Healthcare Quotes - Page 6

• Bangalore has become a centre for healthcare.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Bangalore, Centre

  "Our creative minds need to be harnessed" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2008.

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• Mercury emissions will continue to harm the environment and to endanger the health of children and pregnant women, until this Administration puts public health before politics.

  Mark Dayton

  Children, Pregnancy, Mercury

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• We are living on average today 34 years longer than our great-grandparents did.

  Jane Fonda

  Motivation, Inspiration, Average

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• If your friends are obese, your risk of obesity is 45 percent higher. ... If your friend's friends are obese, your risk of obesity is 25 percent higher. ... If your friend's friend's friend, someone you probably don't even know, is obese, your risk of obesity is 10 percent higher. It's only when you get to your friend's friend's friend's friends that there's no longer a relationship between that person's body size and your own body size.

  Nicholas A. Christakis

  Motivation, Inspiration, Risk

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• Revolve your world around the customer and more customers will revolve around you.

  Heather Williams

  Inspirational, Loyalty, Heart

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• ...More important than the deficit, more important then healthcare-more important than anything-we have got to do something about our energy strategy. Because if we permit the climate to continue to warm at an unsustainable rate, and if we keep on doing what we're doing until we're out of oil and we haven't made the transition, then it's inconceivable to me that our children and grandchildren will be able to maintain the American way of life and that the world won't be much fuller of resource-based wars of all kinds.

  William J. Clinton

  Children, War, Oil

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• There is a growing subculture of barefoot runners, people who got rid of their shoes. And what they have found uniformly is you get rid of the shoes, you get rid of the stress, you get rid of the injuries and the ailments.

  Christopher McDougall

  Motivation, Stress, Inspiration

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• If someone needs to express their gender in a way that is different, that is okay, and they should not be denied healthcare. They should not be bullied. They don’t deserve to be victims of violence. … That’s what people need to understand, that it’s okay and that if you are uncomfortable with it, then you need to look at yourself.

  Laverne Cox

  Inspiring, Equality, People

  "Laverne Cox Talks to TIME About the Transgender Movement". Interview with Katy Steinmetz, time.com. May 29, 2014.

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• If nuclear power plants are safe, let the commerical insurance industry insure them. Until these most expert judges of risk are willing to gamble with their money, I'm not willing to gamble with the health and safety of my family.

  Donna Reed

  Judging, Safety, Risk

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If we're going to make progress on this issue [of contraception], we have to be really clear about what our agenda is. We're not talking about abortion. We're not talking about population control. What I'm talking about is giving women the power to save their lives, to save their children's lives and to give their families the best possible future.

  Melinda Gates

  Inspirational, Motivational, Children

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• President Obama gave a speech about healthcare tonight, and yesterday he gave a pep talk to students. He told them that in order to succeed they need to work hard and study hard. Then today, former President George W. Bush presented the rebuttal.

  Conan O'Brien

  Hard Work, Order, Yesterday

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• There’s an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of whether or not I’m disabled. Truthfully, the only real and consistent disability I’ve had to confront is the world ever thinking that I could be described by those definitions.

  Aimee Mullins

  Motivation, Real, Inspiration

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• We are the most in-debt, obese, addicted and medicated adult cohort in U.S. history.

  Brené Brown

  Motivation, Inspiration, Adults

  "The power of vulnerability". TED Talks, www.ted.com. June 2010.

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• It is irresponsible to set an arbitrary cap on how much therapy a Medicare beneficiary can receive. It ignores the health needs of our senior population - especially the oldest and sickest.

  John Ensign

  Senior, Population, Needs

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• Why are people so supportive of him [Osama bin Laden] in many countries? Hes been out in these countries for decades building roads, building schools, building infrastructure, building day care facilities, building health care facilities, and the people are extremely grateful.

  Patty Murray

  Country, Grateful, School

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• If China and India were as rich as the United States is today, the market for cancer drugs would be eight times larger than it is now.

  Alex Tabarrok

  Motivation, Cancer, Inspiration

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• The richer we are, the longer we live. And the longer we live, the more expensive it is to take care of our diseases as we get older.

  Alan Russell

  Motivation, Inspiration, Care

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• Trust me. I'm going to make sure this healthcare bill is never, ever, ever implemented.

  John Boehner

  Political, Bills, Trust Me

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• If you like your healthcare plan, you'll be able to keep your healthcare plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.

  Barack Obama

  Presidential, Matter, Able

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• A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact the reality is that they are more expensive and more difficult to access.

  Blanche Lincoln

  Reality, America, Facts

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• The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!

  Mark Russell

  Political, Politics, Republican

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• The backwoodsmen are muttering about making Britain's draconian union laws - already among the toughest in Europe - harsher still. And parts of the media will continue to attack public service pensions, as if school meals staff, refuse collectors and healthcare workers have no right to a decent retirement.

  Frances O'Grady

  Retirement, School, Media

  "Forget 1979. This time we'll unite beleaguered Britain" by Frances O'Grady, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2010.

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• Businesses want to offer solid, affordable health insurance to their employees, but it is getting harder to find every year.

  Herb Kohl

  Years, Want, Employee

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• Health care for all Americans is the most pressing domestic issue today. It's far past time for the President and Congress to deliver health care to everyone.

  Russ Feingold

  Past, Issues, President

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• If we're talking about healthcare lets talk about a healthy diet. If there is anything better in the world in dealing with a healthcare problem it's prevention! We CAN afford prevention!

  Howard Lyman

  Talking, Healthy, World

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