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Health Quotes


"Sleep disorders are a known occupational hazard to astronomers and their support staff."


"I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition."


"If we rest, we shall renewal our strength."


"Taking care of your health and well bring first, is the best way to insure you will be able to care for those you love."


"If you think health care is expensive now, just wait 'til it's free."


"For excellent health and a good skin color, I recommend that people sit next to a shady ultraviolet transmitting window when indoors."


"Good well-being leads to good working performance."


"AIDS would have claimed fewer lives if we had publicly recommended what I wish to call 'The Presumption of Sickness,' i.e., the principle that whomever we are about to sleep with is HIV-positive until proven HIV-negative."


"To understand how to be healthy, a person must first comprehend sickness, disease and death."


"It is unreasonable to expect all children to develop correctly in unnatural man-made electromagnetic radiation fields."


"Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far."


"The old saying that, "you are what you eat" extends beyond the body, and includes experiences."


"The modern human lives in a cesspool of man-made electromagnetic radiation."


"People with Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) are known to put their computer equipment several feet away from them with a large monitor on a big font and they use a wired USB keyboard and mouse to control it."


"With regards to getting laid and getting AIDS: Being interesting can be an interesting guy's downfall."


"In the case of smokers, the abuse leads to death, sicknesses, cancer, amputation, loss of all kinds."


"Maybe I was supposed to hate Caroline Mathers or something because she'd been with Augustus, but I didn't. I couldn't see her very clearly amid all the tributes, but there didn't seem to be much to hate. She seemed to be mostly a professional sick person, like me, which made me worry that when I died they'd have nothing to say about me except that I fought heroically, as if the only thing I'd ever done was Have Cancer."


"We must stand up against old age and make up for its drawbacks by taking pains. We must fight it as we should an illness. We must look after our health, use moderate exercise, take just enough food and drink to recruit, but not to overload, our strength. Nor is it the body alone that must be supported, but the intellect and soul much more."


"Mr Pickwick awoke the next morning, there was not a symptom of rheumatism about him; which proves, as Mr Bob Sawyer very justly observed, that there is nothing like hot punch in such cases; and that if ever hot punch did fail to act as a preventive, it was merely because the patient fell in to the vulgar error of not taking enough of it."


"It is the uninformed that willfully put a cellphone next to their brains."


"I consider myself fortunate that I spent three years working at 7,775 feet before spending five years working at 13,796 feet on the summit of Mauna Kea. I can only wonder how much more severe my long term very high altitude sickness could have been without the initial adaptation to the lower altitude."


"I'd like to lose enough weight so that my bones creaked louder than the floor."


"Healthy trees bear healthy fruit."


". . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker . . ."


"Liza hated alcoholic liquors with an iron zeal. Drinking alcohol in any form she regarded as a crime against a properly outraged deity... When LIza was about seventy her elimination slowed up and her doctor told her to take a tablespoon of port wine for medicine. She forced down the first spoonful, making a crooked face, but it was not so bad. And from that moment she never drew a completely sober breath. She always took the wine in a tablespoon, it was always medicine, but after a time she was doing over a quart a day and she was a much more relaxed and happy woman."


"Being in a hurry is the father of stress and worry."


"To be healthy in modern society, you must adopt the behaviors of an astronaut!"


"Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) has appeared in the general population at approximately the same time as Bee Colony Collapse."


"Nuts, arms, stomachs -- they never hurt. All hurt is brain hurt."


"Radio Wave Sickness and Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity are easily preventable and one can only wonder how much longer the insanity of modern governments is going to be allowed to continue in this area."


"The Mauna Kea night shift was an 18 hour night in wintertime at the 13,796 feet summit (before sunset to after sunrise) with insufficient time for adequate sleep before the next night shift. Night shift was between 5 and 8 nights long and we slept at 9,200 feet. We sat at a desk staring at four large computer monitors and a large cathode ray tube television. I would also use my Wi-Fi laptop computer. I would have extreme fatigue by the end of every night shift and have chapped lips which I now associate with exposure to the artificial light from the computer screens. A good day of sleep between shifts was rare and starting the next shift fatigued was normal."


"I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it."


"I made the mistake of working at the world's largest telescopes and now show classic health degradation that is associated with that biologically toxic environment."


"Negative emotions impact the human psyche."


"The body is the outermost layer of the mind."
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