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"Ask any woman and she'll tell you: health care for women is more expensive than it is for men. In fact, during their reproductive years, women spend 68% more on health care than men do."
Rod Blagojevich
"Ask any woman and she'll tell you: health care for women is more expensive than it is for men. In fact, during their reproductive years, women spend 68% more on health care than men do."
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"Working families need to know that we will work to protect their health needs, promote the development of safe, effective medicines, and guarantee patient rights."
Christopher Dodd
"Working families need to know that we will work to protect their health needs, promote the development of safe, effective medicines, and guarantee patient rights."
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"I am also a believer in an integrated treatment approach to autism."
Temple Grandin
"I am also a believer in an integrated treatment approach to autism."
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"Health economists have estimated that an injection of $250 million per year in Indigenous clinical care, and $50 million in preventative care, is required to provide services at the same level as for any other group with the health conditions of Indigenous Australians."
Malcolm Fraser
"Health economists have estimated that an injection of $250 million per year in Indigenous clinical care, and $50 million in preventative care, is required to provide services at the same level as for any other group with the health conditions of Indigenous Australians."
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"Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things."
Robert Southey
"Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things."
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"The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet."
James Earl Jones
"The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet."
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"We must continue our fight to ensure that Federal, State, and local authorities have the resources and support necessary to combat this growing epidemic. This is a top priority for me and many of my colleagues here in Congress."
Ron Lewis
"We must continue our fight to ensure that Federal, State, and local authorities have the resources and support necessary to combat this growing epidemic. This is a top priority for me and many of my colleagues here in Congress."
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"A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience."
Sydney Smith
"A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience."
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"The H-1B visa program which helps sustain our rapidly growing economy and also helps meet the health care needs of families living in rural New Mexico."
Heather Wilson
"The H-1B visa program which helps sustain our rapidly growing economy and also helps meet the health care needs of families living in rural New Mexico."
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"We believe that if you put in place the mechanisms that allow for personal choice as far as Medicare is concerned, as well as the programs in Medicaid, that we can actually get to a better result and do what most Americans are learning how to do, which is to do more with less."
Eric Cantor
"We believe that if you put in place the mechanisms that allow for personal choice as far as Medicare is concerned, as well as the programs in Medicaid, that we can actually get to a better result and do what most Americans are learning how to do, which is to do more with less."
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"Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users."
Ralph Nader
"Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users."
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"While most Americans have access to the best oral health care in the world, low-income children suffer disproportionately from oral disease."
Michael K. Simpson
"While most Americans have access to the best oral health care in the world, low-income children suffer disproportionately from oral disease."
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"We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city."
Michael Bloomberg
"We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city."
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"Illegal drug use runs contrary to the image of health depicted by cycling. Distributors of these drugs must be prosecuted more harshly as they are ciminals."
Bernard Hinault
"Illegal drug use runs contrary to the image of health depicted by cycling. Distributors of these drugs must be prosecuted more harshly as they are ciminals."
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"Medicines are only fit for old people."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"Medicines are only fit for old people."
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"I believe health care is a civil right."
Dennis Kucinich
"I believe health care is a civil right."
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"I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens."
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"Small businesses are seeing huge rate increases every year, and more and more of them are saying they just can't afford to provide coverage. That's part of the reason more than 45 million Americans are now uninsured."
Greg Walden
"Small businesses are seeing huge rate increases every year, and more and more of them are saying they just can't afford to provide coverage. That's part of the reason more than 45 million Americans are now uninsured."
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"We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health."
M. Scott Peck
"We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health."
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"Today, nearly 40 percent of a senior's healthcare spending is on pharmaceutical medications."
Dennis Hastert
"Today, nearly 40 percent of a senior's healthcare spending is on pharmaceutical medications."
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"For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism."
Walter Rudolf Hess
"For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism."
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"Too many of my constituents, like many other hard working Americans across the country, are suffering unnecessarily due to our flawed health care system."
John Conyers
"Too many of my constituents, like many other hard working Americans across the country, are suffering unnecessarily due to our flawed health care system."
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"We need to be careful when we talk about cutting health care costs. They are not going to be reduced - what we really want to do is do is slow the rate of increase."
David Obey
"We need to be careful when we talk about cutting health care costs. They are not going to be reduced - what we really want to do is do is slow the rate of increase."
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"Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem."
Ralph Merkle
"Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem."
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"I think in England you eat too much sugar and meat and not enough vegetables."
Arsene Wenger
"I think in England you eat too much sugar and meat and not enough vegetables."
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"Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause."
Nathaniel Branden
"Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause."
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"I'm one of those people who is actually inspired by a deadline. I might not sleep for many days on end, it may not be good for my health, but it definitely helps."
Carter Burwell
"I'm one of those people who is actually inspired by a deadline. I might not sleep for many days on end, it may not be good for my health, but it definitely helps."
