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For me personally, the most critical lesson of all is this: Local commitment to peace is all-important, but it is often not enough to prevent or end violence.
I don't know how to prevent that, but I'm at least going to use my good offices to get you folks together to come up with a response."
So he crashes down, and he gets slightly injured, but this does not prevent him from jumping up and then starting to jump up and down on his bike and curse violently.
Instead of "go anywhere, do anything you want," we actually created a regime that required prior assessment of where you're going and a duty to prevent significant harm.
The only way to prevent a bad outcome is to prevent that first injury from happening.
If guys are killing themselves from this disease and we could study it to maybe prevent this from happening in the future, sometimes you've just got to suck it up and do something that's very hard."
But our Concussion Legacy Foundation is here to not only facilitate this work, and that's the long game, but the short game is, hey, we can prevent this.
We can prevent this disease if we just stopped hitting people in the head so much.
For me the policing stood for power to correct, power to prevent and power to detect.
But I decided no, it's a power to prevent, because that's what I learned when I was growing up.
How do I prevent the 10 and never make it more than 10?
So these three guys all understand how to productively channel dollars through our local economies to meet existing market demands, reduce the social problems that we have now and prevent new problems in the future.
Now, this system, eventually, with other innovations, is what helped prevent stampedes altogether at that festival.
And my new dream is to improve, adapt and deploy the system all over the world to prevent loss of life and ensure a safe flow of people, because every human soul is precious, whether at concerts or sporting events, the Maha Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, the Hajj in Mecca, the Shia procession to Karbala or at the Vatican City.
They buy these seaweed-based snacks there called Veggie Booty with Kale, which is for kids who come home and say, "Mom, mom, I want a snack that'll help prevent colon-rectal cancer."
Think also, if it were possible ever for you to choose, not simply to choose the sex of your child, but for you in your body to make the genetic adjustments that would cure or prevent diseases.
And it's just about a full-time job trying to prevent people who are scared of these ideas from caricaturing them and then running off to one dire purpose or another.
I'm going to find that out, and when I find that out, I'm going to prevent a huge amount of damage that he could cause.
That has a very high utility to prevent that damage.
But it wasn't sufficient to prevent General Abuzaid saying that he had the strategy and the resources to deliver, in 2005, the "decisive year."
Cars have LED-based headlights, LED-based back lights, and cars can communicate with each other and prevent accidents in the way that they exchange information.
And this leads to the wonderful irony that our languages exist to prevent us from communicating.
And I think the real challenge is to figure out where are the cases in our lives where conflicts of interest work on us, and try not to trust our own intuition to overcome it, but to try to do things that prevent us from falling prey to these behaviors, because we can create lots of undesirable circumstances.
Let's prevent the Tasmanian devil from being the first animal to go extinct from cancer.
It has this bizarre, ongoing philosophical project of dividing all the inanimate objects in the world into the ones that either cause or prevent cancer.
Some things they say prevent cancer: crusts, red pepper, licorice and coffee.
So: "Red wine can help prevent breast cancer."
"A glass of red wine a day could help prevent breast cancer."
The only way to do that is to improve the world, prevent others from behaving in similar ways and foster compassion."
We have the capacity to alleviate suffering, extend life, prevent diseases, cure debilitating ailments, reduce infant mortality and preserve our planet.
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