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  He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Fitness, Hope

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• The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

  Jimmy Carter

  Health, Destiny, Marijuana

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• Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

  Redd Foxx

  Funny, Lying, Stupid

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• Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Wise, Money

  Benjamin Franklin (1821). “Essays and Letters”, p.80

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• When you are young and healthy, it never occurs to you that in a single second your whole life could change.

  Annette Funicello

  Health, Second Chance, Single Relationship

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• Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

  John F. Kennedy

  Motivational, Fitness, Health

  "Sport at the New Frontier: The Soft American". Sports Illustrated Vol. 13, Issue 26, (pp. 14-17), December 26, 1960.

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• Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Happiness, Health, Doctors

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.1638, Jazzybee Verlag

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• There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.

  Josh Billings

  Inspirational, Fitness, Time

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• If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Motivational, Being Happy

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• A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.

  Paul Dudley White

  Motivational, Fitness, Health

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• Early to bed and early to rise makes a person dull, boring, and despised.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Funny, Health, Sleep

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• Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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• It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

  Meryl Streep

  Funny Inspirational, Children, Food

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• A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

  Tom Stoppard

  Positive, Attitude, Inspiration

  "There Will Always be a Tree". Book by Jerry S. Beall, 2010.

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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

  Organization, Risk, Development

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• Health can be defined negatively, as the absence of illness, functionally, as the ability to cope with everyday activities, or positively, as fitness and well-being. It has also been noted that in the modern world, health still has a moral dimension.

  Mildred Blaxter

  Health, Everyday, World

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• The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market.

  Pauline Hanson

  Drug, Black, Experts

  "Revisit Pauline Hanson's infamous maiden speech". www.sbs.com.au. July 19, 2016.

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• My final conclusion after 40 years or more in this business is that the unofficial policy of the World Health Organization and the unofficial policy of the Save the Children's Fund and almost all those organizations is one of murder and genocide. They want to make it appear as if they are saving these kids, but in actual fact they don't

  Archie Kalokerinos

  Children, Kids, Years

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• Unfortunately, in rich-world health, innovation is both your friend and your enemy. Innovation is inventing organ replacement, joint replacement. We're inventing ways of doing new things that cost $300,000 and take people in their 70s and, on average, give them an extra, say, two or three years of life. And then you have to say, given finite resources, should we fire two or three teachers to do this operation?

  Bill Gates

  Teacher, Average, Years

  "Bill Gates: ‘Death is something we really understand extremely well’". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. May 17, 2013.

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• The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems.

  Peter Agre

  Winter, Careers, Long

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• The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because of noise pollution.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Years, Europe, Organization

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• World Health Day is an opportunity to highlight the problem, but above all, to stimulate action. It is an occasion to call on all partners - governments, international donors, civil society, the private sector, the media, families and individuals alike - to develop sustainable activities for the survival, health and well-being of mothers and children. On this World Health Day, let us rededicate ourselves to that mission.

  Kofi Annan

  Mother, Children, Health

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• Sweden rejected fluoridation in the 1970s, and in this excellent book these three scientists have confirmed the wisdom of that decision. Our children have not suffered greater tooth decay, as World Health Organization figures attest, and in turn our citizens have not borne the other hazards fluoride may cause

  Arvid Carlsson

  Children, Book, Organization

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• The World Health Organization recently published some data showing that each overweight person causes and additional one tonne of CO2 to be emitted every year. With one billion people overweight around the world-of whom at least 300 million are obese-that's an additional one billion tonnes.

  Jonathon Porritt

  Years, Data, Organization

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• The reality is, cellphones have to be used safely. They are today like cars and trucks - we can't live without them, but we certainly wouldn't give a car or truck to a toddler to drive. Why are we thinking it's perfectly okay to give a device that the World Health Organization has said is a "possible human carcinogen" to infants and toddlers, and for that matter, schoolchildren?

  Devra Davis

  Reality, Thinking, Organization

  Source: www.salon.com

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