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“In the wealthiest nation on Earth – no illness or accident should lead to any family’s financial ruin.”

Should Earth Nations Health Financial Illness Accidents Ruins

Author:Barack Obama

“Health is my expected heaven.”

Heaven Health Expected

Book:The Complete Works of John Keats

Source: The Complete Works of John Keats

“If you get health, then you have opportunity for literacy. Health first, then literacy. Once you have literacy, then you have a chance to bring in the new tools of communication. Let people reach out and have access to the latest advances.”

People Ifs Firsts Opportunity Chance Health Communication Tools Access Reach Out Literacy

Author:Bill Gates

“The reason doctors are so dangerous is that they believe in what they are doing.”

Believe Reason Dangerous Health Doctors

Author:Robert S. Mendelsohn

“Health coverage for regular citizens isn't mandated by the Constitution, but we're obligated to provide adequate medical care for prisoners, whatever the cost.”

Care Health Citizens Cost Constitution Prison Medical Prisoner Adequate Coverage Medical Care Health Coverage

Author:Jim Riley

“Every woman should be in control of the decisions that affect her own health.”

Should Decision Health

Author:Barack Obama

“Before healing others, heal yourself”

Healing Health Heal

Author:Laozi

“All healthy men have thought of their own suicide”

Men Health Healthy Suicide Suicidal Thoughts

Author:Albert Camus

“Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.”

Health Healthy Sober Frugality Industrious Frugal Studious

Book:The Life and Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin

Source: The Life and Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin

“Health is the requisite after morality”

Health Morality

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“I eat really healthy, and if I'm tired, I take a nap.”

Ifs Health Healthy Tired Health Care Naps I'm Tired

Author:Casper Van Dien

“Because we are interested in promoting wellness, we will integrate medicine with performing arts, arts and crafts, agriculture, recreation, nature, and social service.”

Art Social Health Medicine Cancer Crafts Performing Wellness Agriculture Promoting Recreation Integrating Social Service Performing Arts Acupuncture Arts And Crafts

Author:Patch Adams

“Ionizing radiation may well be the most important single cause of cancer, birth defects, and genetic disorders... The stakes for human health are very, very high in radiation matters. It is essential that people take no chance that conflict-of-interest is producing radiation databases which...cannot be trusted.”

“It [The Gesundheit Institute] also won't separate the healing arts. All of them work together - traditional medicine and surgery with acupuncture, homeopathy, etc. We want to make the hospital a place a person can't wait to come to, whether they are working there or being there as a patient. Because we are interested in promoting wellness, we will integrate medicine with performing arts, arts and crafts, agriculture, recreation, nature, and social service. Those are some skeletal parts.”

“World Health Day is an opportunity to highlight the problem, but above all, to stimulate action. It is an occasion to call on all partners - governments, international donors, civil society, the private sector, the media, families and individuals alike - to develop sustainable activities for the survival, health and well-being of mothers and children. On this World Health Day, let us rededicate ourselves to that mission.”

“Everything is now for sale. Even those areas of life that we once considered sacred like health and education, food and water and air and seeds and genes and a heritage. It is all now for sale.”

Water Air Health Areas Sacred Seeds Heritage Genes Commodification Health And Education

Author:Maude Barlow

“I do care a great deal about the environment but my real work and my greatest challenge is trying to overcome deceits that end up jeopardizing public health and safety.”

Trying Real Ends Care Challenges Deals Environment Health Overcoming Safety Deceit Public Health Real Work Health And Safety I Do Care

Author:Erin Brockovich

“You cannot tackle hunger, disease, and poverty unless you can also provide people with a healthy ecosystem in which their economies can grow.”

People Grows Poverty Economy Health Healthy Disease Hunger Ecosystems World Hunger Hunger And Poverty

Author:Gro Harlem Brundtland

“Never have so many had such broad and advanced access to health care. But never have so many been denied access to health.”

Care Health Access Health Care Broads Denied

Author:Gro Harlem Brundtland

“Ill health is an important factor that forces the poor to remain poor. If they make a little bit of money, one episode of illness can wipe them out.”

Ifs Littles Important Force Bits Poor Health Little Bit Ill Illness Factors Episodes Wipe Ill Health

Author:Zafrullah Chowdhury

“Demand that your government pays more attention. It's immoral that people in Africa die like flies of diseases that no one dies of in the United States. And the more disease there is, the more political unrest there will be, leading to more Darfurs, which the U.S. will have to pay to fix.”

People States Government Political Dies United Pay Attention United States Health Demand Disease Immoral Unrest World Health Darfur Global Health

Author:William J. Clinton

“Social entrepreneurs are married to a vision of, for example, a better way of helping young people grow up or of delivering global healthcare. They simply will not stop because they cannot be happy until their vision becomes the new pattern.”

People Way Helping Young Social Grows Vision Growing Up Example Health Married Entrepreneur Patterns Healthcare Better Ways Delivering Social Entrepreneurship

Author:Bill Drayton

“If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right?”

Ifs Humans Enough Care Health Human Rights Access Health Care

Book:Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor

Source: Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor

“It's important for people of color to link up with issues around globalization, food security, health, the environment.”

People Important Issues Environment Security Color Health Links Globalization Food Security

Author:Danny Glover

“The International Declaration of Human Rights says the right to housing, health, education should be guaranteed to everyone. The moment these things are provided, we will have a different world order and nuclear weapons will become less of a threat.”

