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Health Quotes


"When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh."


"A major difference between witches and psychotherapists is that witches see the mental health of women as having important political consequences."


"One state retiree, 49 years old, paid, over the course of his entire career, a total of $124,000 towards his retirement pension and health benefits. What will we pay him? $3.3 million in pension payments over his life and nearly $500,000 for health care benefits - a total of $3.8m on a $120,000 investment."


"I have to say that in this particular cow that we're dealing with, those parts of the cow were removed, and so we don't think there's any risk or very negligible risk to human health with this particular incident."


"It is not government's job to mandate responsibility on our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to make wise consumption choices for ourselves and our children. It is up to us to do what is best for our health and our children's health."


"Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind."


"I'm convinced that we can shape a different future for this country as it relates to mental health and as it relates to suicide."


"I was making frequent use of cocaine at that time ... I had been the first to recommend the use of cocaine, in 1885, and this recommendation had brought serious reproaches down on me."


"In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable."


"All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care."


"A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users."


"Fettuccine Alfredo is dangerous for your health."


"This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption."


"It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate."


"We need strong public health institutions to respond to any challenge. We need to deal with critical infrastructure. The reality is that very little money has flowed to communities to help our first responders; to help our hospitals; to help the public health infrastructure."


"Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society."


"Both referred to the Affordable Care Act, which is the accurate title of the health care reform law, as 'Obamacare.' That is a disparaging reference to the President of the United States, it is meant as a disparaging reference to the President of the United States."


"They've got to tell us what is necessary to ensure the future health of the river system."


"As state leaders, I think its important for us to provide our perspectives on issues we face every day - like access to school spending, access to health care and governing in a global economy."


"Americans pay up to 1000 percent more to fill their prescriptions than consumers in other countries - that is an alarming statistic."


"Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property."


"Every day we do get closer to a cure. Three out of four children who are diagnosed with cancer will survive the disease, but that is not good enough. The loss of one child to this disease is too much."


"For many Americans, including many who are employed, going to the doctor when they fall ill or become injured may not be an option because of the absence of health insurance."


"Today right here in America we have 50 million people without health insurance."


"As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other."


"When you don't fit in anymore, eat less."


"Nurses are an integral component of the health care system, and it is important that we recognize the over 2.7 million registered nurses for the significant work that they do."


"Crazy-busy' is a great armor, it's a great way for numbing. What a lot of us do is that we stay so busy, and so out in front of our life, that the truth of how we're feeling and what we really need can't catch up with us."


"The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness."


"Body follows mind. If the mind compares itself to others this could lead to overtraining. Tune out what other runners do and how fast they run. Tune in, instead, to how your body wants to increase speed and distance."


"A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available."


"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."


"Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement."


"Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health."


"Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system."


"We don't we agree that litigation reform to lower the cost of healthcare would be a good starting point?"


"Most illegals are without health insurance, and when these workers need emergency healthcare, the American taxpayer gets stuck with the bill."


"The aging of the U.S. population is a theme that we believe strongly in and the health care sector is really right in the bulls eye of this particular theme."


"The most beautiful, amazing and inevitable fact about life- Everything has a natural healing process."


"Making sure that health care is affordable for every American. I think that is very, very important."
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