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First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty. -- Patricia Cornwell
No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing. -- Bernard Levin
Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression. -- John Foster Dulles
This means that the only function of nuclear weapons, while they exist, is to deter a nuclear attack. -- Joseph Rotblat
Democrats always assure us that deterrence will work, but when the time comes to deter, they're against it. -- Ann Coulter
While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor. -- Bobby Scott
No hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. -- Colonel Sanders
Iran has little capacity to deploy force. Its strategic doctrines are defensive, designed to deter invasion long enough for diplomacy to set it. -- Noam Chomsky
Do not let the word 'tripe' deter you. Let its soothing charms win you over, and enjoy it as do those who always have! -- Fergus Henderson
There are no accomplished golf tour operators in Indonesia, so a golf holiday there is a do-it-yourself operation. But don't let that deter you. -- Raymond Bonner
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. -- Abraham Lincoln
Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power. -- Al Gore
I wanted to write about Jews in Montana, so I went there by plane and bus, only to discover that there are no Jews in Montana. It didn't deter me. -- Kevin Barry
It is a warning to all those who may think about becoming involved with a terrorist network, people who are willing to destroy their own lives are hard to deter. -- Otto Schily
I realized that you didn't have to make self-deprecating remarks or turn yourself into the butt of some unspoken joke. I also discovered that being big didn't deter possible suitors. -- Maeve Binchy
As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide. -- Martin Van Creveld
Let's stop pretending we can arrest our way to safety and security. Despite all the fine work that policemen and women do, we have got to find other solutions to deter crime. -- Carrie P. Meek
Plants can't very well defend themselves by their behavior, so they resort to chemical warfare, and plants are saturated with toxins and irritants to deter creatures like us who want to eat them. -- Steven Pinker
Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously. -- Barbara Deming
Really, of all the important mission responsibilities assigned to United States Strategic Command by the president, none is more important than our responsibility to deter a strategic attack on the United States and our allies and partners. -- C. Robert Kehler
We only have two things that we share in this life; we are born and we die. And what we do in between those times, we've got to be happy. I don't let the outside world deter me. -- Dawn Fraser
The reason the United States is not so likely to invade Iran is precisely because of the lessons learned from Iraq. And conversely, the Iranian push towards nuclear capability is calculated to deter invasions like the kind deposing Saddam Husain. -- Steven Pinker
As an actor, I was not accepted for the longest time. But it did not deter me, as the audience had accepted me. I never compared myself with any other actors. I never had any game plan and took whatever came my way. -- Emraan Hashmi
The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don't let anyone deter you from that. -- Eartha Kitt
As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it because we're too afraid to really examine the system, or is it because we really truly believe that this is the best way to deter future crime? -- Jodi Picoult
I had an amazing childhood and always loved to sing and dance, but there were moments where I had ups and downs with my health that often tested me as it does many people. I've never hidden the fact that my health was sometimes not on my side, but I've never let it define me or deter me from my dreams. -- Jessie J
Obsolete weapons do not deter. -- Margaret Thatcher
I've never let the criticism deter me. -- Jamaica Kincaid
Failure instructs, failure improves. Failure shouldn't deter you. -- Tucker Max
We need to deter the Palestinians in any way we can. -- Samantha Power
Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes. -- Karl Kraus
Do not allow the opinions of others deter you. Be yourself and have faith in your abilities. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression -- John Foster Dulles
We have now to fight for peace with the same courage and deter-mination as we fought against aggression. -- Lal Bahadur Shastri
Don't let failure deter you; use it as a stepping-stone and an educational experience towards making your mark on the world. -- Ben Parr
If I have an agenda or a goal, no one is going to deter me from what I want to do. -- Michael Jordan
The practice of gratitude is incompatible with negative emotions and may actually diminish or deter such feelings as anger, bitterness, and greed. -- Sonja Lyubomirsky
Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of. -- H. L. Mencken
[No one will be able to] deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the tides. -- Warren E. Burger
If there are issues, if there's wrongdoing, people have to be held accountable and we have to try to deter future bad behavior. -- Hillary Clinton
For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes. -- Cesare Beccaria
Do not let the word tripe deter you. Let its soothing charms win you over, and enjoy it as do those who always have! -- Fergus Henderson
Do not let the word 'tripe' deter you. Let its soothing charms win you over, and enjoy it as do those who always have!" -- Fergus Henderson
This was my attempt to deter cold callers: "There's no past, there's no future, just one pulsating present... Please leave your message after the tone." -- Bill Bailey
We can't deter people fleeing for their lives. They will come. The choice we have is how well we manage their arrival, and how humanely -- Antonio Guterres
The brave man wants no charms to encourage him to his duty, and the good man scorns all warnings that would deter him from fulfilling it. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
I smoke a pipe abroad, because To all cigars I much prefer it, And as I scorn you social laws, My choice has nothing to deter it. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter. -- Richard Whately
As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others will often deter tender minds from vice. -- Horace
Conventional wisdom nor scientific, mathematical prove of randomness in life could do nothing to deter human's curiosity for the unknown, however small the chance of a positive outcome maybe. -- Vann Chow
Ask yourself...If I walk a tight rope,will I fall ,If I shake my balance of thought will it deter me and if I stay focused will I succeed?.~bns -- Bluenscottish
My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn't deter her. -- Loni Anderson
Military strikes on Afghanistan will not prevent something this terrible from happening again, for the simple reason that bombs will not deter people who are unafraid of death and desire martyrdom. -- Jemima Khan
Nothing will deter us from building the future we want for our children. What greater rejection of those who would tear down our world than marshaling our best efforts to save it. -- Barack Obama
Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to deter a man from so vain a pursuit. -- Joseph Addison
I starved and slept on park benches. I wrapped myself in the pages of my manuscript to keep warm. For two and a half years I took odd jobs; nothing was going to deter me. -- Gary Jennings
If someone does something we disapprove of, we regard him as bad if we believe we can deter him from persisting in his conduct, but we regard him as mad if we believe we cannot. -- Thomas Szasz

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