W. Clement Stone

When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.

American Businessman

Richard Diebenkorn

In abstract painting, I worried about the limited range of possibilities that, as time went on, became increasingly important to me. I wanted to express or deal with differences that an all-over paint and canvas 'presence' neutralized.

American Artist

Morihei Ueshiba

Opponents confront us continually, but actually there is no opponent there. Enter deeply into an attack and neutralize it as you draw that misdirected force into your own sphere.

Japanese Athlete

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

We have our own home-grown terrorism, and to the extent that we can obliterate terrorism all over the world, then our own terrorism will be much easier to neutralize.

Filipino Statesman

Robert Browning

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.

English Poet

William James

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

American Philosopher

RuPaul

It's a neutralizing mantra to say to everybody, 'I come in peace.' I come in peace. That's why it's important.

American Entertainer

Booker T. Washington

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

American Educator

Robert Greene

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

English Playwright

Richard Francis Burton

One death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another.

English Explorer

Use 'neutralize' to describe making various harmful things harmless, not just physical objects.

Broad Applications

'Neutralize' can be used metaphorically to talk about reducing an effect or influence.

Metaphorical Use

In chemistry, 'neutralize' specifically refers to changing pH level to 7, which is neither acidic nor alkaline.

Scientific Context

'Neutralize' can be used both literally in science and figuratively in situations that require balance.

Literal and Figurative

'Neutralize' often implies forceful or strategic actions when used in political or military contexts.

Political Connotations

'Neutralize' doesn't necessarily mean to kill; it can mean to make someone unable to act.

Non-lethal Implication

Use 'neutralize' to indicate subtly reducing the negative impact of something, not always completely eliminating it.

Subtle Impact

'Neutralize' can be used to describe actions that soften emotional responses or conflicts.

Emotional Aspect

 Medicine that slides down your throat can help treat a headache, a sore back, or a throbbing sprained ankle. But how does it get where it needs to go in the first place? The answer is that it hitches a ride in your circulatory blood stream, cycling through your body in a race to do its job before it's snared by organs and molecules designed to neutralize

How does your body...

 As it's produced, bile is funneled into a small container below the liver, called the gallbladder, before being trickled into the intestine to help break down fats, destroy microbes, and neutralize extra stomach acid. Bile also helps carry other toxins and byproducts from the liver out of the body. So as you can see,

What does the liver do?...

 Innate immunity means nonspecific defense mechanisms, and this is our first line of protection. It helps fight off pathogens before they cause a problem. It's like a bouncer at the door of a club. The innate immunity keeps invaders out or neutralizes them shortly after entry so they don't start a fight inside.

Can you actually boost...

 It begins by attacking the immune system's cells and neutralizing its responses, allowing the virus to proliferate. Starting anywhere from two to twenty days after contraction, initial symptoms like high temperature, aching, and sore throat

What we know (and don't...

 up to that number he said this is the abnormal we don't know what is happening tour guides report seeing large animal carcasses floating in one of the parts neutralizing say want you to go to cow to the hippos and we see where that is

Mysterious Hippo Deaths...

 which would expose them to infection. It lubricates your eyes so you can blink. It protects your stomach lining from acid. It neutralizes threats by removing or trapping substances that could make you sick.

How mucus keeps us...

 It aids digestion by producing a special tonic made of water, sodium bicarbonate, and digestive enzymes. Sodium bicarbonate neutralizes the stomach's natural acidity,

What does the pancreas...

 with its protected code neutralized the ants attacked the slug underneath slowly the victim is sliced up

Ants Devour Slug Alive!...

 with its protective coat neutralized the ants attack the slug underneath slowly the victim is sliced up

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