Health Quotes - Page 27

• Rising before daylight is also to be commended; it is a healthy habit, and gives more time for the management of the household as well as for liberal studies.

  Aristotle

  Giving, Rising, Daylight

  Economics I

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• All lives have equal value. And so you say, 'why do poor children die when other children don't? Why do some people have enough nutrition or reasonable toilets and other people don't?' So those basic needs that, through innovation, actually it's very affordable to bring them...to everyone.

  Bill Gates

  Leadership, Children, Technology

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• In response to criticism of its treatment of killer whales, Sea World said it will build them a larger habitat. When asked for comment, killer whales said, 'Hey, you know what's a larger habitat?' THE OCEAN.

  Conan O'Brien

  Nature, Ocean, Science

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• I was always able to understand my friend who decided to quit smoking and who, through an effort of will, succeeded in doing so. One morning, he opened the newspaper, read that the first H- bomb had exploded, found out about the bomb's admirable effects and went straight to the tobacconist's.

  Albert Camus

  Morning, Smoking, Effort

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• Robin [Williams] was a world treasure. As we mourn his tragic death, we must remember him for the great waves of laughter that he was able to illicit from us, how his humor and insights - though they came from a place of pain and uncertainty - connected us and reminded us of how flawed and fragile...how human we are. How we are capable of moments of inspired transcendence and others of unspeakable despair.

  Glenn Close

  Leadership, Wisdom, Pain

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• True Shandeism, think what you will against it, opens the heart and lungs, and like all those affections which partake of its nature, it forces the blood and other vital fluids of the body to run freely thro' its channels, and makes the wheel of life run long and chearfully round.

  Laurence Sterne

  Running, Heart, Thinking

  'Tristram Shandy' (1759-67) bk. 4, ch. 32

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• Sickness sensitizes man for observation, like a photographic plate.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Men, Sickness, Illness

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• Nobody's madder than me about the website not working as well as it should, which means it's going to get fixed.

  Barack Obama

  Mean, Politics, Ethics

  "Obama: No 'sugarcoating' problems with health website" by Matt Smith and Tom Cohen, www.cnn.com. October 21, 2013.

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• The women rest their tired half-healed hearts; they are almost
  well.

  Louise Bogan

  Tired, Heart, Half

  Louise Bogan, Ruth Limmer (1981). “Journey around my room: the autobiography of Louise Bogan : a mosaic”, Viking Pr

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• We're getting rid of the D [in PTSD]. PTS is an injury; it's not a disorder. The problem is when you call it a disorder, [veterans] don't think they can be treated. An employer says, 'I don't want to hire somebody with a disorder.

  George W. Bush

  Work, Reality, Thinking

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• We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Leadership, Wisdom, Reflection

  "Queen's Christmas message - full text", www.theguardian.com. December 25, 2013.

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• I...understand that age is kind of awesome. I am fortunate enough to know women like Gloria Steinem - who I think is one of the most stunning women on the planet - [who] doesn't touch her face. Diane Keaton, Annette Bening - all of these fabulous, fearless women who are flawless - they embrace it!

  Jennifer Aniston

  Leadership, Wisdom, Fashion

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• There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel sorrow. It was just to keep going. I mean, it just was to survive, to live.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Leadership, Wisdom, Pain

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• Under the Obama regime, the president and his allies are intentional in pursuing these conflicts from the perspective that you must sacrifice your most sacred beliefs to government the instant you start a business. You have the protection of the First Amendment as an individual, you see – but the instant you start a business, you lose those protections.

  Bobby Jindal

  Work, Sacrifice, Government

  "The Silent War on Religious Liberty". Bobby Jindal's Remarks at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Library, officeofgovernorbobbyjindal.createsend1.com. February 13, 2014.

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• It is a law of nature that everything run by the government will get more expensive and worse over time. Everything run by the private sector will get better and cheaper over time. The fact that [Obamacare] starts this badly does not bode well....We want healthcare run on the same system that gave us cell phones, flat screens, Jerry Garcia chia pets. Everything you submit to the free market...keeps getting better and better.

  Ann Coulter

  Running, Money, Party

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• Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die.

  Ivan Illich

  Get Well, Healing, Home

  Medical Nemesis

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• Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.

  Jesse Jackson

  Kids, College, Car

  Interview with Douglas Foster, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2000.

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• I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.

  Jesse Jackson

  Mean, Fighting, Race

  "Rev. Jesse Jackson on Fallout From Firing of Shirley Sherrod". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. July 25, 2010.

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• Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Motivational, Fitness, Workout

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1245, Library of America

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• Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

  Franz Kafka

  Despair, Literature, Facts

  Franz Kafka (1979). “The Basic Kafka”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

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• There's nothing more important than our good health - that's our principal capital asset.

  Arlen Specter

  Important, Assets, Principal

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• I am opposed to anybody making a decision for you or me or anybody else about what health care plan we should have.

  Arlen Specter

  Should Have, Decision, Care

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• Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year.

  Arlen Specter

  Strong, Years, Safety

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• It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Waste, Spendthrift, Misers

  Virginibus Puerisque Ch. 5

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• A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Food, Animal, Men

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1911). “The novels and other works of Lyof N. Tolstoï”

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