you, but eventually things will happen, so the best prevention is a positive attitude. -- Marie Osmond
We may never understand illnesses such as cancer. In fact, we may never cure it. But an ounce of prevention is worth more than a million pounds of cure. -- David Agus
A child has a greater chance of being sexually abused than burned in a fire. Along with stop, drop, and roll we must teach them to yell, run, and tell. -- Carolyn Byers Ruch
Today the demands are for even higher standards in the quality of care, for greater flexibility and convenience in treatment times, and for more prevention through screening and health checks. -- Lucy Powell
Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour. -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
In recognising the global problem posed by osteoporosis, WHO sees the need for a global strategy for prevention and control of osteoporosis, focusing on three major functions: prevention, management and surveillance. -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
With a comprehensive action plan, a coalition can engage peole, ideas, and resources across sectorsto create a synergy of health and prevention efforts that will have a lasting effect on community health. -- Frances Dunn Butterfoss
It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention. -- Jane Fonda
When we talk with our children about sexual abuse, we are not only taking a proactive step toward protecting them, we are building our relationship with them--grounded in honesty and trust. It's a win-win situation. -- Carolyn Byers Ruch
The launch of the report coincides with the initiation by WHO of the global strategy for the prevention and control of osteoporosis, and I think a good partnership could be established in our common efforts to prevent osteoporosis. -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
My book, Ambassador Book one: how to take on the world and win will help to illuminate many of the obstacles that we all must face in order to succeed. You are invited on a journey of personal discovery. -- Ken Taylor
You will never catch up with the spread of AIDS no matter how much money, no matter how many antiretrovirals are put into the system, unless you stop its growth. And the only way to stop its growth is prevention. -- Richard Holbrooke
Encouragement to all women is - let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let's see if we can't prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness. -- Maya Angelou
Being satisfied with the little we have; academically, spiritually, financially, ecumenically or otherwise will prevent a lot of problems from coming to us, and our dependence in our abilities and talents will go as far as bringing us satisfaction in life. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
After forty years of working on prevention of a wide range of common and costly psychological and behavioral problems, I am convinced we have the knowledge to achieve a healthier, happier, and more prosperous society than has ever been seen in human history. -- Anthony Biglan
We sensible often resist intrusive love and its chaos practically, employing measures to prevent the former for fear of the latter. But for all our wit and work, that desperation for control also prevents the pure, transcendental freedom more often delivered by both. -- Tiffany Madison
Games where someone wants to touch your body where your swimsuit covers or they ask you to touch their body where their swimsuit covers. Those body parts are private. No one is allowed to touch you there, or ask you to touch them there. -- Carolyn Byers Ruch
I've written important articles on prevention, on the concept of the preventive state, how the law is moving much more in an area of trying to prevent wrongs than trying to deal with them after they occur. That will be my academic/intellectual legacy. -- Alan Dershowitz
Western doctors are like poor plumbers. They treat a splashing tube by cleaning up the water. These plumbers are extremely apt at drying up the water, constantly inventing new, expensive, and refined methods of drying up water. Somebody should teach them how to close the tap. -- Denis Parsons Burkitt
Sometimes I hesitate to use the term sexual abuse. It conjures up worst-case scenarios in our minds, and we think, "That will never happen to my kids." And we never begin the conversation regarding sexual abuse with our children. But one violation left in secret can cause significant pain. -- Carolyn Byers Ruch
Adults need to teach the children they love about sexual abuse so they know what to do if they encounter it. We need to prepare them so they know who to tell, should a violation occur, so they don't have to live with a painful secret, long into adulthood. -- Carolyn Byers Ruch
The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne. The prevention of many suicides will continue to be hindered until there is a general awareness of the nature of this pain. -- William Styron
It is a tragedy, at rate at which EBOLA VIRUS is spreading in West Africa. It is a fatal disease in the history of the world. Intensive education (formal and informal approaches) of the citizens of African can help prevent the spread. International cooperation is urgently needed to combat the EBOLA virus. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I was just four when a hired teenage field hand attempted to molest me. Miraculously, I got away, and I told my dad. My father made three important choices that day: He listened to me, he believed me, and he took action. I was one of the fortunate ones--I had a childhood. -- Carolyn Byers Ruch
