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Of course, if this season turns out to be terrible for me - if I get injured again and this prevents me from reaching a satisfying level, then I could change my decision again. But at this moment, it absolutely feels like the right thing for me to continue through 2003.

Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic.

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.'

I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.

Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Accordingly, since nothing prevents the earth from moving, I suggest that we should now consider also whether several motions suit it, so that it can be regarded as one of the planets. For, it is not the center of all the revolutions.

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

The problem with a purely collective system is not only that it requires economic growth, and the right sort of demographic trends, but that it prevents people thinking about their futures in a responsible way.

We all know that any thing which retards in any way the free circulation of the sap, also prevents to a certain extent the formation of wood and leaves.

A fat stomach sticks out too far. It prevents you from looking down and seeing what is going on around you.

Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.