"People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations."

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"People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations."

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"When I realized that my body had been damaged from adverse environmental exposures, I decided to use it for medical research and to develop the recovery techniques."

Steven Magee, British Author

Health, Research, Recovery, Science

"Very simply, we subsidize high-fructose corn syrup in this country, but not carrots. While the surgeon general is raising alarms over the epidemic of obesity, the president is signing farm bills designed to keep the river of cheap corn flowing, guaranteeing that the cheapest calories in the supermarket will continue to be the unhealthiest."

Michael Pollan, American Educator

Health, Food, Observation, Economics

"Some people who have been working out regularly for months or even years are still out of shape because the number of cheat days they have in a week exceeds six."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Health, Fitness, Truth, Discipline

"To be precise, there are three gems for healthy life: sufficient workouts, healthy food, and enough sleep."

Girdhar Joshi, Indian Author

Health, Balance, Lifestyle, Wellness

"Some men would not still be HIV negative or alive, if they had managed to sleep with some of the women with whom they want or wanted to have sex."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Health, Relationship, Survival, Risk

"Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure."

Rumi, Persian Poet

Health, Medicine, Pain, Cure, Healing

"I feel like the health industry is getting nothing but stronger every day."

Karen Carpenter, American Musician

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"I have a computer screen near my seat where I monitor the overall health of the vehicle and pick up any problems that might be occurring early on or once we see any kind of a malfunction or anything unusual that's happening, we can look at the data and figure out what that is."

Laurel Clark, American Astronaut

Health, Computer, Problems

"There is just no reason why the richest nation in the world can't provide health care to all its people."

Christine Gregoire, American Politician

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"Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it."

Henry Ford, American Businessman

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"Why are we born? We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes."

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"I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored."

Past

"That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic."

Health

"So people are ready. I feel hopeful in that sense."

People

"All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white?"

Time

"We are the most powerful nation in the world, but we're not the only nation in the world. We are not the only people in the world. We are an important people, the wealthiest, the most powerful and, to a great extent, generous. But we are part of the world."

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"Nonetheless, do I have respect for people who believe in the hereafter? Of course I do. I might add, perhaps even a touch of envy too, because of the solace."

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"When I realized that my body had been damaged from adverse environmental exposures, I decided to use it for medical research and to develop the recovery techniques."

"Some people who have been working out regularly for months or even years are still out of shape because the number of cheat days they have in a week exceeds six."

"To be precise, there are three gems for healthy life: sufficient workouts, healthy food, and enough sleep."

"Some men would not still be HIV negative or alive, if they had managed to sleep with some of the women with whom they want or wanted to have sex."

"Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure."

"I feel like the health industry is getting nothing but stronger every day."

"I have a computer screen near my seat where I monitor the overall health of the vehicle and pick up any problems that might be occurring early on or once we see any kind of a malfunction or anything unusual that's happening, we can look at the data and figure out what that is."

"There is just no reason why the richest nation in the world can't provide health care to all its people."

"Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it."

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"Why are we born? We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes."

"I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored."

"That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic."

"So people are ready. I feel hopeful in that sense."

"All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white?"

"Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too."

"I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory."

"I thought, if ever there were a time to write a book about hope, it's now."

"We are the most powerful nation in the world, but we're not the only nation in the world. We are not the only people in the world. We are an important people, the wealthiest, the most powerful and, to a great extent, generous. But we are part of the world."

"Nonetheless, do I have respect for people who believe in the hereafter? Of course I do. I might add, perhaps even a touch of envy too, because of the solace."