“The importance of heart health became very real for me when my father died of heart disease seven years ago. Having experienced the loss first hand, I am inspired to do everything I can to break the cycle and prevent families from losing loved ones to this preventable disease.” YearsFirstsHeartI CanRealHandsFatherLossBreakDiseaseLosingYears AgoImportanceDiedSevenInspiredCyclesLoved OnesSeven YearsHeart DiseaseFather DiedLosing A Loved OneMy Father Died Author:Monica Potter
“For the first time ever we are capable of removing abject poverty, illiteracy and the diseases of poverty from the human condition. The current intensification of global economic integration has demonstrated that there is enough knowledge, technology and capital to bring development to all the people of the world.” PeopleWorldFirstsHumansEnoughPovertyTechnologyEconomicConditionsDevelopmentDiseaseCapableFirst TimeCurrentsHuman ConditionIntegrationIlliteracyEconomic Integration Author:Clare Short
“Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.” FirstsLiteratureDiseaseComparisonSexually Author:Neil Gaiman
“Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture room or read from the book. See, and then reason and compare and control. But see first.” FirstsBookReasonRoomsHeardDiseaseMedicineCompareConceptionClassroomLecturesLecturingPractice Of Medicine Author:William Osler
“This Congress did more to uplift education, more to attack disease in this country and around the world, and more to conquer poverty than any other session in all American history, and what more worthy achievements could any person want to have? For it was the Congress that was more true than any other Congress to Thomas Jefferson's belief that: 'The care of human life and happiness is the first and only legitimate objective of good Government.'” WorldWantFirstsHumansPersonsCountryGovernmentCareBeliefEducationPovertyDiseaseAchievementCongressWorthyObjectivesAround The WorldConquerUpliftingHuman LifeAmerican HistorySessionLife And Happiness Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“The television reports gave me my first inkling of a world beyond my own, a world that wasn't fair or equal, a world of poverty, war, disease and famine. But I also realized that this state of affairs wasn't necessarily a given, and that we have it in our power to make a difference, to make the world a better place for all. We have that choice. One thing's for sure, though - if we do nothing, it will be a given.” IfsWorldFirstsWarStatesMotivationalChoicesGivenDifferencesMy OwnPovertyOne ThingTelevisionEqualDiseaseFairsAffairMaking A DifferenceReportsBetter PlaceFamine Author:Chrissie Wellington
“I first found out I had cancer on my eye and lost an eye to this disease when I was 16, and I've since had cancer in my kidneys and pancreas and a host of other areas.” FirstsEyeFoundLostDiseaseAreasCancerHostKidneysPancreas Author:Tom Rath
“I am never very forward in offering spiritual consolation to any one in distress or disease. I believe that such resources, to be of any service, must be self-evolved in the first instance. I am something of the Quaker's mind in this, and am inclined to wait for the spirit.” MindFirstsBelieveSelfSpiritualSpiritI BelieveWaitingDiseaseResourcesInstanceOfferingDistressConsolationQuaker Book:Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Source: Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge