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Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.
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A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
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However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself.
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I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence - this may look like affectation but it is my real opinion. It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
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I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.
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In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.
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It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.
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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
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Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.
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Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.
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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.
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Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often miscarriages, but seldom reaches either power or honor.
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Somewhere in the rain, there will always be an abandoned dog that prevents you from being happy.
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The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.
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