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- Nov 07, 2020
Avert Quotes
On stopping the worst before it arrives.
These quotes each describe some kind of averted catastrophe: central banks trying to avert deflation, a scientist spending half a life trying to avert a danger created by science itself, and diplomacy weighed against the need to achieve peace through strength.
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- Nov 07, 2020
However, in spite of the general perception that monetary policy should be conducted so as to avert deflation, a central bank cannot lower interest rates below the zero lower bound.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must continue to pursue peace through diplomacy, but we must also not shrink from our responsibility through the option of strength. We must take advantage of internal resistance and change from within Iran to avert this path of mutual destruction.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.
- Civilization
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- Nov 07, 2020
No civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?
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- Nov 07, 2020
With some diseases, like type 2 diabetes, if people get alerted early, they can take steps to avert getting sick.
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- Nov 07, 2020
No government, no head of state, made any attempt to avert or arrest the Boer War.
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- Nov 07, 2020