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Health Quotes
"I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing."
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"The time is now for Congress to address health care in America."
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"It has pleased and interested me to see how I could get along under difficult circumstances and with so much discomfort but as I say I was not sent out here to improve my temper or my health or to make me more content with my good things in the East."
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"Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together."
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"Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services."
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"I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health."
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"There is no disputing the fact that American consumers pay 30 to 300 percent more for the same prescription drugs as our counterparts in Canada, Europe, and the rest of the world."
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"I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers, which I do not underestimate."
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"There is no question that managed care is managed cost, and the idea is that you can save a lot of money and make health care costs less if you ration it."
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"Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health."
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"When I learned that flour pound for pound has as many calories as sugar, and that when eating pasta you're basically eating cake, I was size 23, and my neck was restricting my breathing, and so I got on a microbiotic diet and got myself an exercise bike."
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"A healthy man watched what he ate. An intelligent man watched what he watched."
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"Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also."
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"If you don't want me to attend the patient I'll go.''But she can't see a doctor now.''Why not?''She isn't well."
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"The fact is if we do our job right, if we keep worrying not about polls but about the jobs of the American people, about their health care, about their ability to educate their kids, stay in their homes and own their homes, send their kids to college, the basic pillars of a middle-class life, if we keep worrying about the future and building a stronger future for this country, these things will take care of themselves."
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"I'm a big proponent of having a mental health component go along with whatever the physical realities are."
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"Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?"
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"When you are well, your own body is a sealed country into which you need not explore far, but when you are unwell, there is no denying that you are made up of organs and fluids and chemistry and that the mechanisms by which your body operates are not invincible."
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"When I was researching the book Toxic Electricity, I would see biological reactions for up to a week afterwards. They are typically strong in the first day or two after the electromagnetic field (EMF) exposures and tail off as the week goes on. I would feel fine during the EMF exposures and start seeing weird health effects usually during sleep that night. Extended time around high voltage power lines & power poles were the worst for provoking reactions, followed by wifi and transmitting utility meters."
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"Very high altitude observatories are a known worker health hazard."
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"Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses."
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"We will continue to do all we can to protect the public health against these dietary supplements that have been found to cause serious illness and injury."
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"People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing."
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"I've got a book coming out soon so I just must get some weight off."
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"Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get."
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"I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians."
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"The bottom line to this is, there are few doctors who have any expertise in chemical exposure."
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"What we're really trying to do is level out the health care system. It has gotten so one-sided as more and more people have been put into managed care; in fact, about 70 percent of the patients in the country."
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"The medical system in the United States is among the best in the world, if not the best. What if we were to make the United States a medical destination? That would bring a lot of people here because there are a lot of sick people around the world. If they can get U.S. treatment, they will take it, but now think about what that will do."
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"I will continue to support legislation that provides American families and Seniors affordable health care."
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"Americans pay up to 1000 percent more to fill their prescriptions than consumers in other countries - that is an alarming statistic."
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"It's not easy to diagnose because depending where the endometrial deposits are, the symptoms can be quite different. It's an unrecognized problem among teenage girls, and it's something that every young woman who has painful menstruation should be aware of ... it's a condition that is curable if it's caught early. If not, if it's allowed to run on, it can cause infertility, and it can really mess up your life.[Author Hilary Mantel on being asked about being a writer with endometriosis, Nov 2012 NPR interview]"
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