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I've decided to be happy because it's good for my health.

The fate of a nation has often depended on the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.

I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.

Why is it that medical strictures and recommendations so often work in favor of food processors and ...

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Industrial medicine is as little interested in ecological health as is industrial agriculture. (Heal...

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What is the point of "labor saving" if by making work effortless we make it poor, and if by doing po...

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I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that God loves the world. I believe that the wo...

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Wendell BerryAnother Turn of the Crank

Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To b...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that God loves the world. I believe that the wo...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise from us is how ordinary, how co...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health. And what our societ...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate ...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

I believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

Health lies in labor and there is no royal road to it but through toil.

It never occurred to me that somehow women did know about it. It just never occurred to me. Yes I am...

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We have a duty tonight. Everybody, and guys this for you as well because I know you know women. You ...

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Saw a film on cancer yesterday, shown by the English delegation. No doubt about it. I'm right. "Migr...

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Wilhelm ReichBeyond Psychology: Letters and Journals

I do not believe that, in order to be religious in the good and genuine sense of the word, one has t...

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Not that I would not, if I could, be both handsome ...and well-dressed, and a great athlete, and mak...

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A disruption of the circadian cycle—the metabolic and glandular rhythms that are central to our work...

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William StyronDarkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness

You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking...

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William SaroyanNot Dying: An Autobiographical Interlude

it has to be emphasized that if the pain were readily describable most of the countless sufferers fr...

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William StyronDarkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness

After my husband John Lennon passed away, I tried to smile for my health.

I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends...

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I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of peopl...

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The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the w...

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Was this the big one or was this the small tremor, the warning? Does it get better - does the sensat...

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Thank heaven I have given up smoking again! . . . God! I feel fit. A different man. Irritable mood...

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The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... ...

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscienc...

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If illness' end be health regained then I Will pay you, Asculapeus, when I die.

After all, perhaps dirt isn't really so unhealthy as one is brought up to believe.

One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone...

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Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes.

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Albert CamusA Happy Death

I know positively - yes Rieux I can say I know the world inside out as no one on earth is free from ...

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The practices we now call conservation are, to a large extent, local alleviations of biotic pain. Th...

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Aldo LeopoldA Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

Bhramari Om Chanting or Humming Om chanting sends positive messages to the brain and the cells in ou...

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Yoga exercises are the best connecting tools for unity, human dignity, health, equality, global peac...

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The mold we give to our lives is so that there will be no cataclysms. The order we seek we are willi...

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Breast cancer alone kills some 458,000 people each year, according to the World Health Organization,...

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I damaged my health during 'Les Mis,' which I didn't want to mention in case it seemed like I was co...

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What, after all, is the object of education? To train the body in health, vigor and grace, so that i...

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

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

In general, nine-tenths of our happiness depends on our health alone.

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Arthur SchopenhauerParerga and Paralipomena

Health so far outweighs all external goods that a healthy beggars is truly more fortunate than a kin...

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Arthur SchopenhauerParerga and Paralipomena

The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught ...

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Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the...

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True security is based on people's welfare - on a thriving economy, on strong public health and educ...

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It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour ...

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Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.

All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness ...

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The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their power...

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Be not sick too late, nor well too soon

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always ...

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People don't trust private health insurance companies for all the right reasons.

It is not as if farming brought a great improvement in living standards either. A typical hunter-gat...

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Bill BrysonAt Home: A Short History of Private Life

If a potato can produce vitamin C, why can't we? Within the animal kingdom only humans and guinea pi...

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Bill BrysonAt Home: A Short History of Private Life

By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.

America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the ...

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Cigars are all the rage, dad. You should smoke cigars!" - Calvin"Flatulence could be all the rage, b...

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Bill WattersonThere's Treasure Everywhere: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost...

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When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost...

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When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost...

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When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost...

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When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost...

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When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost...

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When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost...

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When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost...

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The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic duplicity. Your health ...

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I suppose it is that sickness and weakness are selfish things and turn our inner eyes and sympathy o...

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My trust in God flows out of the experience of his loving me, day in and day out, whether the day is...

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... You must always remember... Whatever their bodies do affects their souls.

I can't think of anything that anyone has ever accomplished without having some sort of self-discipl...

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Cameron DiazThe Body Book: The Law of Hunger

What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body.

When my husband turned 40, I was obsessed. 'Has he had his medical checkup?' He needed to go to the ...

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We farm workers are closest to food production. We were the first to recognize the serious health ha...

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As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when ...

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The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against ...

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Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been ...

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Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Reli...

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Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and we...

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A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful but when taken in excess it is nearly always...

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I'm hoping that these next 20 years will show what we did 20 years ago in sequencing the first human...

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Your emotional state has a tremendous amount to do with sickness, health and well-being. For years, ...

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Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and ...

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As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.

I became a vegetarian out of compassion for animals and to live as healthy as possible. I realized s...

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I will be conveyed to an Emergency Room of some kind, where I will be detained as long as I do not r...

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Ladies and gentlemen after what I've been through I am happy just to be wearing clothes that open ...

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A poet could write volumes about diners, because they're so beautiful. They're brightly lit, with ch...

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The medical literature tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, ca...

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But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you...

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If we are creating ourselves all the time, then it is never too late to begin creating the bodies we...

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I won't say I'm out of condition now - but I even puff going downstairs.

We can be thankful President Barack Obama is taking aim at one of the prime causes of climate change...

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What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakab...

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Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studdedwheelchair.

To have a healthy culture, you have to have stable health care financing and stable arts financing a...

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