“The mortal enemies of man are not his fellows of another continent or race; they are the aspects of the physical world which limit or challenge his control, the disease germs that attack him and his domesticated plants and animals, and the insects that carry many of these germs as well as working notable direct injury. This is not the age of man, however great his superiority in size and intelligence; it is literally the age of insects.” MenWorldWellsAgeChallengesAnimalRaceEnemyLimitsDiseaseAspectDirectFellowsPlantSizeMortalsInjuryContinentsSuperiorityInsectsNotableGermsPlants And AnimalsMortal EnemiesDomesticated Animals Author:Warder Clyde Allee
“People say, "I have heart disease," not "I am heart disease." Somehow the presumption of a person's individuality is not compromised by those diagnostic labels. All the labels tell us is that the person has a specific challenge with which he or she struggles in a highly diverse life. But call someone "a schizophrenic" or "a borderline" and the shorthand has a way of closing the chapter on the person. It reduces a multifaceted human being to a diagnosis and lulls us into a false sense that those words tell us who the person is, rather than only telling us how the person suffers.” PeopleWayHumansHeartPersonsSufferingChallengesJusticeHuman BeingsStruggleDiseaseDiversitySocial JusticeIndividualityLabelsDiverseChaptersClosingDiagnosisPresumptionHeart DiseaseSchizophrenicLullsBorderlineShorthand Author:Martha Manning
“I enjoyed being president, but the campaign against Guinea worm [horrible disease] has opened up a completely new career that is challenging and unpredictable and adventurous - and very gratifying.” PresidentChallengesCareersDiseaseCampaignsHorribleEnjoyedUnpredictableWormsAdventurousGuineaNew CarNew Career Author:Jimmy Carter
“The real lesson of 9/11 that I think we have still to learn is that this is a world of interdependence, in which all of the challenges of environment and climate change, of jobs, of disease, of war and terrorism, are cross-border problems that cannot be met one nation at a time.” ThinkingWorldStillsWarRealProblemJobsNationsChallengesEnvironmentLessonsMetsDiseaseCrossesClimateClimate ChangeTerrorismBordersInterdependence Author:Benjamin Barber
“I know that, throughout the world, there are good men and women concerned with the greatest challenges facing society today - poverty, illiteracy, and disease.” KnowsMenWorldTodayChallengesPovertyDiseaseMen And WomenConcernedGood ManIlliteracySociety Today Author:Nelson Mandela
“The claim of alternative practitioners to not treat disease labels but the whole patient...allows alternative practitioners to live in a fool's paradise of quackery where they believe themselves to be protected from any challenges and demands for evidence.” BelieveWholeChallengesFoolDemandDiseaseEvidenceTreatsClaimsPatientAlternativesLabelsParadiseProtectedQuackery Author:Edzard Ernst
“One of the patients that really stands out for me was a middle-aged woman who actually had HIV in the early days, and helping her kind of come to terms with that. She had rather late-stage illness, but just helping her, sort of cope with the challenges of the disease and the infections and all that, but also her social issues, like, coming out to her family about the illness, and a very religious family.” KindHelpingSocialTermChallengesReligiousIssuesMiddleStageDiseaseLatePatientIllnessComing OutStanding OutSocial IssuesHivInfectionMiddle AgedReligious Family Author:Jill Stein
“Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation. Our challenge is to translate this extraordinary potential into meaningful change.” HumansProblemGivenChallengesPovertyCreativityDiseaseEnvironmentalExtraordinaryMeaningfulCapabilityTranslateTechnologicalUnemploymentUnlimitedDegradationUnprecedentedEnvironmental Degradation Author:Muhammad Yunus
“We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order. The Bible tells us that God did not originally make the world to have disease, hunger, and death in it. Jesus has come to redeem where it is wrong and heal the world where it is broken. His miracles are not just proofs that he has power but also wonderful foretastes of what he is going to do with that power. Jesus' miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantMindHeartOrderJesusNaturalChallengesWonderfulModernBrokenPromiseDiseaseMiracleHungerProofHealRestorationSuspensionNatural OrderHeal The World Author:Timothy Keller
“We are a caring nation, and our values should also guide us on how we harness the gifts of science. New medical breakthroughs bring the hope of cures for terrible diseases and treatments that can improve the lives of millions. Our challenge is to make sure that science serves the cause of humanity instead of the other way around.” WayShouldScienceValuesHumanityNationsCausesChallengesMillionsTerribleDiseaseAccountsCaringGuidesMedicalCuresTreatmentBreakthroughHarnessMedical Breakthroughs Author:George W. Bush
“The study of the human brain and its disease remains one of the greatest scientific and philosophical challenges ever undertaken.” HumansChallengesBrainStudyDiseasePhilosophicalRemainsHuman Brain Author:Floyd E. Bloom
“In an age of interdependence, global citizenship - based on trust and sense of shared responsibility - is a crucial pillar of progress. At a time when more than one billion people are denied the very minimum requirements of human dignity, business cannot afford to be seen as the problem. Rather, it must work with governments and all other actors in society to mobilize global science, technology and knowledge to tackle the interlocking crises of hunger, disease, environmental degradation and conflict that are holding back the developing world.” PeopleWorldHumansProblemGovernmentAgeActorsChallengesResponsibilityTechnologyProgressInspireConflictDiseaseDignityCrisisEnvironmentalHungerBillionsDevelopingCrucialDeniedMinimumProvokingRequirementsCitizenshipDegradationPillarsHuman DignityInterdependenceHolding BackEnvironmental DegradationScience TechnologyShared Responsibility Author:Kofi Annan
“Challenge is the core and the mainspring of all human activity. If there's an ocean, we cross it; if there's a disease, we cure it; if there's a wrong, we right it; if there's a record, we break it; and finally, if there's a mountain, we climb it.” IfsInspirationalHumansChallengesBreakRecordsActivityMountainDiseaseOceanCrossesPerseveranceCoreCuresClimbsHuman Activity Author:James Ramsey Ullman
“We cannot confront the massive challenges of poverty, hunger, disease and environmental destruction unless we address issues of population and reproductive health” ChallengesPovertyIssuesDiseaseDestructionEnvironmentalHungerPopulationAddressesMassiveReproductive HealthEnvironmental Destruction Author:Thoraya Obaid