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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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There's no dignity, no decency, or health today for men that haven't got a job. All other things dep...

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Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their healt...

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Luck is blind, they say. It can’t see where it’s going and keeps running into people…and the people ...

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The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in...

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It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to prob...

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Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.

Illness is always an interaction between [mind and body]. It can begin in the mind and affect the bo...

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Norman CousinsAnatomy of an Illness: As Perceived by the Patient

Suppose I stopped taking aspirin and phenylbutazone? What about the pain? The bones in my spine and ...

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Norman CousinsAnatomy of an Illness: As Perceived by the Patient

Time is the one thing that patients need most from their doctors--time to be heard, time to have thi...

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Norman CousinsAnatomy of an Illness: As Perceived by the Patient

If ignorance about the nature of pain is widespread, ignorance about the way pain-killing drugs is e...

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Norman CousinsAnatomy of an Illness: As Perceived by the Patient

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.

With age comes the understanding and appreciation of your most important asset, your health.

Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. Health is the primary duty of life...

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One knows so well the popular idea of health: the English country gentleman galloping after a fox - ...

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Oscar WildeMiscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man

If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat ...

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The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune it is also the basi...

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The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start fro...

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Feel body as luxury-- as a bird feels when shooting through the air, and as a child does always -- i...

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It is wisest to be impartial. If you have health, but are attached to it, you will always be afraid ...

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My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.

We have to design a health delivery system by actually talking to people and asking, 'What would mak...

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Human rights violations are nit accidents; they are not random in distribution or effect. Rights vio...

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Human rights violations are not accidents; they are not random in distribution or effect. Rights vio...

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Paul FarmerPathologies of Power: Health

When cattle ranchers clear rain forests to raise beef to sell to fast-food chains that make hamburge...

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Programmers have a saying: "garbage in, garbage out.

The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in ...

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I always had a philosophy which I got from my father. He used to say, 'Listen. God gave to you the g...

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This has been a novel about some people who were punished entirely too much for what they did. They ...

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As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know heal...

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Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.

Because of the president's leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health...

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Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.

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

We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the...

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I had the worst birthday party ever when I was a child because my parents hired a pony to give rides...

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I burned sixty calories. That should take care of a peanut I had in 1962.

Have you noticed when you go on a diet the first thing you lose is your temper.

Ask any woman and she'll tell you: health care for women is more expensive than it is for men. In fa...

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A society no more exists for the satisfaction of human needs, than a plant exists for its own health...

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Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical ex...

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I feel blessed that I haven't seen or felt real pain to be immune to it. But I am dreading the time ...

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The healthy man is the thin man. But you don’t need to go hungry for it: Remove the flours, starches...

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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that yo...

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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that yo...

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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that yo...

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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that yo...

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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that yo...

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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that yo...

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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that yo...

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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that yo...

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Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medic...

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Happiness is nothing but good health and freedom, and money is the single best way you can buy your ...

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I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I ...

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But I see nothing miraculous about it. Nothing makes one as healthy as happiness, and there is no gr...

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Stefan ZweigLetter from an Unknown Woman and Other Stories

I think first and foremost everybody should understand that Canadians are strongly committed to the ...

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But he could not call the doctors at the leprosarium. They would return him to Louisiana. They would...

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Stephen R. DonaldsonThe Chronicles of Thomas Covenant

Well, first let me say that I think health care reform is important. It has to be a priority. And ou...

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Soaring prescription drug costs have placed a tremendous strain on family budgets. They have also im...

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When all you know is pain you don’t know that that is not normal. It is not a woman’s lot to suffer,...

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A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good con...

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A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good con...

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I thought... I thought you might..." "Help you? By my grove, I am helping you. You're not starving a...

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When I go back to Texas, I travel the state, and I see people all the time who come up to me, men an...

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

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

Personal finances are like people’s personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious ...

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Thomas KeneallySearching for Schindler: A Memoir