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"There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health."
C. Everett Koop
"There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health."
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"As the GAO report recognizes, the long-term health of our forests relies on additional fuel reduction options and funding to reduce the risks that catastrophic fire poses to our nation's ecosystems, communities and federal budgetary resources."
Greg Walden
"As the GAO report recognizes, the long-term health of our forests relies on additional fuel reduction options and funding to reduce the risks that catastrophic fire poses to our nation's ecosystems, communities and federal budgetary resources."
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"A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not desired on the part of the woman and she gives no response, it should not take place."
Margaret Sanger
"A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not desired on the part of the woman and she gives no response, it should not take place."
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"To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty."
Rowan D. Williams
"To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty."
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"Family, nature and health all go together."
Olivia Newton-John
"Family, nature and health all go together."
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"I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women's health care and education, and I'd dive on a live grenade to get this message out, so thank you for this forum."
Karen Duffy
"I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women's health care and education, and I'd dive on a live grenade to get this message out, so thank you for this forum."
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"We need a vibrant Medicaid program and strategies to expand affordable access to health care for all, especially for the specialty care services that community health centers do not provide."
Jan Schakowsky
"We need a vibrant Medicaid program and strategies to expand affordable access to health care for all, especially for the specialty care services that community health centers do not provide."
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"I have been on the same dose of anti-depressants for 15 years, and my nerves still go up and down in cycles; but my nerves are cycling at a lower level than they were before."
Temple Grandin
"I have been on the same dose of anti-depressants for 15 years, and my nerves still go up and down in cycles; but my nerves are cycling at a lower level than they were before."
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"In some ways I'm still recovering from the trial. My health is not as good as it ought to be. I've gone back to practicing law and it seems to have taken a toll for whatever reason."
Christopher Darden
"In some ways I'm still recovering from the trial. My health is not as good as it ought to be. I've gone back to practicing law and it seems to have taken a toll for whatever reason."
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"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."
Gro Harlem Brundtland
"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."
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"In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year."
Jan Schakowsky
"In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year."
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"Balance is key: I need to be successful in my career to feel fulfilled, be surrounded by people I care about to share it with, and have my health to be able to do the things I love to do!"
Kiana Tom
"Balance is key: I need to be successful in my career to feel fulfilled, be surrounded by people I care about to share it with, and have my health to be able to do the things I love to do!"
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"No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health."
Charles Caleb Colton
"No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health."
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"You know, there are people making a lot of money in this country who can actually afford their own health care. We are in a situation where we got a safety net in place in this country for people who frankly don't need one. We got to focus on making sure we got a safety net for those who actually need it."
Eric Cantor
"You know, there are people making a lot of money in this country who can actually afford their own health care. We are in a situation where we got a safety net in place in this country for people who frankly don't need one. We got to focus on making sure we got a safety net for those who actually need it."
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"Harmony can be achieved within through meditation, which increases overall well-being and function."
Jay Woodman
"Harmony can be achieved within through meditation, which increases overall well-being and function."
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"For the last 3 years, we have celebrated National Nurses Week. Beginning on May 6, we will once again have the opportunity to truly commend the nursing community for their contributions to our national health delivery system."
Nathan Deal
"For the last 3 years, we have celebrated National Nurses Week. Beginning on May 6, we will once again have the opportunity to truly commend the nursing community for their contributions to our national health delivery system."
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"Longevity is having a chronic disease and taking care of it."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Longevity is having a chronic disease and taking care of it."
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"Very high altitude extreme night shift work is a class 2A carcinogen that may result in lifelong disabling sleep disorders, high cholesterol, radiation sickness and heart, lung and brain damage."
Steven Magee
"Very high altitude extreme night shift work is a class 2A carcinogen that may result in lifelong disabling sleep disorders, high cholesterol, radiation sickness and heart, lung and brain damage."
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"It may be possible that Leukemia in children is linked to the location of the fuse board and the electrical meter on the home."
Steven Magee
"It may be possible that Leukemia in children is linked to the location of the fuse board and the electrical meter on the home."
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"Radiation does discriminate. If you are sedentary and eating processed foods then you will be more affected than a person that exercises and eats fresh organic food."
Steven Magee
"Radiation does discriminate. If you are sedentary and eating processed foods then you will be more affected than a person that exercises and eats fresh organic food."
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"I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'"
Lauren Bacall
"I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'"
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"All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization."
Abraham Maslow
"All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization."
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"Eating properly is great. I mean you cut the fat down, cut the cholesterol out, but still you got to get your rest and you got to have some form of exercise."
Mike Ditka
"Eating properly is great. I mean you cut the fat down, cut the cholesterol out, but still you got to get your rest and you got to have some form of exercise."
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