“Well-fed people can enhance their dignity, their health and their learning capacity. Putting resources into social programs is not expenditure. It is investment.”

People Wells Social Health Resources Capacity Program Dignity Investment Feds Expenditures Social Programs

Author:Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

“The worst enemy of humanity is U.S. capitalism. That is what provokes uprisings like our own, a rebellion against a system, against a neoliberal model, which is the representation of a savage capitalism. If the entire world doesn't acknowledge this reality, that the national states are not providing even minimally for health, education and nourishment, then each day the most fundamental human rights are being violated.”

“The welfare and the future of our societies depend on our capacity to remain mobilized so as to improve the health of every mother and child.”

Children Mother Health Depends Capacity Welfare Our Society Mother And Child

Author:Jean Ping

“Kids are dying from diarrhea ... that just shouldn't be in this day and age, and it's that kind of thing that needs to be changed. Enough is enough”

Needs Kind Enough Kids Age Dying Changed Health This Day Enough Is Enough Diarrhea

Author:Brad Pitt

“Free education and health care are essential for the welfare of the population.”

Care Health Essentials Population Health Care Welfare Free Education

Author:Jose Ramos-Horta

“Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.”

Social Interest Worst Health Ill Vested Interests Anti Social Ill Health

Book:George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

Source: George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

“I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.”

Persons Happens Action Community Health Things Happen Community Action

Author:Studs Terkel

“I believe that humanity has an uphill battle to wage in its fight to attain real health, and I honestly believe - from hard-earned experience - that homeopathy can offer some solution to this problem.”

Believe Real Hard Problem Humanity Fighting I Believe Health Battle Offers Solutions Honestly Problems And Solutions Solution To A Problem Homeopathy Uphill Battles

Author:George Vithoulkas

“Think health, talk health, visualize health and better health will be your reward.”

Thinking Health Rewards

Author:Paavo Airola

“You can find examples of how little we value ourselves everywhere you look. The signs on the front of the convenience stores where Stephen lives in Florida tell the story. Beer, ice, bread and milk are the big come-ons. The order of the words varies, but beer and ice are always two of the top four staples for sale. If we were all taking care of ourselves, wouldn't the convenience stores compete for our dollars with signs that read "Fruit, Vegetables, Bread, Milk"?”

Ifs Looks Littles Two Stories Bigs Care Values Order Four Fronts Example Health Dollars Fruit Stores Bread Ice Beer Vegetables Milk Florida Convenience Vary Staples

Author:Bernie Siegel

“The witch doctor succeeds for the same reason all the rest of us succeed. Each patient carries his or her own doctor inside him or her. They come to us not knowing that truth. We are at our best when we give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work.”

Giving Reason Chance Knowing Health Succeed Doctors Patient Carrie Witch Not Knowing Doctor Who Witch Doctors

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“My contention is that as long as you have other faculties-the emotional, psychological, intuitive faculties-you haven't lost yourself or even diminished yourself. Don't be ashamed when you're physically limited or dysfunctional; don't think that you're any less because of your condition. In fact, I feel I am even more myself than I was before I got this illness because I have been able to transcend many of the psychological and emotional limitations I had before I developed ALS.”

Source: Morrie In His Own Words: Life Wisdom From a Remarkable Man

“Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind; nor can the material senses bear reliable testimony on the subject of health.”

Mind Matter Conditions Subjects Materials Health Bears Senses Testimony

Author:Mary Baker Eddy

“It must never be lost sight of what observation is for. It is not for the sake of piling up miscellaneous information or curious facts, but for the sake of saving life and increasing health and comfort”

Source: Comfort Theory and Practice: A Vision for Holistic Health Care and Research

“Veganism gives us all the opportunity to say what we "stand for" in life- the ideal of healthy, humane living. Add decades to your life, with a clear conscience as a bonus.”

“The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.”

People States Happiness Health Depends Foundation Health Care Ill Health

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“I've always enjoyed poor health”

Funny Poor Health Enjoyed Poor Health

Author:Taylor Caldwell

“I am capable, confident, intelligent, resilient and in charge. Health and happiness are my birthrights and I accept with gratitude.”

Happiness Accepting Acceptance Health Confidence Gratitude Capable Intelligent Intelligence Resilience Being Happy Thankful Resilient Birthright Cancer Survivor Confident Woman

Author:Kris Carr

“Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.”

Men Social Pleasure Objects Health Fame Conscience Expenses Fruition

Book:Coningsby: Or, The New Generation

Source: Coningsby: Or, The New Generation

“I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.”

Humor Funny Health Disease Humorous Doctors Medicine Physicians Diligence

Book:The works of John Donne: Dean of Saint Paul's, 1621-1631

Source: The works of John Donne: Dean of Saint Paul's, 1621-1631

“There comes a time in the spiritual journey when you start making choices from a very different place. And if a choice lines up so that it supports truth, health, happiness, wisdom and love, it's the right choice.”

“Material progress and a higher standard of living bring us greater comfort and health, but do not lead to a transformation of the mind, which is the only thing capable of providing lasting peace. Profound happiness, unlike fleeting pleasures, is spiritual in nature. It depends on the happiness of others and it is based on love and affection.”

“Never give in, never give in, never give in.”

“Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.”

“Provided one has the correct level of vitamin, mineral and nutritional input, the body can overcome disease.”

Body Levels Health Disease Overcoming Input Vitamins Minerals

Author:Linus Pauling