If you are a parent, the horoscope will aid you to detect the evil latent in your child and teach you how to apply the ounce of prevention. It will show you the good points also, that you may make a better man or woman of the soul entrusted to your care. -- Max Heindel
Good parents use the mistakes they did in the past when they were young to advice the children God gave to them to prevent them from repeating those mistakes again. However, bad parents always want to be seen as right and appear "angelic and saintly" as if they never had horrible youth days. -- Israelmore Ayivor
We can either continue to collectively stand on the sidelines and debate what is causing autism and if it is an epidemic or we can get on the field and start addressing the real problem - a generation of children with autism. We are not focusing enough on prevention, treatments and support services. -- Jenny McCarthy
One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the world with this appalling problem. Actually there was no choice. Once basic knowledge is acquired, any attempt at preventing its fruition would be as futile as hoping to stop the earth from revolving around the sun. -- Enrico Fermi
Liberty is the prevention of control by others. -- Lord Acton
Liberty is the prevention of control by others. -- Lord Acton
Female friendship was one-tenth prevention and nine-tenths cleanup. -- Maggie Shipstead
Focus on prevention; would save $14B with diabetes. -- Newt Gingrich
The Iraq war took priority over domestic disaster prevention. -- Charles B. Rangel
The Iraq war took priority over domestic disaster prevention. -- Charles B. Rangel
The wellness and prevention market will outgrow the health care market. -- Leroy Hood
An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure. -- Osama bin Laden
There is no society for the prevention of cruelty to women. -- Voltairine de Cleyre
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure understated. -- Warren Buffett
The conduct of war was so much more interesting than its prevention. -- Barbara Tuchman
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of bandages and adhesive tape. -- Groucho Marx
From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines. -- Amartya Sen
One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction... -- Clay Shirky
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it can never be made impulsive to good. -- Horace Mann
Diseases can rarely be eliminated through early diagnosis or good treatment, but prevention can eliminate disease. -- Denis Parsons Burkitt
The work on [polio] prevention was long delayed by... misleading experimental models of the disease in monkeys -- Albert Sabin
It's clear that prevention will never be sufficient. That's why we need a vaccine that will be safe. -- Luc Montagnier
The ABA works tirelessly in its efforts involving the first line of defense: the prevention of burn injuries. -- Richard Neal
As a practicing neurologist, I place central importance in applying current science to the notion of disease prevention. -- David Perlmutter
Being gay is not a terrible, tragic disease that requires prevention or treatment chosen for you by your parents. -- Alice Dreger
True prevention is not waiting for bad things to happen, it's preventing things from happening in the first place. -- Don McPherson
The single greatest impediment to error prevention in the medical industry is that we punish people for making mistakes, -- Lucian Leape
The people have a vital interest in the conservation of their natural resources; in the prevention of wasteful practices. -- Herbert Hoover
My own field, the prevention of genetic disorders in babies, has been possible only because of humane work on animals. -- Robert Winston
Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force. -- Robert Kennedy
Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development. -- Barry Commoner
One of the problems of our society is that we spend too much time thinking about punishment and not enough about prevention. -- Roy Hattersley
We also want to make sure Penn State becomes a national leader in this whole area of child abuse prevention and treatment. -- Rodney Erickson
Drug programs began to turn their attention and money away from prevention and into maintenance. Methadone was cheaper than social workers, I suppose. -- John Dufresne
Violence among boys is so valorized and so encouraged that you have to do things different in violence prevention with boys than with girls. -- Meda Chesney-Lind
I deplore the horrible crime of child-murder...We want prevention, not merely punishment. We must reach the root of the evil, and destroy it. -- Susan B. Anthony
Safe storage and child access prevention laws are critical steps as we seek to reduce the occurrence of accidental shootings and suicides involving guns. -- Carl Levin
Peace requires the provision of a platform for discussion and the exchange of information on matters and activities relevant to the prevention of armed violence. -- Widad Akrawi

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