Prevent
To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct.
To be beforehand with; to anticipate.
To intercept; to hinder; to frustrate; to stop; to thwart.
To come before the usual time.
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Prevent Quotations
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
Albert Einstein
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
Benjamin Franklin
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
Maya Angelou
If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
C. S. Lewis
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
George Washington
Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.
Wayne Dyer
The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
Aristotle
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Eleanor Roosevelt
Prevent Translations
prevent in Afrikaans is voorkom
prevent in Danish is hindre, forhindre
prevent in Dutch is beletten, verhinderen, verhoeden
prevent in German is vorbeugen, verhindern, verhindern
prevent in Italian is troncare, prevenire, impedire
prevent in Latin is impedo
prevent in Spanish is impedir, retener, molestar, cautelar, prevenir
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