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All Quotes Collection
"Health is the core of human development."
43
"The burden of disease falls on the poor."
166
"The development of the food industry for both domestic and export markets relies on a regulatory framework that both protects the consumer and assures fair trading practices in food."
51
"The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies."
43
"The launch of the report coincides with the initiation by WHO of the global strategy for the prevention and control of osteoporosis, and I think a good partnership could be established in our common efforts to prevent osteoporosis."
84
"This double burden of disease is rapidly putting a serious brake on the development efforts of many countries."
48
"We are also in the process of defining how best to work together with food and other companies to address diet and physical activity factors in order to prevent chronic diseases."
159
"Today osteoporosis affects more than 75 million people in the United States, Europe and Japan and causes more than 2.3 million fractures in the USA and Europe alone."
42
"With an annual investment of $66 billion by 2007, we can save 8 million lives each year."
68
"Women's health is one of WHO's highest priorities."
44
"You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition."
51
"Let me first say that I don't think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract target. I think it is a real and achievable goal."
50
"Although approximately 80% of osteoporosis sufferers are women, as the longevity of the male population increases, the disease will assume increasing importance in men."
226
"Contaminated food is a major cause of diarrhea, substantially contributing to malnutrition and killing about 2.2 million people each year, most of them children."
54
"Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in women."
45
"Cancers of all types among women are increasing."
48
"When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved."
60
"During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development."
45
"A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries."
225
"I have seen this happen in recent years with regard to pharmaceuticals and vaccines, where, working together, we are improving access to medicines and vaccines for infectious diseases in the poorest countries."
50
"In recognising the global problem posed by osteoporosis, WHO sees the need for a global strategy for prevention and control of osteoporosis, focusing on three major functions: prevention, management and surveillance."
40
"Investing in health will produce enormous benefits."
168
"Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children."
56
"More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries."
42
"Since the reduction of risk factors is the scientific basis for primary prevention, the World Health Organization promotes the development of an integrated strategy for prevention of several diseases, rather than focusing on individual ones."
52
"An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money."
55
"I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc."
33
"I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today."
41
"In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli."
44
"There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art."
42
"The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness."
48
"Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves."
89
"After Babar's mother was killed by the hunter, he went to the big city."
215
"When I came into boxing, I brought it to the next level with adverts and doing pantomime and people just got jealous of me doing that."
46
"Some people like going to the pub; I enjoy going to the gym."
33
"Strong line quality, composition and form are more crucial although even this is loosely done."
37
"The colors I use may clash or vibrate against one another but this is done intentionally."
52
"But when you actually go in the ring, it's a very lonely and scary place. It's just you and the other guy."
47
"I wouldn't mind getting emotionally involved with a woman."
44
"The most important thing taught to my students is to not be so photo realist in what they depict."
32
"Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world."
52
"I usually use quick sketches that I accumulated from the figure drawing classes I once instructed."
34
"For example, I like using strong Greek and Roman Renaissance characters as part of my series."
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