“China and other members should join efforts to combat serious infectious disease, such as bird flu. To enhance the cooperation on the prevention of bird flu is an important target of the organization, which includes Russia, China and four Central Asian states.” ShouldImportantStatesEffortFourSeriousMembersDiseaseBirdOrganizationChinaRussiaTargetCombatCooperationAsianFluPreventionInfectious DiseasesBird Flu Author:Wen Jiabao
“. . . the solution is not to toss youthful offenders into jail or prisons. We long ago recognized alcoholism to be a disease, and abondoned efforts to treat alcoholics simply by locking them up.” LongWarEffortDrugDiseaseSolutionsTreatsPrisonJailUsersLong AgoAlcoholismAlcoholicsTossOffenders Author:Tom McCall
“Confiscation in any form is an unhealthy solution for a real disease. It amounts to telling men that because they are economically crippled, they must abandon all efforts to get well and allow the state to provide them with free wheelchairs.” MenWellsRealStatesFormPoliticsEffortEconomyAmountDiseaseSolutionsLiberalismAbandonUnhealthyCrippledGet WellWheelchairs Author:Fulton J. Sheen
“All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and ignorance, labor and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are all terms for greater or less degree of freedom.” MenCultureTermWealthEffortPovertyVirtueGreaterIgnoranceDiseaseDegreesLaborIncreaseInstinctHungerVicesImpulseLeisureWealth And Poverty Book:War and Peace Source: War and Peace
“The first step toward the management of disease was replacement of demon theories and humours theories by the germ theory. That very step, the beginning of hope, in itself dashed all hopes of magical solutions. It told workers that progress would be made stepwise, at great effort, and that a persistent, unremitting care would have to be paid to a discipline of cleanliness. So it is with software engineering today.” FirstsMadeWould BeCareTodayEffortStepsProgressHumourTheoryDisciplineDiseaseSolutionsPaidManagementWorkersDemonSoftwareEngineeringFirst StepsPersistentCleanlinessGermsReplacementsSoftware EngineeringGreat Effort Author:Fred Brooks
“My struggles have been around protecting our air quality, protecting people from mercury in fish. I was very involved in the effort to get the FDA to recognize that mercury in fish is a real health issue and the FDA, you know, needed to be on that. But they were very tight with the fishing industry and did not want the public to be aware in the same way that they later didn't want the public to be aware of the problems with Vioxx, and they sat on the studies for many years and allowed 140,000 people to develop heart disease.” PeopleKnowsWayWantYearsHeartHas BeensRealProblemEffortQualityStruggleStudyIssuesAirIndustryNeededInvolvedDiseaseFishesSatFishingMercuryHeart DiseaseFdaMy StruggleHealth IssuesAir Quality Author:Jill Stein
“The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.” ShouldGovernmentLiteraturePerfectEffortProgressDiseaseRespectResearchSpreadFederal GovernmentTomatoes Author:Andy Rooney
“We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change the world, despite our gifts and our unstinting efforts, our most extravagant hopes. We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep--it's as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out of windows or drown themselves or take pills; more die by accident; and most of us, the vast majority, are slowly devoured by some disease or, if we're very fortunate, by time itself.” IfsWorldWritingBookDiesSleepSimplePartyEffortStruggleOur LivesDiseaseOrdinaryWindowMajorityAccidentsDespiteFortunateOur FamilyChanging The WorldCanadaAbandonPillsExtravagant Book:The Hours: A Novel Source: The Hours: A Novel
“Whenever Nature's bounty is in danger of exhaustion, the chemist has sought for a substitute. The conquest of disease has made great progress as a result of your efforts. Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation. Waste materials, formerly cast aside, are now being utilized.” LooksMadeScienceNationsLevelsResultsEffortProgressDangerMaterialsCivilizationDiseaseWasteCapacityRaisedCastsProductiveSubstitutesChemistryConquestExhaustionChemistBountyGreat Progress Author:Calvin Coolidge
“All disease, at some period or other of its course, is more or less a reparative process, not necessarily accompanied with suffering: an effort of nature to remedy a process of poisoning or of decay, which has taken place weeks, months, sometimes years beforehand, unnoticed.” YearsSometimesSufferingCoursesProcessEffortTakenWeekMonthsPeriodsDiseaseDecayRemedyNursingUnnoticedPoisoning Book:Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not Source: Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not