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What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

It is a very remarkable and significant fact that though no man is quite well or healthy yet every o...

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Henry David ThoreauThe Quotable Thoreau

Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governme...

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You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contra...

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Mr. Orage, one of the most active and intelligent reformers for the last generation in England, atte...

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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

Both sleep and insomnolency, when immoderate, are bad.

I neglected my health, and I was reluctant to have medical check-ups. It was a fundamental mistake f...

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Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, ...

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Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit ...

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Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure...

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This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to...

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The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance.

Children born to teens have less supportive and stimulating environments, poorer health, lower cogni...

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Nobody is sure of his life, property and health when the parliament deliberates.

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain ...

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I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor me...

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A feeble body makes a feeble mind. I do not know what doctors cure us of, but I know this: they infe...

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Insomnia is a very prevalent issue. It's a women's health issue, and I chose to talk about it becaus...

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These people go on to tell us that mobile phones will cook our children’s ears, that long-haul fligh...

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Jeremy ClarksonThe World According to Clarkson

At one point, I had over 800 employees, and I always paid all health care for my people - including ...

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The forces that have worked hard to stoke populist anger against reform are the very ones that benef...

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When I travel, I get lovesick. Well, they call it chlamydia.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in ...

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She felt her strong young body that she had never appreciated when she had it, constantly worrying t...

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I put the word "diagnosis" in quotes because I have not yet seen that case in which a "diagnosis" le...

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We still counted happiness and health and love and luck and beautiful children as "ordinary blessing...

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I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over he would have put diamonds on the f...

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What hurt him most of all, made him feel like a sick child aware of terrible wrongness and yet incap...

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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought,Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught.The wise, f...

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John DrydenThe critical and miscellaneous prose works of John Dryden

If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were alw...

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Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and gi...

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Liza hated alcoholic liquors with an iron zeal. Drinking alcohol in any form she regarded as a crime...

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I could never kill myself. I approve of suicide if you have horrible health. Otherwise it's the ulti...

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I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day h...

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My health and my family are the core of my being.

Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed:It is safe, and you can't get ...

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Elsewhere the paper notes that vegetarians and vegans (including athletes) 'meet and exceed requirem...

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Scientific studies and government records suggest that virtually all (upwards of 95 percent of) chic...

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There were usually not nearly as many sick people inside the hospital as Yossarian saw outside the h...

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There is nothing healthier for a man than to walk on his own two legs

Health is more than the absence of disease. Health is about jobs and employment, education, the envi...

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You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and th...

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With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally.

When you feel yourself to be in critical condition, you must treat yourself as gently as you would a...

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Julia CameronFinding Water: The Art of Perseverance

May you be ordinary, as the poet once wished the new-born baby.

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Julian BarnesThe Sense of an Ending

Apart from education, you need good health, and for that, you need to play sports.

In my opinion, the battles over birth control and Planned Parenthood are primarily neither political...

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I never touch sugar, cheese, bread... I only like what I'm allowed to like. I'm beyond temptation. T...

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Appearing nude on film was not easy when I was twenty-six in Body Heat; it was even harder when I wa...

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Kathleen TurnerSend Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life

An integral approach is based on one basic idea: no human mind can be 100% wrong. Or, we might say, ...

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Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest ...

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Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest ...

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The groundwork of all happiness is health.

For fast-acting relief try slowing down.

Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.

Excellence in health means devoting your life to ending poverty.

Sometimes people ask me how difficult the astronaut program was, but being in Sierra Leone, being re...

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Homeopathy cures a larger percentage of cases than any other form of treatment and is beyond doubt s...

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No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.

Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years...

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You don't train someone for all of those years of medical school and residency, particularly people ...

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I have profoundly mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act. What I love about it is its impulse....

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Living a long life, the conventional wisdom at the time said, depended to a great extent on who we w...

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Malcolm GladwellOutliers: The Story of Success

One way to make health care more affordable is a Flexible Savings Account that allows families to sa...

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I used to jog but it's bad for the knees. Too much beta carotene turns you orange, too much calcium ...

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It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.

Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty - se...

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The broadest possible exercise of imagination is the thing most conducive to human health, individua...

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Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting...

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I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; ...

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The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do wh...

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The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do wh...

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Mark TwainThe Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

He thought, Yeah. Yeah, non-smokers live seven years longer. Which seven will be subtracted by the g...

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All this is simply to say that all life is interrelated. We are caught in an inescapable network of ...

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Health is not a condition of matter but of Mind.

Food and medicine are not two different things: they are the front and back of one body. Chemically ...

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In a massive, long-term study of 17,000 civil servants, an almost unbelievable conclusion emerged: t...

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Matt RidleyGenome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

I read once that you need two things to be happy: any two of health, money, and love. You can cover ...

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I read once that you need two things to be happy. Any two of health, money and love. You can cover t...

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Everybody likes Johnny Cash. I think the sad part of it is his health is givin' him problems.

When we use these words and we talk about plants having a strategy to do this or wanting this or des...

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High-quality food is better for your health.

Those of us who care about food and where it comes from will miss both Obama and Michelle. Even thou...

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Is it just a coincidence that as the portion of our income spent on food has declined, spending on h...

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Michael PollanIn Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

Very simply, we subsidize high-fructose corn syrup in this country, but not carrots. While the surge...

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Michael PollanThe Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

I have heard Silvius, an excellent physician of Paris, say that lest the digestive faculties of the ...

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Antigonus, having taken one of his soldiers into a great degree of favor and esteem for his valor, g...

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Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we're scurry...

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Happiness is like good health: when you have it, you don’t notice it. But as the years go by, oh, th...

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Most single moms are very poor, uneducated, can't get a job, and if it weren't for government assist...

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In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class....

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Being a vegan is pretty easy these days, as almost every town and city has health food stores and ve...

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Beauty is a gift, just like good health or intelligence. The only thing is not to be proud of being ...

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But I hate being a grandfather. It's indecent. In my mind's eye, I'm still twenty-five. Thirty-three...

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We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to educatio...

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Self-discipline is the ability to organize your behavior over time in the service of specific goals.

A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it....

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I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still...

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